# Plant Engineer

The Plant Engineer is responsible for optimizing and improving manufacturing processes to ensure safety, efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness in line with operational goals. This role supports continuous improvement initiatives, monitors plant performance metrics, and implements process enhancements across assigned production areas. The Plant Engineer will lead the planning, coordination, and execution of maintenance activities for their assigned plant assets, working closely with plant technicians to ensure reliability, minimize downtime, and extend equipment life. Essential Duties and Responsibilities (to include but not limited to) Analyze, design, and optimize manufacturing processes to improve safety, efficiency, product quality, and throughput. Monitor process performance and key metrics to identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Lead and participate in root cause analysis (RCA) for process and equipment failures, quality deviations, and performance issues. Develop and implement corrective and preventive actions to reduce downtime and improve reliability. Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation, including process flow

- **Id**: 3994063
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/aak-plant-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Newark, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:36:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T06:07:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4229
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Food & Beverages, Food Ingredients

## Company

- **Id**: 1892251
- **Name**: AAK
- **Domain**: aak.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/aak-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Cornerstone

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **CAPA** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T00:36:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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