Senior Category Engineer: Manufacturing Tech Leader

Nestle SA; Solon (OH); Remote; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Healthcare coverage

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Nestlé USA is seeking a Category Senior Engineer to anchor and integrate engineering solutions across the assigned category, aligning with Innovation & Renovation, compliance, and sustainability goals. The role interfaces with Factory Engineering, Product Development, Marketing, and Corporate Engineering.

The position emphasizes category-wide technical leadership, process expertise, and collaboration across manufacturing sites to deploy best practices and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in Engineering Field (Mechanical, Process, or Chemical).
• 10+ years of experience in a technical field with a project engineering background.
• Up to 30% travel for offsite projects.
• Corporate Engineering experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across assigned manufacturing technologies, process systems, engineering standards, and manufacturing capabilities across the category.
• Translate category business and engineering strategies into executable technical plans, ensuring alignment of capital investments, Innovation & Renovation initiatives, operational priorities, and long-term technology roadmaps across all factories in the category.
• Lead the evaluation, prioritization, and development of engineering solutions by providing technical direction, feasibility assessments, manufacturing strategies, cost estimates, and implementation recommendations to support business objectives and category growth plans.
• Drive process optimization, reliability improvement, operational excellence, hygienic design, Spotless/Fabrik initiatives, and manufacturing performance improvements to enhance safety, quality, capacity, efficiency, and cost performance across the category.
• Support the deployment and sustainment of engineering standards, including EFCA, engineering compliance programs, risk assessments, HAZOP reviews, and best practices to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient operations.
• Build technical capability across the factory engineering network through coaching, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and development of engineering competencies, process expertise, and manufacturing best practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Project engineering

Manufacturing knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Engineering degree or diploma

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

MS Excel

AutoCAD

Visio

Job description

Nestlé USA is seeking a Category Senior Engineer to anchor and integrate engineering solutions across the assigned category, aligning with Innovation & Renovation, compliance, and sustainability goals. The role interfaces with Factory Engineering, Product Development, Marketing, and Corporate Engineering.

The position emphasizes category-wide technical leadership, process expertise, and collaboration across manufacturing sites to deploy best practices and drive continuous improvement.