Process Engineer - Technical Team

Job Description

Job Description

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife's portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes : fairlife® ultra-filtered milk ; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™ , a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

Job purpose :

The Process Engineer – Technical Team represents the fairlife technical team at their respective base site while being available to support other sites as needed. They will work on initiatives for capacity expansion, process / recipe changes, CI and troubleshooting, supporting processes and utilities. In fulfilling this role, the Process Engineer works cross-functionally with commercial, manufacturing, engineering, IT, quality, R&D, and other functions within fairlife. They will be the top liaison for procuring new processing and utility equipment while incorporating our learnings with new technologies and processes to improve quality, efficiency, and speed to market.

Responsibilities :

With a focus on process and project engineering, this role is responsible for :

• Defining the objectives of capacity expansion projects and overseeing the design for process and utilities to achieve lowest risk design at lowest total cost of ownership,
• Developing or assisting with design basis for new line / plant expansions (mass balance, energy balances, SKU mix, process flow diagram, utility flow diagram, PID approval, HAZOP, FAT, DQ, OQ, IQ, PQ, training and ramp up),
• Defining the standards to which all plant processes and utilities will be designed, automated, constructed and operated.
• Assisting in the development and commercialization of new technologies and processes to improve product quality, process efficiencies, and speed to market for delivery of products,
• Reviewing and updating functional specifications related to new processing and utility equipment,
• Supporting data collection and contracting for procurement of utilities from utility providers.
• Maintaining documentation on utilities systems e.g., PIDs, capacities, design basis up to the point of commissioning of utilities and handover to operations.
• Reviewing new and existing line / plant designs with focus in milk processing area to reduce food safety risk and improve the overall efficiency and cost of operations,
• Solving complex processing problems following escalation from plants; managing the process of escalation with plants to ensure timely resolution,
• Continuously developing systems for monitoring milk production process and situational awareness to enhance efficiencies, reduce losses and minimize total cost of ownership. Examples include design for extended run time, faster CIP turnaround, prediction of next CIP, energy recovery, water re-use, chemical re-use etc.,
• Defining standards to improve accuracy and efficiency of new and existing equipment,
• Supporting commissioning and validation activities, review of Factory Acceptance Test and Site Acceptance Test (FAT / SAT) protocols and execution of acceptance tests,
• Assure plant compliance with Federal, State and Corporate environmental laws, rules & regulations,
• Ensuring that the processes comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, PMO, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments,
• Effectively collaborating and coordinating with plant & project engineering teams to ensure all assigned project work is completed on time and within budget,
• Documenting and clearly communicating the design intent of all new and existing plant equipment to the plants' key stakeholders,
• Providing verbal and written reports to communicate project status as required and contributing to project review meetings,
• Playing a key role in supporting the organization for the commercialization of new products,
• Developing relationships globally in the dairy processing industry to keep abreast of best-in-class performance of various designs,
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills / qualifications required :

Food safety requirements :

Position location : Coopersville, MI

Reports to : Sr. Process Development Engineer

Travel requirements : Up to 75% including some international for first 18 months, then 25% travel expected after 18 months in role

Exempt / nonexempt : Exempt

Base pay range :

$100,000—$130,000 USD

fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company. If you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us, please email careers@fairlife.com .

For Recruitment Agencies

At fairlife, we manage the majority of our hiring internally through our dedicated Talent Acquisition team, which is actively engaged in direct candidate sourcing. Most of our roles are filled through applications submitted via our careers site or through direct outreach by our team.

As our recruitment is primarily handled in-house, we work only occasionally with external agencies, and only those on our existing, pre-approved vendor list. At this time, we are not reviewing or expanding that list.

Unsolicited resumes or submissions from external agencies not authorized by our Talent Acquisition team will be considered direct candidate applications. As such, fairlife will not assume responsibility for any placement fees associated with these submissions.