EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

• BS degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or other related engineering discipline - required
• 3 or more years of process engineering work experience; including Strong technical background – required
• Ability to travel 10-25% of time – required
• Experience working in Food Engineering
• Professional Engineer and/or Green Belt Certification
• Experience in Dairy Processing
• Experience with one or more of the following dairy unit operations or make processes: spray drying, evaporators, membrane filtration, fermentation, cheese make, or crystallization
• Experience working in or with manufacturing facilities
• Knowledge of foundational engineering and scientific principles
• Data-based analytical thinking; understanding of Statistical tools and methods
• Familiarity with analytical and physical characterization methods
  Salary range: $79,200 - $118,800 (in most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges)

The R&D Process Engineer will support process engineering activities across Land O’Lakes Dairy Foods product platforms and manufacturing sites. This position will leverage and grow their dairy processing knowledge to identify and implement cost savings projects by enabling manufacturing network optimization, material yield improvements, or quality improvement. In addition, this role will be tasked with supporting scale-up activities from pilot plant to manufacturing and will help define process design for new and revised products and processes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provides dairy process engineering knowledge support across Dairy Foods product platforms and manufacturing sites
• Analyzes manufacturing data and utilizes statistical methods to troubleshoot and/or identify opportunities to ensure manufacturing systems reliably deliver high quality products
• Applies engineering principles (mass & energy balances, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics) for scale-up and process design
• Identifies and documents product processing requirements and selection criteria for new process equipment
• Collaborates with Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Regulatory, other R&D functions, and external parties on projects and initiatives
• Executes projects related to cost savings, innovation, manufacturing network optimization, material yield improvements, and quality improvements to enable business topline growth
• Supports scale-up from pilot plant to manufacturing and defines process design for new, improved, or revised products and processes