Dairy Process Engineer: Optimize Production & Yield

Schreiber Foods; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation bonus

ESOP + 401(k) match

Job summary

Schreiber Foods in Grand Rapids, MI seeks a Process Engineer (or Senior Process Engineer based on experience) to optimize upstream dairy processes including blending, standardization, heat treatment, filtration, and sanitation. On-site role with relocation benefits and ESOP involvement.

Collaborate with Operations Excellence, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, and other teams to drive continuous improvement, process capability, and food safety across production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Engineering; Chemical or Process Engineering preferred.
• 0-6 years of engineering experience.
• PE is a plus but not required.
• Experience in fluid related processing or equivalent in FDA/USDA-regulated foods preferred.
• Knowledge of aseptic processing, heat treatment, filtration, blending beneficial.
• FMEA, CIP, heat transfer, and dairy process knowledge valued.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate existing manufacturing processes and identify efficiency, cost, and risk improvements.
• Design and implement improvements to enhance yield, reduce waste, and increase throughput.
• Collaborate with Operations Excellence and Data Science/Analytics to leverage data for optimization.
• Coordinate with Maintenance and Reliability Engineering for uptime and predictive maintenance.
• Scale up new products from concept to production within existing processes.
• Lead or assist in new equipment installations from concept to commissioning.
• Perform process capability studies to predict trends and ensure product specs.
• Coordinate capital project scoping, budgeting, scheduling, and equipment qualification.
• Maintain documentation: process manuals, P&IDs, CCPs, SOPs, equipment specs.

Skills

Process engineering

Data analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel up to 10%

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Schreiber Foods in Grand Rapids, MI seeks a Process Engineer (or Senior Process Engineer based on experience) to optimize upstream dairy processes including blending, standardization, heat treatment, filtration, and sanitation. On-site role with relocation benefits and ESOP involvement.

Collaborate with Operations Excellence, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, and other teams to drive continuous improvement, process capability, and food safety across production.