Expert Process Engineer

Nestlé - Anderson, IN

Full-time

Anderson, IN

Food Manufacturing

About the position

This position provides process engineering technical expertise to Technical & Production at Nestlé USA. The individual will focus on teaching, coaching, assessing, refining, implementing, and supporting continuous improvement systems to enhance business objectives and operational performance. Responsibilities include developing processes for manufacturing and packaging, performing validation evaluations, and writing/executing validation protocols.

Responsibilities

• Build Product & Process Mastership in Factory and Technical Application Group (TAG) teams
• Teach, coach and assess factory experts to build out their processing capabilities
• Provide guidance and mentoring to TAG team members to increase their understanding of the process on new product development
• Partner with R&D & vendors to develop training content for key processes
• Optimize & improve existing processes across manufacturing landscape
• Identify, organize, and conduct relevant process capability testing
• Develop or refine processing equipment standards and routines for existing equipment
• Ideate, assess and implement process-related continuous improvement opportunities
• Apply deep technical expertise to projects and challenges
• Partner with Engineering and R&D on development, installation and start-up of new processes
• Conduct pilot scale experiments, industrial scale trial runs, and first saleable production runs
• Develop or refine and document processing equipment standards and routines for new processes
• Collaborate with Corporate Engineering and R&D to establish project priorities, technical requirements, timelines and budgets
• Verify that new production lines are created in accordance with divisional standards during design/build phase
• Organize site acceptance testing of key equipment to verify technical performance criteria
• Lead or support commissioning, qualification and validation of new processing equipment/systems/lines.

Requirements

• B.A. or B.S. Degree required, preferably in Engineering or Operations related subject
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Improvement implementation or similar CI methodologies
• Minimum 8 years of engineering or processing experience in food and beverage operations/manufacturing
• Factory experience to provide credibility when working with Factory Managers and teams
• Deep understanding of factory operations, equipment, automation, maintenance, production strategies, and quality control processes
• Hands-on implementation with continuous improvement and proven consistent incremental results.

Nice-to-haves

• Project Management Experience
• Experience in incorporating safety in the process/equipment design

Benefits

• Inclusive workplace
• Commitment to diversity and equal employment opportunity
• Support for veterans and individuals with disabilities