Product Development Senior Engineer - Commercialization
- Full-Time
- Chicago, IL
- Impossible Foods
- Posted 4 years ago – Accepting applications
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:
You will be a technical lead for new product and process introductions, new line start ups, and process optimization and manufacturing expansion efforts. Your work scope includes both upstream and downstream processing, packaging, and product validation testing. You will support a variety of plant based meat products, including both raw and cooked products. You Will
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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:
You will be a technical lead for new product and process introductions, new line start ups, and process optimization and manufacturing expansion efforts. Your work scope includes both upstream and downstream processing, packaging, and product validation testing. You will support a variety of plant based meat products, including both raw and cooked products. You Will
- Design, plan, and lead trials in multiple manufacturing plants
- Conduct detailed data analysis, visualization, and share your findings and recommendations with large audiences
- See opportunities for improvement and recommend solutions as well as lead root cause investigations to solve quality issues in a data driven manner
- Develop documentation, training, and workflows including specifications, SOPs, and manufacturing instructions for the operations, manufacturing, and quality teams
- Serve as a source of knowledge about the product, process design, and a connection point to product innovation team
- Foster a collaborative learning environment and mentor junior engineers.
- Travel within the greater Chicago area and to California for training and teamwork.
- BS in an Engineering field
- 8+ years of experience in a food and/or beverage process manufacturing environment
- Experience scaling up new products, supporting manufacturing plants on new processes and complex technical problems.
- Experience testing products, e.g. sensory, analytical, process robustness, to ensure targets and specifications are met.
- Experience leading technical projects and directing the work of small teams, for example during plant trials.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving through a data based approach