Process Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a highly driven and hands-on Process Engineer to design, optimize, and scale food production processes across our operations. This role will play a critical part in improving efficiency, reducing waste, and ensuring consistent, high-quality output as we continue to grow and evolve our production footprint.

Responsibilities

• Design, improve, and scale food production processes across mixing, cooking, cooling, and packaging operations to drive throughput, consistency, and quality at scale.
• Lead the development of unified processes, SOPs, and best practices across multiple sites to ensure consistency, repeatability, and operational alignment; eliminate variation and build scalable systems that support growth.
• Drive a culture of operational excellence by leading structured continuous improvement initiatives (Lean, Six Sigma), focusing on waste reduction, labor efficiency, throughput optimization, and cost control.
• Analyze production, yield, and downtime data to identify trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities, and translate insights into actionable improvements that deliver measurable impact.
• Identify and resolve true root causes of production challenges, implementing sustainable, long-term fixes and building processes that prevent recurrence.
• Act as a change agent across operations, driving adoption of new processes, influencing stakeholders at all levels, and ensuring alignment between engineering, production, QA, and leadership teams.
• Identify opportunities to better leverage automation, equipment, and technology to improve efficiency, consistency, and labor optimization; partner with engineering and maintenance to implement more effective production solutions.
• Take ownership from concept through execution, driving implementation on the floor, validating results, and ensuring adoption and sustainability of improvements.
• Partner cross-functionally with QA, R&D, Maintenance, Culinary, and Operations to align on product quality, process capability, and execution standards.
• Support new product introductions from pilot through full-scale production, ensuring processes are robust, repeatable, and operationally efficient.
• Lead process validation efforts and develop clear, actionable documentation (SOPs, work instructions, control plans) to ensure consistent execution across teams and sites.
• Ensure all processes are designed and executed in compliance with HACCP, USDA/FDA, and GMP standards, embedding food safety into every stage of production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• 5–10+ years of experience in food or CPG manufacturing environments
• Bilingual Spanish (written and verbal) is highly preferred to effectively communicate and collaborate with frontline production teams
• Strong knowledge of food safety regulations and quality systems (HACCP, GMP, USDA/FDA)
• Proven experience with process optimization, line balancing, and production scaling
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable improvements
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and influence cross-functional teams
• Comfortable working both on the production floor and at a strategic level
• Experience in high-volume or commissary-style food production
• Exposure to automation, production technology, or equipment integration
• Background supporting scratch cooking or complex food processes
• Experience in multi-site operations

Qualifications

• Not specified

Skills

• Process optimization
• Line balancing
• Production scaling
• Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement frameworks
• Data analysis
• Project management
• Collaboration
• Automation, production technology, or equipment integration

Benefits

• Flexible work schedule
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Professional development opportunities

Pay

Salary Range: $115,000 - $130,000