Process Engineer

Company: Givaudan
Location: Bedford Park
Posted on: October 24, 2024

Job Description:

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There's much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There's many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination 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.
Process Engineer, your next position?
Reporting to the Head of Operations for Bedford Park, you'll provide technical support and leadership at the manufacturing facility including formula and process improvements, scale-up of new products and processes, product transfers, material and product quality issues, obsolescence and technical troubleshooting.
This is an on-site position based in our Bedford Park site, located in the Chicago area. This is a first-shift position.

In this exciting position, you'll work with...

• 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 partners.
  • Lead and monitor scale-up and first time production to ensure product can be timely produced.
  • Validate and support product transfers.
  • Collaborate with the production, quality, planning department, FC&A and S+T.
  • Propose and implement process and formula revisions to improve as applicable.
  • Technical Process Improvement and Engineering:
    • Identify, define, justify, and implement process and formula improvements to improve site performance (quality, cost reduction, yield, safety).
    • Provide site process engineering support. Identify, justify, provide scope and process requirements for technical process improvement projects. Strong link to M&E / regional engineering.
    • Maintain P&ID's, PFD's, operational parameters.
    • Oversee startup of new equipment / processes
    • Perform detailed capacity analsysis and apply DMAIC approach to problem identification and resolution.
    • Technical Problem Solving
      • 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 complex problem resolution involving multiple processes and formulas.
      • Project leadership and support
        • Lead site improvement projects such as product transfers, quality improvement projects, yield improvement projects, cost reduction, and capacity improvement projects. You?
          • B.S in Chemical Engineering or related technical field;
          • 3+ years of experience in Process or Project Engineering with experience in the flavor, ingredient, or fragrance manufacturing industry preferred.
          • Have an understanding of accounting, financial, and MRP systems. Comprehensive Benefits plans including Medical, Dental, Vision, and a high matching 401k!
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            #LI-Onsite
            
            At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people's lives.
            You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
            Every essence of you enriches our world.
            Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
            Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.
            
            Remote working: On-site
            
            At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people's lives.
            You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
            Join us and Impact Your World
            Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
            Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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