Hybrid Process Engineer: Scale-Up & Innovation

Ocean Spray; Lakeville (MN); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company matching

Bonus incentives

Job summary

Ocean Spray is seeking a Process Engineer to drive development, scale-up, and qualification of equipment and processes to support global base business and manufacturing optimization. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, align stakeholders, and lead technical initiatives at OS and partner facilities.

The role requires a Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Chemical Engineering or related field, up to 50% travel, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Chemical Engineering, Food Science, or equivalent.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
• Creative thinker with a passion for innovation, problem solving, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Highly organized, adaptable, self-starter able to effectively manage multiple projects.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and willingness to lead cross functional project teams.
• Proficiency with MS Office, AutoCad, MS Project

Responsibilities

• Lead technical assessment, validation, and commissioning of processes at OS and partner manufacturing facilities, collaborating with RDS functional peers to meet technical and business objectives.
• Identify, validate, implement, modifications to processes to improve yields, throughput of batching and thermal processing, utility savings, process control, and other relevant operational targets
• Apply standard engineering techniques in the analysis of existing operational areas from raw materials to finished packages to troubleshoot process related production challenges and recommend corrective actions.
• Lead design, development, and execution of experiments in the pilot-plant and with strategic vendor partners to inform process scale up, troubleshooting, research.
• Develop and implement process specifications, standards and best practices in collaboration with operations and cross functional subject matter experts

Skills

Python data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Chemical Engineering, Food Science, or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

AutoCAD

MS Project

Job description

Ocean Spray is seeking a Process Engineer to drive development, scale-up, and qualification of equipment and processes to support global base business and manufacturing optimization. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, align stakeholders, and lead technical initiatives at OS and partner facilities.

The role requires a Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Chemical Engineering or related field, up to 50% travel, and strong communication skills.