Process Engineer

• Product Innovation
• Leads centres of excellence for key areas to build and share core knowledge and drive standards
• Portfolio transformation for Health and Happiness
• Sustainability (i.e. environment-friendly initiatives)
• Transformational Productivity, through product reformulation

Specifically on Breakthrough product, the role needs to:

• Support in the delivery of the medium to long-term roadmap to drive innovation sustainability and productivity
• Build internal cross-functional expertise and relationships to support to deliver that agenda.
• Work where needed with regional product development and engineering teams.
• Build collaborative relationships with Suppliers, capturing and sharing best practices on the market.

The position will report to the Head of Innovation for the Savoury category. It is expected that the incumbent will work very closely with their counterparts across the Central Innovation & Technology team to effectively deliver the joint growth and transformation agenda and ensure a balanced focus on the productivity and sustainability deliverables.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Deliver against the technical aspects of product design, meeting quality, cost, and timings outlined.
• Support the Process Engineering Centre of Excellence to unlock new-to-pladis processes and scalable product architectures, improve quality, robustness, and speed from concept to manufacturing scale.
• Build global technology platforms surrounding innovation opportunities with a focus on unlocking new process technology opportunities to enable these.
• Utilising in-depth understanding of science, evidence, data, and facts to make clear recommendations on product and process design aspects.
• Connect and consult with external suppliers and propose materials/processes that deliver business benefits in line with project objectives.
• Apply robust scientific methodologies to develop research hypothesis and execute bench and pilot plant experiments/trials.
• Characterise ingredients and final products using a broad range of techniques, such as texture and rheology.
• Analyse and interpret analytical data with full ability to implement results and provide next steps recommendations.
• Collaborate with others to build and deliver appropriate solutions to defined technical hurdles.
• Ensure timely completion of project documentation.
• Ensure technical gates are completed at each stage plus ensure the completion of ingredient specs, product specs, HARA, and product quality attributes delegating tasks to project team as appropriate.
• Developing bench samples, planning and participating in pilot plant and factory trials (pladis and Suppliers), and presentation of samples to marketing and other stakeholders.
• Ensure that all work is carried out in a safe and hygienic manner, following factory or bakery GMPs.
• Draw up product specs to final status ensuring effective handover of the development to the regional Categories Product Development Teams.
• Contribution to pladis Innovation strategy through support of conceptualisation and proactive NPD.

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