Associate Engineer

Unilever•Trumbull, CT

About The Position

The Skin Cleansing Process Capability has been a major force in delivering innovations as well as driving Digital and Capability Roadmaps. It will become increasingly important to ensure all necessary touch points are managed and advised by the team so that SCL has robust and superior product delivery to market. The primary purpose of this position is to accelerate innovation delivery as part of the key pillars of the Skin Cleansing Process Engineering team. First, there will be a requirement to advise the innovation team on processing considerations for the scale up of new, arresting technologies that center around and will also include additional strategic priorities. Second, there will be a need to bring creative and unique thought to the design and development of enabling process capabilities for innovation delivery. These capabilities will also help deliver against growth fundamentals aimed at driving efficiency and subsequently, sustainability into our supply chain. Lastly, there will need to be a focus on digital processing tool development to increase productivity in the R&D space to more quickly and predicatively deliver products to market. This will create a more connected program and community of engineers globally across R&D and Supply Chain. For innovation, the Engineer will interact with skin cleansing product developers in addition to collaborating with Supply Chain to facilitate product scale-up. For capability work, global collaboration across the R&D and Supply Chain network will be key as capabilities need to be designed for Skin Cleansing. Lastly, for digital processing development, this position will require a data first mindset. The individual will need to collaborate with the global network of cross functional R&D colleagues and Supply Chain this high-quality data standard ensures relevant tools/models land with maximum value and utilization.

Requirements

Must be able to effectively organize and manage workflow of multiple projects and priorities in a dynamic global work environment.
Must be able to demonstrate a general understanding of project management to realize the order, importance, and impact of appropriate project activities
Must be able to communicate issues effectively to technical and non-technical personnel. (Brand, Finance, Manufacturing, Consultants, Leadership)
Must be able to work effectively with regional and global teams composed of individuals with technical and non-technical backgrounds & perspectives.
Must understand consumer, business, and category needs while operating with strategy considerations to deliver the teams’ goals in addition to the larger Unilever Compass.
Must continue to improve and utilize digital capabilities as a fundamental skill. Deploying these to colleagues needs to be part of consistent delivery.
Must have operable computer software skills: Word processing (Word), Spreadsheets (Excel), Presentations (PowerPoint), email(Outlook), Collaboration (Teams), Dashboards/Reports (Power BI), App Building (PowerApps, Python), Data Storage (SharePoint)
Effective verbal & written communication skills.
Basic technical competence in pilot plant operations across batch and sonolation processes as well as operation of key measurement devices (rheometer, pH, density, conductivity)
Basic Supply Chain knowledge related to compounding and downstream operations related to product delivery to pack lines
Drive a winning culture

Responsibilities

Advise on and support the process design and scale up of key innovations globally across internal and external manufacturers through the delivery of high-performance process specifications. This will be critical in delivering iTo back to the business by ensuring formulations can be delivered to market on time and in full with minimal post launch support or issue management.
To upskill the skin cleansing community, and in time the entire R&D community, the candidate would champion a new, structured data workflow aimed at leveraging Design of Experiment principles for both formulation and process design. This work will quantify scale up risk for new innovations and therefore start to minimize the number of plant trials needed, while also ensuring robust formulation and processes land in our factories, ultimately improving their right first time.
In a time where business needs and demands are extremely dynamic, systematic collaboration with x-functions to drive efficiencies across key core formulation development activities within the category will be critical. This will lead to more streamlined processes and unlock considerable capacity, allowing all to better meet the ever-changing demand. It will allow us to continue to grow our innovations and deliver bottom line growth back to the business
Provide support for the enhancement of current or the creation of new digital processing tools within the global development community. Creating an integrated, seamless ecosystem of digital processing tools will unlock exponentially increasing value back to the business by increasing productivity across the processing organization.
Organize and manage the continued testing and design of new process capability technology for Superior Products. It will be important to extend the current capability that is being developed, while ensuring the funnel of innovation in this space remains full, guaranteeing value back to the business when the technology lands in manufacturing sites.
Support efforts to land and validate new processing capabilities in factory scale environments. Validating technologies is the first step to realizing their true value and provides justification to rolling the universally designed technology to interested global manufacturing sites.

Benefits

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Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits.