R&D Product & Process Technologist

About the Position                         

We have an excellent opportunity available for an R&D Process and Product Technologist, to improve our planet and make life delicious at Kraft Heinz.

You will be working in a high performing team, alongside peers always trying to get to the next level; get ready for a challenging environment and a continuous exposure to external and internal senior stakeholders.

Your primary responsibilities will be the projects enabling improved product delivery for customers and consumer through Process Efficiency, VE (Value Engineering) and SC (Supply Chain projects) in our Kitt Green Factory.

You’re constantly looking for process improvement activities within the International/Global Business, with the goal of increasing line efficiency, generating value and improving lines’ yield.

In brief, you will work with the whole R&D team in Kitt Green but have a link into the EMDM Process Team based in the Netherlands

You will be responsible for: 

Responsibilities:

• Identify, Support and Lead product and process development and production scale-up activities to improve line AFH product portfolio; efficiency, yield, throughput and product stability.

• Translate R&D recipes and lab/process changes into robust, food-safe manufacturing procedures while partnering with Production, Quality, Maintenance, and Supply Chain to deliver measurable value (OEE, scrap reduction, throughput, cost savings).

• Build and maintain network to drive collaboration with local R&D and SC team to generate Process efficiency, Value Initiatives and Sustainability in Kitt Green

• Test and learn technologies and new processes in Kitt Green Factory.

• Scale the right technologies and equipment for implementation in Kitt Green factory, looking for Improved products, process sustainability and digitalization:

  • Energy, GHG & Water Reduction

  • Yield Improvement

  • Efficiency Improvement

  • Digital improvement

• Deliver Value Engineering and Supply chain projects in the Kraft Heinz International Business, fully compliant with routines, processes, WoW and Kraft Heinz methodologies

• Support cost saving initiatives and actively bring these initiatives into execution. 

• ​​Facilitate connection of enabled technologies to the zone productivity pipelines​. 

This position is based in Kitt Green and under normal circumstances, the job could include travelling to Nijmegen and to the KHC sites.

Qualifications

Hard Skills

• Education: Master Degree in Chemical/Process Engineering, or Process Food Technology

• Work Experience: at least 2 years as process Engineer/Technologist in a food company

• Knowledge:

  • Functional understanding of food processing, including foundational science, ingredient functionality, formulation, product/process interaction, nutrition/regulatory considerations, food safety/microbiology requirements, analytical testing methods.

  • Technical Skills on DOE, process capability, FMEA, root cause analysis, OEE analysis, PID/process control fundamentals, P&ID and Flow Diagrams.

  • Hygienic Design, Thermal validation, cleaning validation, CIP optimization, HACCP.

  • Retorting, Mixing & Dosing, Cooking, Filling Technology, Homogenization, New preservation Techniques, Emulsification, Pump and Fluid Transport, Heat transfer calculations.

Language Knowledge: Fluent in English

What we offer you / You deserve

• An ambitious employer; we only want to the best for you;  

• A fast career track like only few other companies can match;

• A competitive salary.

• Annual Contract.

• Reimbursement of travel expenses.

Always room for new ideas; if you have an excellent idea, please let us know and we can set it into action!