Process Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Evaluate and improve processes in manufacturing systems.
• Continuous review of existing processing equipment and procedures for relevance and efficiency, formulate solutions when shortfalls are noted.
• Maintain reliable and safe manufacturing systems while improving production rates, efficiencies, yields, costs, and changeovers.
• Work with Sales, R&D, Purchasing, Production and Quality to ensure successful conversion of small-scale pilot plant process to commercially viable production.
• Create and maintain master recipes and control recipes in the systems (SAP/WinCC).
• Provide technical input for recipe management and equipment selection from initial recipe development to scale-up to commercial production.
• Improve manufacturing process capability and production capacity while maintaining and improving quality standards.
• Develop and implement systems that optimize all phases of manufacturing process.
• Project Leader to improve quality and efficiency of manufacturing process.
• Perform new ingredient testing.
• Collect, record, transcribe data and publish report.
• Work with Production, QA, R & D and Maintenance groups to review records and data to find root causes of non-conforming production and develop corrective actions.
• Provide suggestions during incident investigations (e.g., Customer Complaint, product defect).
• Provide input, when necessary, on Food Safety, GMP and HACCP.
• Provide engineering and/or technical support for all factory floor systems, to include working with maintenance department to help troubleshoot and resolve known issues (including but not limited to PLC control system).
• Participate or lead in validation and commissioning of new and modified equipment.
• Develop, implement, and document novel and creative solutions to complex problems with various system dynamics.

Specific Experience and Key Knowledge Requirements

• 1-7 years’ experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge and /or specialized training in HACCP, GMPs and SQF.
• Knowledge of Aseptic (HTST) Processing Systems and requirements.
• Knowledge of HMI, SCADA and data archiving systems.
• Knowledge of troubleshooting Ladder Logic Programming or PLC control programming.