Senior Process Engineer

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. 
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Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There's much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas with. Every day your personality, and your passion will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

 

Reporting to the head of operations as a Senior Process Engineer you will provide technical support and leadership within Operations including :

•Formula and process improvements

•Scale-up of new products and processes

•Product transfers

•Troubleshooting and solving material and product quality issues

•Obsolescence reduction

•Coach and guide junior Process Engineers and Scientists on specific projects

•Act as a point of contact (POC) where assigned, representing and managing stakeholders

•Provide regional technical or project management support as appointed

•Assist Process Technology Manager in leadership of the team

 

Main Responsibilities

 

New Product or Process Industrialization:

•Review formulas  and  new processes for manufacturing, quality, and safety viability and resolve issues with support from the creator and other stakeholders.

•Lead and monitor scale-up and first time production as appropriate to ensure product can be effectively produced.

•Lean and validate product transfers.

•Strong leadership and collaboration required with the production, quality, planning department, FC&A and S+T.

•Propose and implement process and formula revisions to optimize as applicable.

•Act as a point of contact (POC) where assigned, representing and managing stakeholders

•Coach and train junior process engineers and site stakeholders in core technical knowledge as assigned

 

Technical Process Improvement and Engineering:

 

•Identify, define, justify, and implement process and formula improvements that will impact site performance (quality, cost reduction, yield, safety).

•Lead teams and support project members' delivery to ensure project fulfillment as applicable

•Coordinate resources and stakeholders effectively to ensure change management and project acceptance

•Provide site process engineering support.  Identify, justify, provide scope and process requirements for technical process improvement projects.  Strong link to M&E / regional engineering.

•Review and update P&ID's, PFD's, and operational parameters for accuracy.

•Oversee start-up of new equipment / processes

•Perform detailed capacity analysis and apply DMAIC approach to problem identification and resolution.

 

Technical Problem Solving

 

•Identify opportunity for improvements in operations processes and lead solution development

•Provide operations solutions for formula and process issues such as poor yield, chronic quality issues, excessive processing time, insufficient process controls, high product discard levels, formula or process related safety issues.

•Provide solutions for the rework of out of specification product that requires technical intervention.

•Handle and/or coach junior colleagues  in complex problem resolution involving multiple processes and/or formulas

 

Project leadership and support

 

•Lead and support site improvement projects such as product transfers, quality improvement projects, yield improvement projects, cost reduction, and capacity improvement projects.

Lead and support regional and/or global projects as assigned

 

You?

Want to join a team that's passionate about innovation and creativity, and that works together to achieve extraordinary things? It's your essence that we're looking for.