Expert Category Engineer

The Expert Category Engineer serves as the technical anchor and execution integrator for an assigned NUSA category. The role supports the Category Director of Engineering in translating category strategy into executable engineering solutions across multiple factories while ensuring alignment with Innovation & Renovation initiatives, engineering compliance requirements, process mastership, sustainability objectives, factory capability development, and technology roadmaps.

The Expert Category Engineer provides category-wide technical leadership, process expertise, and coordination across manufacturing sites, ensuring best practices, standards, and engineering solutions are effectively deployed and sustained across the network. The position serves as a key interface between Factory Engineering, Product Development, Marketing, Operations Strategy, Engineering Hub, TCU/PTC resources, and Corporate Engineering.

• Serve as the Category technical expert and process master, providing technical leadership and guidance for assigned manufacturing technologies, process systems, engineering standards, and manufacturing capabilities across the category.

• Translate category business and engineering strategies into executable technical plans, ensuring alignment of capital investments, Innovation & Renovation initiatives, operational priorities, and long-term technology roadmaps across all factories in the category.

• Lead the evaluation, prioritization, and development of engineering solutions by providing technical direction, feasibility assessments, manufacturing strategies, cost estimates, and implementation recommendations to support business objectives and category growth plans.

• Drive process optimization, reliability improvement, operational excellence, hygienic design, Spotless/Fabrik initiatives, and manufacturing performance improvements to enhance safety, quality, capacity, efficiency, and cost performance across the category.

• Support the deployment and sustainment of engineering standards, including EFCA, engineering compliance programs, risk assessments, HAZOP reviews, and best practices to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient operations.

• Build technical capability across the factory engineering network through coaching, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and development of engineering competencies, process expertise, and manufacturing best practices.

• Serve as the primary technical liaison between factories, Category Engineering, Engineering Hub resources, Corporate Engineering, PTCs, TCUs, TAG, and other technical networks to ensure alignment, standardization, and effective deployment of solutions across the category.

• Partner with Factory Engineering, Operations, Product Development, Marketing, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations Strategy teams to support Innovation & Renovation projects, technology deployment, process capability development, and network optimization initiatives.

• Coordinate and leverage internal and external engineering resources, including project engineers, SMEs, contractors, consultants, and equipment suppliers, to ensure successful delivery of engineering objectives, category priorities, and project outcomes.

• Establish and implement engineering processes, routines, and governance practices that support compliance with Nestlé Engineering Policies, Capital Investment Guidelines, Engineering Excellence standards, and Category Engineering operating principles.

• Monitor and influence key engineering performance indicators, including process capability, reliability, project readiness, compliance, cost performance, sustainability performance, and operational efficiency while driving continuous improvement across the category.

• Demonstrate and promote Nestlé Corporate Business Principles and Management & Leadership Principles while fostering a culture of safety, technical excellence, collaboration, accountability, capability development, and continuous improvement.

• Champions a culture of safety, quality, and environmental stewardship by ensuring all engineering activities, technical decisions, and process changes…