Technologist, Commercialization Engineering

Estée Lauder Companies; Markham; On-site; CAD 64,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Estée Lauder Companies seeks a Commercialization Engineering Technologist at the Hillmount site to translate development concepts into stable manufacturing processes, ensuring quality, safety, and cost targets. You will lead line trials, set parameters, and work with Operations, Quality, Packaging Development, and R&D teams to enable robust product launches.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, risk mitigation, and driving right-first-time readiness in a fast-paced cosmetic

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Chemical or Mechanical preferred.
• 3 years of experience.
• Experience in new product development processes and project management.
• Basic knowledge of Lean Manufacturing techniques: RCA, FMEA, SPC.
• Experience in filling and packaging technologies in cosmetics/pharmaceuticals/food & beverage.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (oral, written).
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).

Responsibilities

• Lead site technical execution of the commercialization process for NPL projects, ensuring products are translated into stable, repeatable manufacturing processes.
• Establish process parameters and control strategies and analyze performance data.
• Resolve technical issues during launch and ramp-up; ensure manufacturability and process capability.
• Collaborate with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Packaging Development, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Plan, execute, and document site-based engineering trials and end-to-end line verification runs.

Skills

Project management

Lean methods

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

Engineering degree (Chemical or Mechanical)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

Description

The Commercialization Engineering Technologist is a site based technical role responsible for enabling robust commercialization, process scale up, and sustained manufacturing performance of new and existing products at the Hillmount manufacturing site. The role ensures products are translated from development intent into stable, repeatable manufacturing processes that meet quality, safety, delivery, and cost objectives. Through disciplined engineering trials, process validation, and risk mitigation, the role drives right first time execution and manufacturing readiness prior to commercial release.

Acting as the primary site technical owner for assigned product portfolios, the Commercialization Engineering Technologist leads line trials, establishes process parameters and control strategies, analyzes performance data, and resolves technical issues during launch and ramp up. The role partners closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Packaging Development, and cross functional stakeholders to ensure manufacturability, process capability, and post launch stabilization. This position is critical to maintaining manufacturing continuity, strengthening process control, and delivering value realization and agility initiatives within a fast paced, high complexity production environment.

Lead site technical execution of the commercialization process for NPL projects, ensuring products are translated into stable, repeatable manufacturing processes that meet ELC specifications, quality standards, and defined cost targets.

Provide site technical capability assessments, equipment constraint analysis, and manufacturing feasibility input to support manufacturing location and NetLoc decision making. Proactively communicate site manufacturing requirements and process constraints to R&D, Packaging Development, and upstream partners to ensure product design, formula, and packaging solutions align with site capabilities and performance targets.

Maintain cross functional communication throughout commercialization to ensure site manufacturability, validated process parameters, and confirmed line readiness prior to product release.

Collaborate with Packaging Development, Brand Quality, Supplier Quality, R&D, and Process Development to translate product design intent into executable manufacturing processes and clearly defined site success criteria.

Lead site pFMEA risk assessments to proactively identify production risks and ensure mitigation actions are embedded into control plans, standard work, and process settings prior to launch.

Participate in and support dFMEA activities with Development teams to mitigate potential design failure and provide manufacturing feasibility input.

Plan, execute, and document site based Engineering Trials and End to End Line Verification Runs, establish validated process parameters, confirm critical control points, and verify process capability prior to commercial release.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Chemical or Mechanical preferred
• 3 years of experience
• Experience in new product development processes and project management.
• Basic knowledge of Lean Manufacturing techniques: Root Cause Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, and Statistical Process Control.
• Experience in filling and packaging technologies in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical or food & beverage industry.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (oral, written), proactive and able to work with short deadlines. Good technical report/writing and presentation skills to directors’ level audience.
• Must be highly proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Some knowledge in packaging materials is a plus.

Pay Range: Anticipated Base Salary Range $63,900.00 to $95,900.00 (Depending on qualifications, skills, experience and/or budget), based on a 40 hour work week (range to be scaled accordingly).

In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time.

• health insurance coverage
• wellness and family support programs
• life and disability insurance
• retirement savings plans
• education-related programs
• paid holidays and vacation time

In addition, the Company maintains highly competitive incentive compensation programs (role eligibility may vary based on terms of the respective plan(s)).

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal-opportunity employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Accommodations for job applicants with disabilities are available on request.

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