Ice Cream Process & Packaging Engineer, Tech Services

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates; Burr Ridge (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates in Burr Ridge, IL, seeks an Associate Engineer Technical Services for Ice Cream manufacturing technologies. The role provides technical leadership across process and packaging, delivering advanced troubleshooting, commercialization, scale-up, manufacturing support, and capability building across the Ice Cream platforms.

The position is on-site, plant-based with occasional evenings or weekend support to meet site and business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Experience with implementing Statistical Process Control concepts and software.
• Experience in commercialization, scale-up, manufacturing capability, and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• First point of contact for packaging escalations by leading investigation and troubleshooting.
• Communicate with external suppliers when materials are outside specifications and follow-through to ensure resolution.
• Own statistical process control system implementation.
• Leverage specifications and standard run conditions to maintain and develop ongoing process verification for key product parameters.
• Ensure monitoring and reporting tools are available to ensure product meets compliance.
• Lead and support line trial plans to deliver critical success factors and validate process capability.

Skills

Six Sigma Green Belt

Statistical Process Control

Data analysis

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Statistical Process Control Software

Job description

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates in Burr Ridge, IL, seeks an Associate Engineer Technical Services for Ice Cream manufacturing technologies. The role provides technical leadership across process and packaging, delivering advanced troubleshooting, commercialization, scale-up, manufacturing support, and capability building across the Ice Cream platforms.

The position is on-site, plant-based with occasional evenings or weekend support to meet site and business needs.