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Employment type:
Full time
Experience required:
Intermediate
Salary
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About the company:
We are a team of growers, plant scientists, engineers, artists, foodies and plant romantics working to improve the lives of plants, people, and the planet. We currently operate in South San Francisco, CA, and Laramie, WY. Our new Compton, CA site set to open in 2021 will be the world’s first, high-capacity indoor vertical farm.
Plenty believes food justice is social justice. Equal access to healthy, nutritious food is fundamental to a quality life. We build farms in communities that need better access to food and jobs. Plenty provides living-wage, year-round jobs along with flavorful, nutrient-rich food to the communities we serve. We use automation and robotics so machines do the backbreaking labor while people perform new kinds of skilled agricultural, science and high-tech jobs.
Now is the time to help Plenty achieve its mission to feed the world healthy food in a sustainable way. We are a start-up with expanding career growth opportunities.
We are actively seeking those who embody our core values: find a way, down to earth, & grow together. These values guide how we work together as teammates, approach innovation and engage with customers. Does this sound like you? Join the mission as we improve human and planetary health by increasing access to craveable fruits and vegetables.
At Plenty, we’re on a mission to give people in local communities everywhere access to the freshest, most amazing tasting produce possible. And to do so in a way that’s better for the planet. The people and teams who make up Plenty are at the core of how we do that.
We are building out a team of engineers to tackle problems that reimagine the way food is grown. In this role, you will work closely with internal Operations and Engineering teams to drive process improvements, standardize workflows, and improve overall factory efficiency. We are looking for someone who has a customer-first and analytical mindset, is proactive in seeking bottlenecks and factory pain points, and has experience in working in cross-functional environments.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with the Production, Maintenance, Sanitation, Quality, and Grower teams to identify areas of improvement and generate solutions
- Communicate with responsible cross-functional teams for projects, highlighting issues and driving projects to completion
- Work to minimize factory downtime and apply Lean principles to reduce waste in operations
- Support troubleshooting of processes and equipment, and assist with knowledge transfer to production
- Organize and conduct trials to ensure optimization of current and new processes
- Create detailed manufacturing instructions to document new processes
- Design production workstations for efficiency and ergonomics
- Ensure all workers are fully compliant with all relevant safety/food safety rules and standards
What We’re Looking For
- 2+ years of experience in a production setting
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Experience with HMIs or other production systems
- Experience in reviewing and editing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other technical documents
- Experience in validating new equipment and fixtures for their functionality and usability prior to implementation on the production floor
- Experience in supporting NPI initiatives of the facility
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Basic knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint
- Knowledge of 5S, Lean Six Sigma
- Experience with Jira or other project management software is a plus
- Experience with SPC is a plus
- Expected domestic travel 10-20%
About Plenty
We are building out a team of engineers to tackle problems that reimagine the way food is grown. In this role, you will work closely with internal Operations and Engineering teams to drive process improvements, standardize workflows, and improve overall factory efficiency. We are looking for someone who has a customer-first and analytical mindset, is proactive in seeking bottlenecks and factory pain points, and has experience in working in cross-functional environments.
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