Industrialization & Product Launch Engineer

Symrise; Hodges (SC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Strong communication

Project management

Industrial environment

Education

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

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

Job description

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.