About the role
Develop, troubleshoot, and optimize key manufacturing processes utilized in APC plants. Deliver cost savings, quality improvements, and robust control of these processes. Be the go-to technical process expert for dryers, membranes, separation, and fractionation of APC products.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS: Education
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Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, or related field.
Experience
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- Bachelor’s degree with 5 or more years of experience in a manufacturing environment with an understanding of process control and development is required, or
- 5 to 8 years of relevant professional experience.
- Working knowledge of food or feed industry, food safety, and GMP is preferred.
- Process troubleshooting, designing and implementing new processes.
- Experience in Food, Agriculture, Dairy, BioProcessing or other process intensive industries.
- Previous Project Management or leadership experience.
- Experience with controls (PLC’s, DCS integration) at the very least control narrative documentation.
- JOB DUTIES: Identify opportunities for quality, cost, and delivery improvement. Develop solutions to mitigate issues and optimize Operations performance metrics.
- Utilize tools such as 8D problem solving, design of experiments, to understand critical input variables that affect process performance and identify viable changes, modifications, and improvements to reduce variation.
- Work with supervisors, managers, and employees to deploy improvement solutions, including procedural changes, line and equipment modifications, and SOP revisions, that are sustainable and consistent throughout all manufacturing facilities.
- Serve as a technical resource for applied statistics, process assessment techniques, cost determination, project planning, and control plan implementation and assist with engineering savings impact calculations.
- Lead plant and supplier trials in cooperation with Operations, Quality and R&D to access new technologies and processes.
- Design and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing, and inspection.
- Develop a deep technical knowledge of key APC processes such as drying, membranes, separation, and fractionation. Document and share this knowledge in a sustainable way.
- Understand APC processes globally and assist as needed in unifying best in class processes.
- Assist Engineering Manager in special projects as assigned.
- Willingness to travel and spend time in the processes at our manufacturing plants, on both day, weekends, and off-shifts as required.
- Coordinate with R&D personnel for use of the lab and pilot plant as needed.
- Write Capital expense requests, coordinate equipment ordering and supervise project work to ensure approved requests are completed within budget.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Comprehensive knowledge of process development tools and capability to statistically analyze complex manufacturing processes. Ability to design new processes and optimize existing manufacturing processes.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret data to make decisions.
- Above average skills in Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Approximately 25% domestic travel.
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