Job duties & Responsibility

• Utilize engineering fundamentals to independently identify, propose, analyze, and design cost effective food processing technologies that drive growth, reduce costs, improve quality, and keep the company ahead of our competitors.
• Identify, evaluate, and develop detailed proposals for breakthrough new food processing technologies that can be applied within or across product categories.
• Collaborate with the manufacturing team to analyze, validate, and implement processing improvements to existing unit operations in the current manufacturing systems that result in annualized savings that exceed $200,000 per year.
• Identifying and troubleshooting chronic and sporadic losses and collaborate to drive them to zero using SPC, Six Sigma and Lean principles.
• Initiate new ideas and lead the design of manufacturing processes for new, high complex products.
• Identify and develop Engineering strategies for new initiatives, new product development, and new business development projects and assist the plants in its successful implementation.
• Develop the tools and methodology to effectively survey the food industry and identify emerging food process innovations that business should consider maintaining our competitive advantage.
• Determine process requirements and prepare thorough and accurate process specifications, design and conduct experiments to set process specifications.

Job requirement (education, experience, skill)

• ​Education/Academic: Engineering Degree with specialization in Chemical, Food, Mechanical or Food Science and Technology
• Language/Computer Proficiency: Good English speaking skills; basic excel, word, PowerPoint
• Behavioral Competencies: 
  • Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
  • Travels regularly internationally (up to 15-20% of time) including SE Asia, Europe, Asia.
• Work Experience
  • At least 10-12 years of relevant job experience with large MNC’s.
  • Experience expected to have resulted in a solid record of accomplishment.
  • Experience with Extrusion/Baking/UHT/dry/oil roasting processing and packaging.
  • Experience with at least one of the following processing operations: bakery, beverage, Snacks, spreads, edible nuts processing.
  • Extensive knowledge of food engineering fundamentals and applications, knowledge of statistics, design of experiments, problem solving techniques, engineering economics.