Agricultural Engineer Job Description
Agricultural Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Agricultural Engineer Qualifications
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Education for Agricultural Engineer
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Agricultural Engineer Job Description
- Develops recommendations within established guidelines
- Applies existing applications to routine problems
- Produces and/or evaluates possible design solutions to improve cost, quality and performance based on specialized knowledge of engineering applications
- This may include possible involvement of other functional engineers, supply management and/or supplier personnel
- Learns and applies company engineering policies and practices
- Circulate packaging approval requests and get approval from all stakeholders for new packaging development opportunities
- Define and run required packaging tests on the packing line for new or modified packaging assessment before introduction
- Define packaging specifications (technical specification, BOM and packing instruction)
- Manage PAR Process
- Develop "small" local packaging such as co-pack under Packaging Specialist Senior supervision
- BS degree preferred, in Engineering, preferably in Mechanical or equivalent work experience
- Experience in technical customer support for customers and suppliers
- Ideal candidate will have agricultural or mechanical experience
- ProE/Creo experience preferred
- Metatarsal safety shoes required
- This position will spend approximately 30% time traveling to customer sites in Northern US and Canada to test field equipment
Agricultural Engineer Job Description
- Develop packaging laboratory tests (with external labs) to address new requirement or quality issue investigations (specific traction /compression test, resistance performance comparison tests, humidity barrier evaluations, packaging resistance to pressure/vacuum testing, and set up new quality control schemes.)
- Identify and prioritize plant improvements that are aligned to the Global Molecule / Technology Strategies
- Drive packaging standardization where applicable
- Monitor and enforce all applicable Packaging Regulations (local and international)
- Prepare & send packaging to official UN laboratory to get UN certifications
- Provide consulting to logistics, distribution centers and plants on blocking, bracing & securing of finished products in trucks, containers and rail shipments
- Evaluate Packaging material suppliers risks
- Manage and establish relationship with R&R process
- Support new product or presentation launches
- Product stewardship interaction and review
- Develop project scope and deliverables with our clients to ensure timely and efficient completion of tasks
- Coordinate project activities with our clients, vendors and contractors
- Perform field work at various agricultural/industrial facilities
- Assist with preparation of technical correspondence, project proposals, cost estimates, technical reports, work plans, and project specifications
- Build and maintain exceptional client relationships
- No more than 5 years of experience in engineering or environmental related field
Agricultural Engineer Job Description
- Comply with all Dangerous Goods regulations (Orange Book, IMDG and IATA)
- Lead packaging development projects
- Develop alternative suppliers for all packaging single sourcing
- Demonstration of Fastrac to end users in all applications
- Technical product sales support for the agricultural range to our UK dealer network
- The development and delivery of training material
- Working closely with key implement manufacturers to maximise exposure
- Compilation of customer feedback to assist sales, marketing and engineering teams
- Assistance with UK shows, exhibitions and dealer events
- Demonstration and Installation of Fastrac to end users in all applications
- Minimum 1 year experiene with Telematics Systems
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively communicate with project team members, regulators and clients
- Self-starter, flexible team player and willingness/ability to work on a wide variety of tasks
- Machinery Expert (maintenance) & Plant Resources - work with these roles to troubleshoot packing quality issues to ensure that the package and the packaging line are treated as a solidary system
- Quality Leaders - participate to quality investigation for packaging related incident
- Operation & Technologist - Machinery - work with these roles to run on-line tests to asses new or modified packaging
Agricultural Engineer Job Description
- Assistance with Poland & Baltics shows, exhibitions and dealer events
- Establish recommended pricing for contracting grower acreage
- Support quality control sampling of soil before signing grower contracts
- Scouting of fields for Integrated Pest Management, IPM
- Support harvest operations
- Support capital projects and budgetary control with identified savings
- Communicate with growers about cultural practices
- Provide training for harvest equipment operators
- Support seed saving operations at the Morton facility
- Support procurement of hybrid seed production
- Communications protocol experience and understanding required
- Minimum 1 year experience with Telematics Systems
- Project Leaders - interact to ensure up to date packaging documentation and align on-going projects
- Packaging Suppliers - get in close contact with the technical department of packaging suppliers to agree on packaging specification and any possible improvement
- Sourcing & Procurement Leaders/Experts – keep the team up to date about new packaging introduction and any packaging transition need
- A bachelor/ master degree in Packaging Science is preferred, although other technical degrees can be considered (e.g., material engineer, industrial engineer, mechanical engineer, chemical engineer)
Agricultural Engineer Job Description
- Administer policies/procedures in a manner conducive to positive employee relations while promoting safety awareness
- Prototype Robotics platform for agricultural applications
- Test and validate the robotic platforms for agricultural applications
- Prepare mission (flight) plans for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for data collection over agricultural farms
- Develop technology to aid autonomous navigation and data collection for ground and aerial robots
- Improve development processes and advance scientific research
- Use computer software to design equipment, systems, or structures
- Modify existing agricultural machinery to introduce electronics and software control system
- Test on lab and field for demonstrating improved functionality
- Support and coordinate for required certifications and standards
- Expertise in analyzing data
- English written / spoken is required
- Dangerous Goods Regulation Certified (all transport mode) is desirable
- Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering or related areas
- Image processing & tools
- Knowledge in machine learning and optimization techniques