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Deliver cost savings, quality improvements, and robust control of these processes. Be the go-to technical process expert for dryers, membranes, separation, and fractionation of APC products.JOB QUALIFICATIONS:\nEducation:\nBachelor of Science in Engineering, Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, or related field.\nExperience:\nBachelor’s degree with 5 or more years of experience in a manufacturing environment with an understanding of process control and development is required, or 5 to 8 years of relevant professional experience.\nWorking knowledge of food or feed industry, food safety, and GMP is preferred.\nProcess troubleshooting, designing and implementing new processes.\nExperience in Food, Agriculture, Dairy, BioProcessing or other process intensive industries.\nPrevious Project Management or leadership experience.\nExperience with controls (PLC’s, DCS integration) at the very least control narrative documentation.\nJOB DUTIES:\nIdentify opportunities for quality, cost, and delivery improvement. Develop solutions to mitigate issues and optimize Operations performance metrics.\nUtilize tools such as 8D problem solving, design of experiments, to understand critical input variables that affect process performance and identify viable changes, modifications, and improvements to reduce variation.\nWork with supervisors, managers, and employees to deploy improvement solutions, including procedural changes, line and equipment modifications, and SOP revisions, that are sustainable and consistent throughout all manufacturing facilities.\nServe as a technical resource for applied statistics, process assessment techniques, cost determination, project planning, and control plan implementation and assist with engineering savings impact calculations.\nLead plant and supplier trials in cooperation with Operations, Quality and R&D to access new technologies and processes. \nDesign and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing, and inspection.\nDevelop a deep technical knowledge of key APC processes such as drying, membranes, separation, and fractionation. Document and share this knowledge in a sustainable way. \nUnderstand APC processes globally and assist as needed in unifying best in class processes. \nAssist Engineering Manager in special projects as assigned.\nWillingness to travel and spend time in the processes at our manufacturing plants, on both day, weekends, and off-shifts as required.\nCoordinate with R&D personnel for use of the lab and pilot plant as needed.\nWrite Capital expense requests, coordinate equipment ordering and supervise project work to ensure approved requests are completed within budget.\nJOB REQUIREMENTS:\nComprehensive knowledge of process development tools and capability to statistically analyze complex manufacturing processes. 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