Sr. Process Engineer

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  About the role

  This position will report to the Plant Director. Travel Requirement: 15%. Location: Bakersfield, CA. FLSA Status: Exempt. Employment Category: Full Time - Regular.

  Generous Brands is dedicated to inspiring people to thrive through the power of vibrant nutrition through its leading brands, Bolthouse Farms, Health-Ade, and Evolution Fresh. Generous Brands partners with SAMBAZON to manufacture, distribute and sell SAMBAZON branded beverages. Bolthouse Farms is a pre-eminent provider of chilled juice, smoothies, shakes, and protein drinks. Health-Ade is the fastest growing kombucha brand, dedicated to creating bubbly beverages that boost gut health. Evolution Fresh is a premier cold-pressed juice brand with national availability. SAMBAZON beverages bottle the superfruit power of açaí in juice and natural energy cans. The company operates its North American business from facilities in Southern California, and the Greater Chicago Area. To learn more, please visit www.generousbrands.com.

  Then Responsibilities:

  Responsibilities

  The Senior Process Engineer is a hands-on manufacturing engineering role and senior technical leader responsible for improving the stability, repeatability, throughput, yield, quality, and cost performance of Bakersfield processing systems. The role works directly with Operations, Maintenance, Quality/Food Safety, Engineering, Continuous Improvement, and OEM/vendor resources to identify chronic process losses, determine root causes, set technical direction, and implement sustainable corrective actions. A critical responsibility is translating process needs into effective automation and control solutions. The Senior Process Engineer will work in close partnership with a Controls Engineer or Automation Specialist to develop functional requirements, troubleshoot control-related process issues, support and validate PLC/HMI, sequence, recipe, setpoint, interlock, instrumentation, and alarm changes, and confirm that improvements deliver the intended process result. This position provides the process expertise required to make controls changes effective and sustainable and is not intended to replace the controls/automation function.

  • Provide daily floor-level technical support for beverage processing systems, with emphasis on thermal, aseptic, blending, transfer, homogenization, evaporation/concentration, storage, and CIP operations.
  • Serve as the senior technical process owner for assigned systems, independently prioritizing high-value opportunities, establishing technical direction, and driving cross-functional actions through verified completion.
  • Troubleshoot complex process problems by evaluating product flow, temperatures, pressures, flow rates, levels, valve states, pump performance, instrumentation, control sequences, and interactions between unit operations.
  • Lead root-cause analysis of recurring downtime, process instability, slow cycles, startup losses, product losses, and chronic faults; drive corrective actions through implementation, verification, documentation, and sustained performance checks.
  • Analyze OEE and downtime losses, process cycle times, throughput constraints, yield, giveaway, product recovery, changeovers, sanitation/CIP time, startup/shutdown losses, utility consumption, and operating variability to establish improvement priorities.
  • Establish and maintain process centerlines, critical operating parameters, recipes, setpoints, control limits, startup/shutdown standards, troubleshooting guides, and other operating standards for key systems.
  • Develop process flow diagrams, control narratives, functional descriptions, operating philosophies, test protocols, and technical requirements for process and automation changes.
  • Work jointly with a Controls Engineer or Automation Specialist to review logic and sequence behavior; troubleshoot PLC/HMI and instrumentation-related issues; define required programming changes; support offline/online testing; and validate changes in production.
  • Optimize recipes, control loops, setpoints, alarm limits, interlocks, permissives, timing, valve sequences, and equipment coordination while maintaining appropriate change control, food-safety review, and documentation.
  • Own or support commissioning, startup, qualification, and performance verification of process modifications and new equipment, including punch lists, test protocols, and clear acceptance criteria.
  • Develop and maintain accurate SOPs, process specifications, centerlines, troubleshooting trees, change records, and technical training materials.
  • Partner with Quality/Food Safety and the appropriate process authority to ensure changes affecting critical food-safety parameters are formally reviewed, validated, approved, and documented before implementation.
  • Support sanitary design and optimization of hygienic piping, pumps, valves, tanks, instrumentation, heat exchangers, aseptic systems, and CIP systems; identify conditions contributing to fouling, poor cleanability, contamination risk, or excessive cleaning time.
  • Use process historian data, trends, alarms, operator observations, maintenance findings, statistical methods, and structured problem solving to identify sources of variation and verify that improvements remain stable across shifts, products, and operating conditions.
  • Provide technical input to capital projects when process changes or equipment upgrades are required, including scope development, design review, vendor evaluation, FAT/SAT support, startup, and performance validation.
  • Provide technical coaching and mentorship to engineers, technicians, operators, and maintenance personnel to strengthen plant troubleshooting capability and establish repeatable engineering standards and best practices.
  • Support planned shutdowns, major process interventions, production trials, startups, and urgent troubleshooting as business needs require.
  Requirements:

  Requirements

  • Provide daily floor-level technical support for beverage processing systems, with emphasis on thermal, aseptic, blending, transfer, homogenization, evaporation/concentration, storage, and CIP operations.
  • Serve as the senior technical process owner for assigned systems, independently prioritizing high-value opportunities, establishing technical direction, and driving cross-functional actions through verified completion.
  • Troubleshoot complex process problems by evaluating product flow, temperatures, pressures, flow rates, levels, valve states, pump performance, instrumentation, control sequences, and interactions between unit operations.
  • Lead root-cause analysis of recurring downtime, process instability, slow cycles, startup losses, product losses, and chronic faults; drive corrective actions through implementation, verification, documentation, and sustained performance checks.