Process Engineer

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Other duties may be assigned depending upon operational needs Environmental, Safety, Quality, and Legal Requirements - Understand and effectively utilize all employee safety programs to ensure proper procedures are followed. Act immediately upon unsafe conditions or behavior. - Gain yeast manufacturing process knowledge through internal and external training along with working on the various improvement and/or optimization studies. - Acquire knowledge of, and gain familiarity with, the plant fermentation equipment and process control system. - Acquire knowledge of the plant’s utility systems and their performance. - Learn existing fermentation, CY, and Nutritional production scheduling processes. - Identify/develop opportunities to modify, improve, and/or automate the fermentation scheduling methods. - Participate in and/or lead specific studies and projects directed at continuous manufacturing improvement or process optimization. - Assist Process Superintendent in monitoring and troubleshooting process issus as required. - Monitor operations and anticipate or follow up on various operational issues. - Assist Process Superintendent in developin...