Industrialization and Technical Support Engineer

Symrise; Hodges (SC); In loco; USD 70.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Symrise is seeking a role to manage Industrial Trials in line with the R&D roadmap, handling formulations, process charts, and related documentation. The position provides technical support across departments and drives projects from pilot to industrialization while seeking continuous improvements.

Education requirements include a bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) in food processing, food sciences, or chemistry, with 1–5 years of experience.

Competenze

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Proven project management experience with ability to lead timelines and deliverables.
• Background in an industrial production or manufacturing environment.

Mansioni

• Industrialization: qualify new products and equipment per R&D priorities.
• Organize opening/closing reviews with quality, purchasing and industrial teams.
• Build development plans with milestones and timelines for projects.
• Prepare documentation for trial formulations and process flow charts.
• Validate trials for chemical specs, yields and palatability.
• Communicate conclusions to the manager via trial reports.
• Ensure follow-up after validation in production (first 10 batches).
• Production recipes management: schedule trials with production to keep projects on time.
• Create BOMs in ERP and update formulas and process charts.
• Modify formulas to address temporary material shortages and constraints.
• Ensure formulations/processes adhere to industrial constraints.
• Coordinate scale-up and industrialization of new products.
• Interact with suppliers and external parties as needed.
• Initiatives: propose and lead actions to improve the R&D organization.
• Report malfunctions to management with corrective actions and long-term options.

Conoscenze

Strong communication

Project management

Industrial environment

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in food processing/food sciences/chemistry

Master’s degree in food processing/food sciences/chemistry (preferred)

Descrizione del lavoro

About us

Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances and flavors, cosmetic active ingredients as well as functional ingredients. Its customers include perfume, cosmetics, food and beverage manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of dietary supplements and pet food.

With sales of around €4.9 billion in the 2025 financial year, the company is one of the world's leading providers. The Group, headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, has more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, the USA and Latin America.

Together with its customers, Symrise develops new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an indispensable part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked.

Symrise – always inspiring more...

Your role

To Manage Industrial Trials in accordance with the R&D roadmap along with formulations, process chart, related paperwork, recording documents and processes. To Ensure technical support and troubleshooting to all departments. Follow-up autonomously assigned projects in accordance with R&D management guidelines and decisions. Develop new products and processes and optimize current solutions in accordance with our development procedures and respecting our stage gate process. Make propositions for continuously improve our process, products, and programs.

1. INDUSTRIALIZATION

• Ensure new product and new equipment qualifications are in accordance with the R&D program and priorities from management
• Organize opening and closing reviews with quality, purchasing and industrial
• Build the development plan, manage milestones and timelines for projects
• Prepare all documentation for the trial formulation and process flow chart
• Validate trials with regard to chemical specifications, yields, and palatability
• Communicate to manager via trial report the conclusions
• Ensure follow-up after product validation in production (first 10 production batches)

2. PRODUCTION RECIPES MANAGEMENT

• Schedule with production the trials to ensure project is on time
• Create Bill of material in ERP
• Validate and update formulas, process charts
• Modify formulas to fix temporary run-out of raw materials, ingredients, bases...
• Ensure that formulation/process will be respected
• Adapt the product & process to industrial constraints
• Provide formulas for rework

3. PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND FORMULATION

• Manage new product implementation from the pilot phase to the Industrialization and all the way to Launch (performance, cost, time, return on investment, process capability, quality control…)
• Responsible for project execution: pilots, coatings, and tests planning; project traceability, paperwork management
• Interpret pal tests, analytical results and make projects synthesis to report to management and share during project reviews
• Coordinate the scale-up and industrialization of new products
• Take on Portfolio project as needed: be the Local point of contact for Global projects, propose action plan and provide regular updates to the team.
• Can interact with suppliers, outside parties and customers when requested.

4. INITIATIVES

• To propose and lead the actions to improve the R&D organization
• To report to management about any malfunctioning into the system and take relevant short term corrective action and propose long term options.
• To constantly improve the communication system (paperwork, computers…)
• Follow up in autonomy for own R&D projects and make decisions independently on how to pursue

About you

EDUCATION/SKILLS NEEDED

• A master’s degree in food processing, food sciences and technologies or chemistry is preferred.
• A bachelor’s degree in food processing, food sciences and technologies or chemistry is required.
• 1 to 5 years’ work experience is required.
• Strong communication skills
• Strong project management skills
• Industrial environment background (production management, production optimization, process engineering) is a plus

Our offer

Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.

Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin or any other basis protected by applicable law. All employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications, merit and business necessity.