Process Engineer

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Godiva Chocolatier Product Development Role

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don't compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.

Purpose:

Godiva Chocolatier, as part of Pladis, operates in highly competitive, fast moving markets where it is essential to maintain and extend market share through profitable branded growth. Successful innovation through product development, continuous value improvement and consumer perceived quality superiority vs. the competition are critical.

This is an important role responsible for supporting in the development new recipes, formats and products to fit with concepts that will drive brand strategies. They will work with cross functional teams to bring to reality technical briefs.

They will support the Head of Product Development in the delivery of an ambitious and transformational product strategy that is aligned to the growth ambition and sustainability aspirations of the company.

The role requires an individual who is competent and skilled at working across cultures and functions and collaborating to deliver with others. They need to be able to work effectively with regional and external partners to identify appropriate opportunities and drive development of innovative solutions, best practice approaches and systems.

Key areas of focus for the role will be on:

• Process development and scale-up:
  Translate product designs into manufacturing process flows, trial plans, equipment requirements, operating windows and scale-up strategies.
• Process validation and capability:
  Define critical process parameters and quality attributes; execute statistically sound trials to confirm repeatability, capability and control.
• Product Commercialization:
  Compose test run Protocol, outlining test parameters and objectives, prior to performing test. Prepare any necessary data sheets for gathering test data to validate new products.
• Collect samples from test runs and perform statistical analysis of SPC weights/measurements and Analytical studies. Compile information using programming software.
• Production support:
  Support Reading production for technical troubleshooting for chocolate, caramel, tempering, moulding, enrobing and other available technologies.
• Technical troubleshooting:
  Diagnose and resolve issues across chocolate handling, tempering, moulding, enrobing, caramel and filling preparation, cooling, demoulding and related technologies.
• Quality support: support definition of Visual Standards for new products, create and maintain products standard
• Complete New Product "workbook" in preparation for Commercialization scale up process and the making of Sales samples. This includes preparing Preliminary documentation for Pricing Studies and Bill of Material set up.
• Product Testing:
  Support set up and validate Shelf life for the new products industrialized
• Process Optimization:
  Work closely with engineering and production teams to ensure continues improvement and waste reduction.

The ideal candidate will have solid core chocolate process and product technical skills, and be able to understand the needs of the business, our consumers and customers to support the Head of Product Development in creating and driving an exciting product agenda.

Within the Global Functions team, we support the NAM region, to leverage size, expertise and best practices.

Key Responsibilities and Deliverables:

• Own the process…