Portfolio Business: CP Kelco
CP Kelco is a leading producer of specialty ingredients which are added to improve texture, consistency, and stability in food, pharmaceutical and industrial products. Our products are derived from renewable raw materials found in nature for use in jam, fruit and milk drinks, confectionery products as well as industrial applications. We work across the whole value chain from natural raw materials to customers’ end products. CP Kelco is part of the JM Huber Corporation, one of the largest privately held, family owned companies in the United States. With approximately $3.0 billion in sales and 4,000 employees worldwide, we have a combined material presence in more than 20 countries.
Summary
CP Kelco is looking for a Senior Process Engineer based in our plant in Lille Skensved/Denmark
Team set-up:
The position is based in the Danish pectin, carrageenan and locust bean gum plant but as part of the international Technology Operations Team nearly daily regional and international interactions apply, mainly with Germany and Brazil.
Responsibilities
Operations support and contribution to Innovation and CapEx engineering projects:
- Lead adhoc trouble shooting (seeing, swarming, solving, knowledge sharing) for daily operations applying your profound analytical skills, structured statistical data analyses and RCA (Root Cause Analyses)
- Plan, conduct and document feasibility studies and trials on new products/processes on small/pilot scale, up to plant scale
- Based on your profound process experience act as interface from Innovation to Production to link both successfully with scale-up critical factors in mind
- Define processes and design the dimensions by e.g. mass & energy balances
- Deliver on cost vs. benefit/saving evaluations (creation of Business cases)
- Support equipment selection based on your experience
- Start-up of new equipment, create SOPs (standard operating procedures), train operators, follow-up and troubleshoot for smooth transition to daily operations
Process Excellence:
- Ensure the continuous transfer of learnings across the process team and interdepartmental
- Continuously identify, calculate, implement, check & document process potentials, saving (project) ideas
- Contribute to OTIF (on time in full) and OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) performance of the plant by solving production issues in a timely and sustainable way
Key characteristics/competencies:
- Eagerness for continuous learning of new things in a wide area of interests – from raw material to customer product experience
- Mindset of continuous improvement, open to change and “Can do” spirit
- Ability to transfer theory to production process and relate vice-versa
- Goal-oriented and persistent
- Good communication and collaboration skills, outgoing and sociable.
Requirements
- Degree in Chemical or Process Engineering (or similar education)
- Min. 5 years of experience in the process industry
- Very good English skills (written and spoken)
- Advanced user of MS office tools,
- Relevant statistical knowledge for process analyses
- Familiar with P&IDs, main process unit operations and equipments
- A great plus would be any of the following:
- Programming/modeling/chemometric skills (e.g. VBA, Phyton, dot.Net, PI AF, MATLAB, MODDE, Minitab)
- Powder/agglomeration expertise
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J.M. Huber Corporation is an EEO/AAP employer.
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