Process Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Technical authority — Serve as the final technical authority for the design, scale-up, and optimization of unit operations across separations, liquid and dry powder handling, drying, and product manufacturing.
• Process performance — Own process KPIs (recovery, yield, throughput, purity, energy use, and reliability) lead data-driven troubleshooting and root-cause analysis to sustain and improve them.
• Scale-up & development — Lead process development from piloting through commercial scale, including mass and energy balances, scale-up calculations, and technology transfer.
• De bottlenecking & improvement — Identify and execute capacity, yield, and reliability improvements; drive continuous-improvement and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Equipment & design — Specify, evaluate, and commission process equipment — separations, evaporation/concentration, crystallization, dryers, and powder handling and packaging — and develop PFDs, P&IDs, mass balances, and equipment specifications.
• Capital projects — Provide process leadership for capital projects: basis of design, equipment selection, FAT/SAT, and commissioning and qualification support.
• Mentorship — Mentor and develop process and optimization engineers, building technical depth and consistent engineering practice across the team.
• Cross-functional partnership — Partner with operations, quality, R&D, automation (DeltaV), and maintenance to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient manufacturing.
• Safety & compliance — Embed process safety and food-safety / GMP requirements into process design and daily operation.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Chemical Engineering or a closely related discipline. 8+ years of process engineering experience in chemical, food / ingredient, biotechnology, or comparable manufacturing.
• Deep expertise in separations and solid–liquid processing (e.g., filtration, centrifugation, membrane separation, evaporation, crystallization) and in drying and dry powder handling.
• Demonstrated success scaling processes from pilot to commercial production.
• Strong command of mass and energy balances, unit-operations design, and process data analysis.
• Proven track record of driving measurable yield, capacity, and reliability improvements.
• Hands-on experience with PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specification, and commissioning.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering or related field.
• Experience with natural ingredients, food, nutraceutical, or fermentation-derived products.
• Spray drying, fluid-bed drying, and powder packaging experience.
• Familiarity with cGMP / FSMA and food-safety requirements.
• Experience with process control and automation (DeltaV) and statistical tools (SPC, DOE).
• Capital project leadership and Lean / Six Sigma background.