Associate Engineer

Unilever•Trumbull, CT

2d•$59,300 - $88,900

About The Position

The Beauty & Wellbeing Team is seeking an Associate Engineer to join its North America Hair R&D team. The role supports the region’s innovation portfolio and helps execute cost-savings and business-continuity strategies for Hair Care. Work includes batching and scaling up hair products such as shampoos, conditioners, hair treatments, and aerosol and non-aerosol styling products. The position works with functions including Marketing, Supply Chain, Claims, Packaging, Consumer Insights, Procurement, and global technical leaders, as well as manufacturing sites, to deliver innovations on time and ensure effective technology transfer, product quality, and reproducible formulations. The Associate Engineer is responsible for formulation, process development, and validation at bench and pilot scale across Hair North America brands and technologies. The role manages assigned product-development projects with minimal guidance, develops and tests product options, and modifies them as needed to meet consumer, customer, factory, timing, and cost requirements. The position contributes ideas and solutions to support innovation and TRESemmé market leadership while aligning with quality standards and the company’s innovation, resilience, and compliance agenda.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or Chemistry.
Flexibility and open-mindedness in achieving objectives.
Ability to work well in teams and collaborate with others.
Experience actively participating in multidisciplinary teams and working toward team initiatives and personal objectives.
Willingness to learn and ability to work independently.
Strong technical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.

Nice To Haves

Internship experience.

Responsibilities

Support the North America Hair innovation portfolio and cost-savings and business-continuity strategies.
Perform batching and scale-up of shampoos, conditioners, hair treatments, and aerosol and non-aerosol styling products.
Develop and validate formulations and processes at bench and pilot scale across brands and technologies.
Manage assigned product-development projects with minimal guidance and coordinate with cross-functional teams to meet category objectives and ship-to-trade dates.
Develop, test, and modify product options to meet consumer, customer, and factory needs within specified timelines and cost requirements.
Work with manufacturing sites to transfer technology and ensure product quality and formulation reproducibility.
Coordinate with Marketing, Supply Chain, Procurement, global technical leaders, Packaging, Consumer Insights, and other functions to implement innovation and deliver a positive consumer experience.
Identify impacts of cross-functional changes and develop solutions when issues arise.
Contribute ideas and solutions to bring innovations to market and support TRESemmé’s market leadership.
Align work with Unilever quality standards and its innovation, resilience, and compliance agenda.