Research and Process Support Engineer - Decatur, IL - Primient : Job Details

Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet. We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We're investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we're focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

As a member of the Global Operation Support Team, the Process Engineer will be responsible for providing technical support across the Global Operations division and leading a portfolio of projects to support the Company and Department goals, focusing on cost reduction and operational improvement. The position will act as a change agent for process improvement implementations and improvement of capabilities of people and systems. This position will act an extension ofPrimientcontinuous improvement (CI) program and will foster a culture of continuous improvement and sustainment while facilitating projects across the organization.

The candidate will be a self-starter, a team player, and capable of productively interacting with a diverse group, ranging from technicians to plant managers to project partners. The candidate must have strong communication and interpersonal skills and be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a large number of processes. The candidate will lead projects and provide expertise to support and develop high quality, cost effective solutions. The incumbent will be an advocate for embedding CI tools withinPrimient.

Job Responsibilities:

• Placing safety as the highest priority
• Lead process improvements projects, including:
  • Setup, design, and execution of experiments at bench and pilot scale
  • Evaluation and interpretation of experimental results
  • Provide economic analysis/assessment of current and future candidate process concepts and technologies
  • Communicate frequently with key stakeholders to meet project goals and deadlines
• Train technicians and other members of project teams on equipment use, data collection, and data analysis
• Collaborate with internal partners to ensure effective technical transfer from the pilot plant to production environments, including documentation of new/updated key process indicators (KPIs)
• Analyze opportunities as well as guide and plan actions around process improvement ideas
• Foster collaborative and organizational learning
• Provide process engineering support for manufacturing operations
• Monthly project reviews, management and growth of project pipeline, including the ability to move projects through the development stages and ultimately to completion.
• Willingness to travel as required (generally