Senior R+D Process Engineer

Henkel Corporation; Trumbull (CT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Henkel Corporation is seeking a process-focused role to drive pilot plant operations and scale-up activities for Laundry & Home Care and Hair products. This position emphasizes collaboration with plant technical teams and cross-functional leaders to ensure reliable process design and successful product launches.

The ideal candidate translates pilot learning into production-ready equipment and conducts on-site validation and technology transfer to sustain performance, while delivering data-based

Responsibilities

• Lead best-in-class pilot plant operations and produce diverse product forms for technical and consumer testing.
• Translate pilot learning into production equipment requirements, partnering with plant technical teams to support investment planning, project timelines, and robust process design.
• Support innovation and new product launches by partnering with cross-functional leaders to confirm technical capability and readiness.
• Lead production scale-up, on-site process validation, and technology transfer to sustain process performance.
• Communicate clear, data-based recommendations to management to support timely decisions.
• Identify continuous improvement and optimization opportunities, develop models to explain and predict process performance, and interpret data to guide actions.

Job description

About this Position

At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping thefuture through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trustedbrands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and ourcutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore newpaths and grow.

This position is with our Consumer Brands business unit – where weempower our employees to bring the best Laundry & Home Care and Hairproducts to people around the world.

Dare to learn new skills, advance inyour career and make an impact at Henkel.

What you´ll do

• Leadbest-in-class pilot plant operations and produce diverse product forms fortechnical and consumer testing.
• Translatepilot learning into production equipment requirements, partnering withplant technical teams to support investment planning, project timelines,and robust process design.
• Supportinnovation and new product launches by partnering with cross-functionalleaders to confirm technical capability and readiness.
• Leadproduction scale-up, on-site process validation, and technology transferto sustain process performance.
• Communicateclear, data-based recommendations to management to support timely decisions.
• Identifycontinuous improvement and optimization opportunities, develop models toexplain and predict process performance, and interpret data to guideactions.