Process & Product Development Engineer
at Grow Food Packing LLC
United States, North Carolina, USA -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 26 May, 2024 | Not Specified | 01 Mar, 2024 | 1 year(s) or above | Chemistry,Interpersonal Skills,Computer Skills,Creativity,Technical Reviews,Training,Presentations,Articles,Visualization,Deliverables,Operations,Unit Operations,Suppliers,Technical Documentation,Validation,3D Modeling,Staff Training,Equipment Selection | No | No |
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Description:
DESCRIPTION:
In this role, the Chemical Engineer contributes to providing innovative and cost-effective solutions, involving the development or enhancement of techniques, procedures, or products.
They play a pivotal role in planning, conducting, and evaluating approaches to meet project objectives in a timely manner.
The ideal candidate will have prior experience in developing and formulating the chemistry of new fluids, along with a strong foundation in organic and chemical chemistry.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Candidates should have expertise in equipment design, process engineering and food process scale up experience
- Candidates should enjoy hands on experimentation and demonstrate creativity to solve problems
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Food Engineering
- Must have equipment design, process development and optimization experience
- Food Industry experience required (minimum 1-2 years experience)
- Experience of using design software and 3D modeling
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
- Willing to travel (mostly domestic) for trial runs
- Knowledge of process qualification, validation in the food industry IQ, OQ, PQ, FDA regulation
- Excellent project management, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated strong background to lead technically driven projects, and ability to effectively work in cross functional teams, meet deadlines, and prioritize multiple projects
- Accurately summarize, interpret, and review experimental data with adequate computer skills for data acquisition, data management and visualization of experimental results
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and organizational skills, with impeccable attention to detail
- Authorized to work in the US, and willing and able to work a flexible work schedule to meet the needs of the Company
Responsibilities:
- The core responsibility of the Food/Process Engineer is to develop, design, identify and/or optimize scale up processes and related equipment to support production.
- This role will focus on understanding the key food processing technologies, product considerations and processes to effectively scale products
- Lead planning and execution of projects related to process equipment selection and scale-up
- Assist in identifying and organizing requirements and developing relevant product specifications
- Create and maintain product documentation
- Provide staff training as required
- In collaboration with internal stakeholders develop product specifications
- Analyze, design, develop and maintain products and assist in their commercialization
- Explain complicated chemistry issues to co-workers having no background in chemistry
- Complete lab work and transfer new technology to the field
- Design and develop products that exhibit sustainability improvements
- Design, implement, and execute laboratory tests, document results and develop internal and external customer presentations
- Conduct or participate in technical reviews of requirements, results and specifications
- Assign, direct and review work of technicians and provide guidance
- Author technical reports, papers, articles, and presentations
- Keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets
- Adopt new practices readily to develop innovative, sustainable and low-cost products
- Maintain familiarity with company technology, organization and business
- Explore and test various food forming techniques to closely replicate the required sensory attributes of the product
- Design/identify new equipment to meet the changing needs of the scale of the operations and involved unit operations
- Identify partnerships/collaborators to test suitable equipment for identified unit operations and conduct feasibility trials
- Self-starter – identifying and procuring resources needed for fabrication, development etc
- Managing and communicating external contract firms, vendors, suppliers for fabrication and development work
- Optimize the process design and effectively scale operation to meet production goals
- Document activities as defined by company policies and provide regular updates to the project team and management on project timelines and deliverables
- Lead/support the installation and qualification of equipment according to the GMP guidelines
- Independently draft relevant technical documentation such as SOPs to support operation and training of equipment
- Assist in the setup of established process in the facility
- Develop project justification and proposals including providing input for capital planning process
- Work cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, R&D and Quality team to achieve operational excellence
- Train and supervise team members to perform project activities
- Manage draft documentation, technical information, and technology transfer utilizing company’s data management systems and tools
- Preparation of invention disclosures and other IP documentation as required
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Responsibilities:
- The core responsibility of the Food/Process Engineer is to develop, design, identify and/or optimize scale up processes and related equipment to support production.
- This role will focus on understanding the key food processing technologies, product considerations and processes to effectively scale products
- Lead planning and execution of projects related to process equipment selection and scale-up
- Assist in identifying and organizing requirements and developing relevant product specifications
- Create and maintain product documentation
- Provide staff training as required
- In collaboration with internal stakeholders develop product specifications
- Analyze, design, develop and maintain products and assist in their commercialization
- Explain complicated chemistry issues to co-workers having no background in chemistry
- Complete lab work and transfer new technology to the field
- Design and develop products that exhibit sustainability improvements
- Design, implement, and execute laboratory tests, document results and develop internal and external customer presentations
- Conduct or participate in technical reviews of requirements, results and specifications
- Assign, direct and review work of technicians and provide guidance
- Author technical reports, papers, articles, and presentations
- Keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets
- Adopt new practices readily to develop innovative, sustainable and low-cost products
- Maintain familiarity with company technology, organization and business
- Explore and test various food forming techniques to closely replicate the required sensory attributes of the product
- Design/identify new equipment to meet the changing needs of the scale of the operations and involved unit operations
- Identify partnerships/collaborators to test suitable equipment for identified unit operations and conduct feasibility trials
- Self-starter – identifying and procuring resources needed for fabrication, development etc
- Managing and communicating external contract firms, vendors, suppliers for fabrication and development work
- Optimize the process design and effectively scale operation to meet production goals
- Document activities as defined by company policies and provide regular updates to the project team and management on project timelines and deliverables
- Lead/support the installation and qualification of equipment according to the GMP guidelines
- Independently draft relevant technical documentation such as SOPs to support operation and training of equipment
- Assist in the setup of established process in the facility
- Develop project justification and proposals including providing input for capital planning process
- Work cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, R&D and Quality team to achieve operational excellence
- Train and supervise team members to perform project activities
- Manage draft documentation, technical information, and technology transfer utilizing company’s data management systems and tools
- Preparation of invention disclosures and other IP documentation as require
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:1.0Max:2.0 year(s)
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Engineering Design / R&D
Mechanical Engineering
Graduate
Chemical, Engineering
Proficient
1
United States, USA