Senior Plant Engineer

Senior Plant Engineer Guardian Energy Janesville has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Plant Engineer to join the team. This role provides technical and operational leadership for capital projects, process optimization, plant reliability, safety, and continuous improvement. The Senior Plant Engineer reports to the Plant Manager and works with plant leadership to improve profitability, strengthen operating discipline, and ensure safe, consistent, and compliant plant performance. Essential Functions and Basic Duties • Lead the identification, evaluation, prioritization, and execution of capital and continuous improvement projects that increase production, improve yield and efficiency, strengthen reliability, or reduce operating costs. Develop scope, business justification, budgets, schedules, risk assessments, implementation plans, and performance verification. • Analyze plant operating data and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including production volume, yield, uptime, quality, energy use, utility consumption, and operating cost. Maintain effective monitoring and reporting tools that identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities. • Provide senior-level technical support for process troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, debottlenecking, process control, and sustained corrective action. • Partner with the Plant Manager, Shift Leads, operators, maintenance, quality, and other functions to ensure safe and consistent operation across shifts in accordance with established standards and SOPs. • Coordinate internal resources, vendors, and contractors for plant trials, process changes, equipment modifications, commissioning, startup, and performance testing. • Lead the development, review, and continuous improvement of Standard Operating Procedures, operating limits, training materials, P&IDs, block flow diagrams, process narratives, and other engineering records. • Provide technical coaching and guidance to Shift Leads, operators, and less-experienced engineers; help build plant problem-solving and process knowledge. • Coordinate Process Safety Management implementation and execution with plant leadership, including Management of Change, Pre-Startup Safety Review, incident investigation, Process Hazard Analysis, chemical inventory, and labeling requirements. • Support compliance with EPA Title V, OSHA, FSMA, and other applicable regulatory requirements; help ensure process areas remain within established operating and environmental parameters. • Provide engineering leadership for planned shutdowns, including scope development, planning, scheduling, resource coordination, contractor support, execution, and startup readiness. • Serve as a technical and operational resource during plant upsets, outages, and other high-priority events, and provide Shift Lead coverage when business needs require and the individual is qualified. Occasional work outside the normal schedule may be required. • Participate in hiring, onboarding, training, performance feedback, work direction, and resolution of employee concerns in partnership with the Plant Manager. • Lead special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment This position requires the ability to work in an operating plant environment and occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. The role may require climbing stairs and ladders, entering production areas, wearing required personal protective equipment, and responding to plant needs outside normal business hours. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals to perform the essential functions.