Remote Staff Engineer - Spray Drying Systems Leader

Agropur, inc.; Le Sueur (MN); On-site; USD 124,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) with company contributions

Paid Time Off

Paid holidays

Floating holidays

Parental leave

Advancement opportunities

Job summary

Agropur is seeking a Staff Engineer - SME Dryers to join our team. Drying Systems serves as the enterprise technical authority for industrial drying technologies across the manufacturing network, with emphasis on spray drying and related processes.

In this role you will lead technical reviews, provide guidance on design, operation, troubleshooting, and optimization of drying systems, while ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency across facilities nationwide.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years in membrane system process engineering and/or capital project development/execution.
• Experience developing technical standards and specifications.
• Membrane system design, operation, troubleshooting and optimization expertise.
• Strong understanding of dairy processing.
• Ability to influence technical decisions across multiple facilities and stakeholders.
• Experience facilitating technical reviews and driving follow-up actions.
• Experience supporting capital projects.
• Experience implementing standards and change management to ensure adoption.
• Experience with whey processing, protein concentration, and dairy ingredient manufacturing.
• Experience working with leading membrane system suppliers and OEMs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the enterprise SME for drying systems, focusing on spray drying.
• Provide technical leadership for spray dryers, fluid bed dryers/coolers, and related powder and air handling systems.
• Lead technical reviews of major capital projects involving drying technologies.
• Serve as the final technical authority for drying-related engineering decisions.
• Support strategic decisions on drying system design, technology selection, and optimization.
• Make high-quality technical decisions in high-risk situations.
• Participate in concept development, feasibility studies, and design reviews; review vendor proposals.
• Support Operational Excellence by addressing performance, quality, reliability and capacity challenges.
• Build and maintain enterprise drying system standards; ensure compliance and adoption network-wide.
• Establish best practices for powder hazards, hygiene, and regulatory quality standards.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Influence technical decisions

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering (ChE preferred)

Job description

Agropur is seeking a Staff Engineer - SME Dryers to join our team. Drying Systems serves as the enterprise technical authority for industrial drying technologies across the manufacturing network, with emphasis on spray drying and related processes.

In this role you will lead technical reviews, provide guidance on design, operation, troubleshooting, and optimization of drying systems, while ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency across facilities nationwide.