Senior Process Engineer - Beverage

About the position

Bevi is on a mission to disrupt the beverage supply chain and replace single-use water bottles with smart water machines. Thousands of companies use Bevi to sustainably provide their employees with pure, sparkling, and flavored water at work. As the market leader in IoT-enabled beverage machines, we've raised over $160M in venture capital and we have grown tremendously each year since launch. In addition to maintaining hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development. We are seeking a Senior Process Engineer - Beverage to join Bevi's manufacturing and quality team. This role reports to the Director of Manufacturing and Quality Engineering, and will be responsible for bringing a diverse portfolio of beverages to life in a manufacturing environment as well as improving, and maintaining existing portfolio of Bevi's flavor/concentrate products. The Senior Process Engineer - Beverage will work closely with supply chain and R&D teams to launch new products and identify and prioritize targets for improvement at our co-packer locations. The ideal candidate will embrace the Bevi core values, learning new skills, working across disciplines, and driving issues to completion.

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing and quality aspects of development and commercialization of new products to ensure manufacturing and quality requirements are met from pilot to full-scale production, ensuring efficiency, consistency, and quality
• Act as the technical liaison between Beverage R&D, Product, Supplychain, and co-packers to ensure requirements are met and production issues are addressed
• Implements process improvements from raw materials through finished packaging in the areas of cost, yield, throughput, and quality
• Act as the technical lead on all changes related to co-packer facility (formula changes, process changes, label changes, equipment changes, etc)
• Lead kaizen and other continuous improvement projects with co-packers to increase capacity and yield through line automation and other cost justifying modifications
• Ensure all products meet regulatory standards, food safety, and quality guidelines for target markets
• Ensure excellent manufacturing through tight process controls, preventive measures and timely corrective action implementation
• Facilitate and lead cross-functional teams for full Root Cause Analysis for failures in manufacturing and/or originating at end-customers
• Regularly generate, publish, and present production KPIs and other relevant company metrics