Ice Cream Sourcing Unit Innovation & Technology Engineer (SUIT Engineer)

The Magnum Ice Cream Company•Sikeston, MO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

SUIT Engineers play a crucial role in supporting the factory by validating and assisting with planned changes in manufacturing related to Innovations. This involves maintaining cost-effective production while optimizing processes and adopting a flexible approach to challenges such as labor shortages, raw material shortages, supply chain disruptions, technological and product innovations. The Magnum Ice Cream Company is the world's largest Ice Cream company, leading the industry with iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries. They focus on growth, speed, simplicity, bold innovation, and fostering an inclusive and engaging climate, empowering people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs.

Requirements

3+ years’ experience in Project Engineering with FMCG experience strongly preferred.
Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a project management role.
Professional engineering skills.
Project Delivery experience.
Experience managing project budgets.
Ability to balance a variety of priorities while maintaining healthy relationships across the engineering team, key stakeholders and customers.
Sets high standards for themselves.
Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed.
Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential.
Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Nice To Haves

Firsthand experience / track record of delivering major capital project in Ice cream category.

Responsibilities

Liaison with R&D, Marketing and Supply chain Manufacturing to propose a solution for Innovation project.
Identify the make/supply solutions to solve the problem.
Marketing together with R&D Design, identify the ambition for the consumer experience and how this will be delivered through product, process, and packaging design.
Follow Early Product Management methodology to forecast resources and Capex needed, and to determine how likely the project is to hit launch.
Provide an initial technical brief describing the problem and proposed solutions.
Develop project brief with R&D team.
Complete due diligence on the supply chain elements foreseen for the Validate Phase testing/launch plans (including transit trials where necessary).
Define testing plan to define any risk, and propose mitigation plan, e.g., pilot plant trials, factory trials, transport trials, etc.
Capex survey and approval (If new capabilities are required).
Assess if the capabilities of the new assets are future fit.
Conduct Risk Assessment to the agreed CRQS/PQS (SHE and Quality).
Clear definition of recipe and process flow diagrams in PLM, including critical parameters & tolerances for materials, semi-finished goods and processes.
KPI's and KAI's (Success Index) consolidation & targets.
Waste targets in line with IC Innovation Waste Policy.
Launch Monitoring Plan - definition & formalisation of action standards for first months after launch.
eMOC (equipment and/or process Post project technical review.
Assist Product and Innovation Engineering Manager on capital, innovation, and value improvement projects in the Ice Cream category.
Responsible for providing estimates, options assessment, and technical support for these projects.
Carries out tasks related to project assessment, technical support and implementation with minimum supervision.
Ensures compliance with Unilever Hygiene, equipment and safety standards, specifications, and best practices.
This shall include formulation/process/equipment evaluations, industrial trials, preliminary engineering, project cost controls, timeline, establishment of commissioning plan, plant/equipment commissioning, production startup.
Liaison with all key stakeholders (departments) to ensure full alignment with project scopes, timelines, impact and key project milestones.