Erik Aidukaitis

Managing capital improvements across multiple facilities delivering safety and quality improvements, capacity expansions through new processing and packaging system improvements, and facilities upgrades. Improving energy efficiency through right sizing of equipment speeds and processes as well as energy and water recovery systems.

Engineering professional in managing capital projects with budgets of up to $75 million dollars that can work independently in a fast paced unclear project environment. Successful and skilled in communicating, managing and negotiating with all levels of plant and corporate: operations, management, finance, QA, R&D, tech services and directing efforts of preferred vendors, contractors, A/E’s and integrators. - Process and Packaging Systems Engineering and Automation - Infrastructure, Ammonia Refrigeration, Waste Water, Boiler systems installations and upgrades - Project Management - Multi Plant Engineering Leadership

Plant leadership team member providing technical leadership running a $50MM annual capital program and a maintenance team supporting a 24/7 maintenance department consisting of 54 maintenance technicians in a facility with over 480 employees manufacturing premium dairy products. Installation of Aseptic processing and packaging systems, upgrades to an anaerobic waste water including water reuse for cooling towers and sludge dewatering for sustainable systems design and operation, and technical leadership ensuring new product commercialization and plant operations reach metrics agreed to by the organization.

Plant leadership team member providing technical leadership running a $10MM annual capital program with 3 project engineers and a maintenance team leader supporting a 24/7 maintenance department consisting of 22 maintenance technicians.

Technical leader at Hidden Valley Manufacturing in Wheeling, Illinois responsible for managing a $5MM annual capital plan and a maintenance department in a high speed liquid bottling facility manufacturing Hidden Valley Ranch dressing and K.C. Masterpiece barbeque sauce.

Project manager and process system engineer responsible for developing process improvements and technical training for operators and maintenance technicians in the manufacturing of dry breakfast cereal manufactruing systems. Manufacturing both high shear extruded and jetzone puffed Cinnamon Toast Crunch products as well as low shear gun puffed Cheerios products.

Department manager responsible for operation and maintenance of a 5 day / 24 hour crew operating the industrial diamond manufacturing system. Lead engineer in charge of design of the next generation high temperature high pressure prismatic diamond manufacturing press.