Senior Project Engineer
about 3 years ago
Full time role
Oakland, CA, US
Oakland, CA, US
Job Description
Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.
The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.
Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:
The purpose of the Senior Project Engineer role is to build, design, install, configure and optimize manufacturing systems to reduce cost, improve equipment reliability, and develop best practices within the production process.
The initial focus of the project engineer’s work will center on pursuing and implementing new manufacturing technologies, particularly around shop-floor data extraction and visualization. This role will also lead and support major capital projects to build and expand factory production lines.
Depending on your location, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here: https://impossiblefoods.com/careers/notice. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.
The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.
Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:
The purpose of the Senior Project Engineer role is to build, design, install, configure and optimize manufacturing systems to reduce cost, improve equipment reliability, and develop best practices within the production process.
The initial focus of the project engineer’s work will center on pursuing and implementing new manufacturing technologies, particularly around shop-floor data extraction and visualization. This role will also lead and support major capital projects to build and expand factory production lines.
You Will
- Be a technical expert manufacturing data extraction and visualization. Leverage your experience and fundamental understanding of common industrial software (i.e. Wonderware, OSIsoft platform, SAP).
- Build, optimize and maintain manufacturing databases. Build functional visualization to overlay manufacturing data streams.
- Process knowledge of tanks, pumps, valves, and other liquid processing equipment.
- Process knowledge of food processing mixers, formers and packaging machinery.
- Create, update, and maintain plant BFDs, PFDs, and P&IDs to support capital projects and process changes throughout the facility.
- Develop & maintain process guidelines (SOP/SOC) and training programs for the integration of new products and systems.
- Continually strive to reduce process variation (improve process capability) to ensure consistent product quality and adherence to manufacturing standards.
- Develop work cell layouts in an effort to optimize material flow and support 5S and visual management initiatives.
- Initiate and lead new equipment and technologies to maintain the company’s competitive advantage; including detailed scope definitions with the plant (capabilities, throughput, and equipment controls including function block diagrams, process parameters, and data acquisition requirements), RFQ documents, and execution timeline plans (including facility preparation, installation, EH&S, training, production ramp-up, etc.).
- Utilize continuous improvement tools and lean tools to achieve KPI targets. Other targets as assigned.
- Be willing to lead and develop future team members.
You Have
- B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or Data Science.
- Masters degree or 8+ years of experience in manufacturing
- Experience building and implementing manufacturing data systems
- Expert in data visualization to bring functional value from equipment data streams
- Knowledge of mistake-proofing and PLC programming is desirable.
- Experience working in a high volume, continuous manufacturing environment
- Process Engineering / Manufacturing, Engineering expertise.
- A results oriented problem solver with an analytical approach.
- Excellent verbal & written communication.
- A hands-on individual with good people skills.
- Experience with sanitary manufacturing standards and CIP systems
- Six sigma green/black belt and knowledge of DOE preferred.
- Knowledge of HAACP & FSMA requirements
- Can manage multiple priorities or projects simultaneously and keep them progressing to completion.
Depending on your location, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here: https://impossiblefoods.com/careers/notice. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.
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