Associate Flavor Process Engineer

McCormick & Company, Incorporated; Maryland; On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Flexibility and Support for Diverse LI

Health insurance

Job summary

McCormick & Company, Incorporated in Hunt Valley, MD, is seeking an Associate Engineer, Clean Flavor to design and scale-up extraction processes and manage pilot-plant operations. You will collaborate with Engineering and Operations to ensure safe, efficient pilot and manufacturing trials, translating lab methods into scalable procedures.

The role requires a chemical/food engineering background, 2+ years in process development or related fields, and hands-on experience with lab or pilot

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Eng, Mechanical Eng, Food Eng, Chemistry, or Food Science.
• Two+ years of relevant engineering, lab, process development, manufacturing, R&D, or QA experience.
• Hands-on experience operating lab, pilot, or manufacturing equipment.
• Ability to apply engineering principles to experimental design, scale-up, data analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to safely work with flammable solvents, botanical materials, flavor ingredients, and processing equipment.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute bench- and pilot-scale process experiments.
• Develop and optimize aqueous, hydroethanolic, oil-based, and other food-compatible extraction processes.
• Evaluate process variables including solvent systems, temperature, time, mixing, flow rate, filtration, separation, and concentration.
• Operate, assemble, clean, and troubleshoot pilot-scale extraction, filtration, centrifugation, evaporation, distillation, and related equipment.
• Perform material balances, yield and scale-up calculations, equipment sizing, unit conversions, and process-data analysis.
• Translate laboratory processes into pilot- and manufacturing-scale operating procedures.
• Identify process limitations and recommend equipment or process improvements.
• Support pilot and manufacturing trials, process transfers, commissioning activities, and commercial scale-up.
• Prepare process flow diagrams, experimental records, technical reports, operating procedures, and project updates.
• Collaborate with equipment manufacturers, suppliers, co-manufacturers, Engineering, and Operations.
• Maintain a safe and organized laboratory and pilot-plant environment.

Skills

Math & analysis

Technical writing

Communication skills

Independent & team work

Project management

Education

Bachelors in Eng

Chemical/Mechanical/Food Eng or related

Tools

SAP

Batch Metrics

DevEx

Job description

McCormick & Company, Incorporated in Hunt Valley, MD, is seeking an Associate Engineer, Clean Flavor to design and scale-up extraction processes and manage pilot-plant operations. You will collaborate with Engineering and Operations to ensure safe, efficient pilot and manufacturing trials, translating lab methods into scalable procedures.

The role requires a chemical/food engineering background, 2+ years in process development or related fields, and hands-on experience with lab or pilot