Job Description: Process & Product Development Engineer

Description:

In this role, the Chemical Engineer contributes to providing innovative and cost-effective solutions, involving the development or enhancement of techniques, procedures, or products.

They play a pivotal role in planning, conducting, and evaluating approaches to meet project objectives in a timely manner.

The ideal candidate will have prior experience in developing and formulating the chemistry of new fluids, along with a strong foundation in organic and chemical chemistry.

Qualifications:

• Candidates should have expertise in equipment design, process engineering and food process scale up experience
• Candidates should enjoy hands on experimentation and demonstrate creativity to solve problems
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Food Engineering
• Must have equipment design, process development and optimization experience
• Food Industry experience required (minimum 1-2 years experience)
• Experience of using design software and 3D modeling
• Legally authorized to work in the United States
• Willing to travel (mostly domestic) for trial runs
• Knowledge of process qualification, validation in the food industry IQ, OQ, PQ, FDA regulation
• Excellent project management, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated strong background to lead technically driven projects, and ability to effectively work in cross functional teams, meet deadlines, and prioritize multiple projects
• Accurately summarize, interpret, and review experimental data with adequate computer skills for data acquisition, data management and visualization of experimental results
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and organizational skills, with impeccable attention to detail
• Authorized to work in the US, and willing and able to work a flexible work schedule to meet the needs of the Company

Responsibilities:

• The core responsibility of the Food/Process Engineer is to develop, design, identify and/or optimize scale up processes and related equipment to support production.
• This role will focus on understanding the key food processing technologies, product considerations and processes to effectively scale products
• Lead planning and execution of projects related to process equipment selection and scale-up
• Assist in identifying and organizing requirements and developing relevant product specifications
• Create and maintain product documentation
• Provide staff training as required
• In collaboration with internal stakeholders develop product specifications
• Analyze, design, develop and maintain products and assist in their commercialization
• Explain complicated chemistry issues to co-workers having no background in chemistry
• Complete lab work and transfer new technology to the field
• Design and develop products that exhibit sustainability improvements
• Design, implement, and execute laboratory tests, document results and develop internal and external customer presentations
• Conduct or participate in technical reviews of requirements, results and specifications
• Assign, direct and review work of technicians and provide guidance
• Author technical reports, papers, articles, and presentations
• Keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets
• Adopt new practices readily to develop innovative, sustainable and low-cost products
• Maintain familiarity with company technology, organization and business
• Explore and test various food forming techniques to closely replicate the required sensory attributes of the product
• Design/identify new equipment to meet the changing needs of the scale of the operations and involved unit operations
• Identify partnerships/collaborators to test suitable equipment for identified unit operations and conduct feasibility trials
• Self-starter – identifying and procuring resources needed for fabrication, development etc
• Managing and communicating external contract firms, vendors, suppliers for fabrication and development work
• Optimize the process design and effectively scale operation to meet production goals
• Document activities as defined by company policies and provide regular updates to the project team and management on project timelines and deliverables
• Lead/support the installation and qualification of equipment according to the GMP guidelines
• Independently draft relevant technical documentation such as SOPs to support operation and training of equipment
• Assist in the setup of established process in the facility
• Develop project justification and proposals including providing input for capital planning process
• Work cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, R&D and Quality team to achieve operational excellence
• Train and supervise team members to perform project activities
• Manage draft documentation, technical information, and technology transfer utilizing company’s data management systems and tools
• Preparation of invention disclosures and other IP documentation as required