Process Engineer

Job Description

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

Want to help us make a difference?
Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.
Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.

People are the heart of our strategy

A family-owned Group, Roquette offers a positive and attractive work and career environment, in which everyone can learn, develop, contribute to the overall company performance and be recognized for doing so.

Roquette is a global leader in plant-based ingredients, a pioneer of plant proteins and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients. In collaboration with its customers and partners, the group addresses current and future societal challenges by unlocking the potential of nature to offer the best ingredients for food, nutrition and health markets.

We're looking for our next Process Engineer to join our team as the WORLD's LARGEST PEA PLANT. Diverse views and experience make us strong. We look for people who have a safety-first mindset, who are collaborative team players, who deliver on their commitments, who are innovators in search of a better way, and who believe in inclusion.

This position is located at site in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (MB)

Duties and Responsibilities

• As defined by the Head of Production, bring technical solutions for process optimization.
• The incumbent will lead all process related studies and coordinate trial sessions in order to achieve the performance KPIs.
• Develop the technical skills of the production team by delivering a technical training program.
• Take the lead as the process expert for the engineering project.
• Leads trials in partnership with Global Manufacturing performance, R&D and Global Engineering.
• Improve the productivity of the plant.
• Document all procedures and work instructions that are process related.
• Build, own and update process flow diagrams (PFDs) and standard operating procedures to support the operation of the plant.
• Keep the technical documentations up to date.
• Establishes, analyzes, and acts upon measures of performance related to processes.
• Investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies relating to equipment and processes to reduce variation and improve reliability.
• Assists with the creation of matrix routings to manage the flow of materiel throughout the process.
• Lead/participate in process troubleshooting and equipment failure investigations.
• Own and update the material and energy balances for the area.
• Maintain a process utility spreadsheet and process design narrative to support other project disciplines.
• Prepares functional descriptions of the process to describe required operation to the automation team.
• Provides assistance in providing technical data in preparation of operating procedures, environmental permit applications and reports.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Job Requirements

Education: Degree in Chemical Engineering and must have P.Eng.

Experience: Minimum 6 years in food process (Preferred).

Minimum of 6 years of process engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.

Specific requirements: Demonstrated experience in process development and project management.

Technical Applicative competencies

• Good Analytical skills and ability to look for technical solutions to all process related problems.
• Strong engineering knowledge and familiarity with experimental design and statistical data analysis.
• Ability to use Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, experimental design software, and CAD systems (e.g. Solid works, AutoCAD).
• Knowledgeable and conversant with heat and material balances, developing specifications for heat exchangers, pressure relief valves and vessels, process hazard analysis and process simulation software.

If you identify yourself in this position, please apply by uploading your resume and let's start the journey together!

Roquette is proud to be a global company where you can find personal and professional growth through multiple diverse experiences.

Roquette strives to create a dynamic workforce while remaining firmly committed to equal opportunity by complying with EEO laws.

As we continue to grow, Roquette understands that to be successful we must always be inclusive in our approach.

To find out more about our products, values and sustainable development ambitions visit us at www.roquette.com and at www.sustainability.roquette.com