Engineering Technician

The North America team is currently looking for an Engineering Technician on 1st shift to join our Taylorville, IL facility.

The Engineering Technician provides technical support to manufacturing engineers throughout the design, sustainability, and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes within the facility. This role includes assisting in developing layouts or floor plans, conducting tests, and troubleshooting equipment. The technician will collaborate with manufacturing and quality engineers to identify various opportunities related to safety, quality, and continuous improvement to enhance manufacturing processes. Furthermore, this position plays a crucial role in ensuring a safe working environment.

Your Impact

• Support Equipment Design and Testing :

Collaborate with design and manufacturing engineers during the design and testing phases of new or existing production equipment and systems. Ensure solutions meet safety, quality, operational requirements, and industrial standards. Assist design engineering for prototype development, conducting performance, and reliability as it relates to Taylorville production processes.

Assist in the setup, testing, and troubleshooting of manufacturing equipment and processes. Work closely with Manufacturing Engineers and Quality teams to implement new methods and technologies. Design and fabricate jigs and fixtures, including poka-yoke solutions, to enhance process reliability and reduce human error. Monitor production activities to ensure efficiency and compliance with quality standards.

Partner with the Quality Assurance team to address customer concerns by developing error-proofing techniques such as poka-yoke and designing specialized jigs and fixtures to help minimize production errors and ensure consistent delivery of high-quality products that meet or exceed customer expectations.

Actively promote and implement safety improvements based on employee suggestions and hazard identification. This includes installing appropriate guarding systems, optimizing material storage to prevent slips, trips, and falls, and developing visual safety management systems. Ensure these systems are regularly maintained and updated to support ongoing compliance and employee awareness.

Provide hands-on support to the Taylorville Maintenance team in performing tooling repairs to collaborate and help maintain equipment functionality, reduce downtime, and sustain efficient production operations.

Champion Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement initiatives by generating and implementing innovative ideas. Facilitate brainstorming sessions and cross-functional collaboration to integrate Lean principles into daily operations, driving efficiency, reducing waste, and fostering a culture of ongoing improvement.

Thoroughly document all safety and process improvement activities using established, reliable sources and standards. Ensure clear communication of changes and enhancements across relevant teams to maintain transparency and alignment.

Your Experience and Qualifications

Your Compensation and Benefits

Your Workplace

You will be working onsite role based in Taylorville, IL.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee works with or near to moving trucks, trailers and fork trucks and near large machinery and equipment daily. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. The employee is exposed to a variety of extreme conditions including temperatures ranging from 40°F to 105°F.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands or arms. The employee must be able to stand for up to twelve hours per day. The employee must frequently lift and / or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The employee must wear personal protective equipment (i.e. eye protection, hearing protection, safety shoes, gloves, sleeves, etc.)

Join us as we bring agriculture into the future and apply now!

Grain & Protein Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Grain & Protein Technologies is a leading global designer, manufacturer, and marketer of reliable, durable, and innovative equipment solutions for grain, seed, poultry, egg, and swine production. Generating $1.1 billion in annual revenue, the Company serves farmers and agribusiness managers in over 100 countries and currently operates 19 manufacturing facilities across 5 continents, employing more than 3600 people.

The Company goes to market with its strong portfolio of industry leading brands - GSI, Cumberland, AP, Tecno, Cimbria, Aerotech, Reventa, and Euroemme. With its Company Purpose of "Feeding the World Better", Grain & Protein Technologies emphasizes advancing smart technologies and offering innovative technical solutions to make farmers and agribusiness managers more productive and profitable in a sustainable way.