Process Technology Engineer Job in Schiphol, Amsterdam 1118Bg, Noord Holland Netherlands

Process Technology Engineer

The Context of the company
DANONE Baby Nutrition comprises major international brands; Milupa, Mellin, CowGate, Nutricia, Dumex, Blédina, who hold leadership positions around the world. With years of experience and constant innovation they developed a unique expertise in every baby food segment: ‘infant and follow on formula milks', cereals and baby foods for a diversified diet.

The Engineering Team in the Operations Department of DANONE Baby Nutrition is extending with two groups of expertise in Process and Packaging. It is their mission to develop and maintain the technical standards for process and packaging equipments and contribute to the definition of the industrial strategy for the Baby Nutrition Division.

Your mission
Defines the technical standards and guidelines for process equipment that support the business strategy within Danone Baby Nutrition. Assists in or leads studies, Master plan developments and Capex projects up to investment approval and evaluates investment requests.

Main Responsibilities:
- Elaborates and maintains together with RD, Quality, SSD organizations, Factory Technical Managers and Category teams, the Danone Baby Nutrition Engineering standards for process equipments in all categories of products in the portofolio: IFFO (Infant Formula Follow On milks products) GUM (Grown Up Milks)
- Collects, centralizes the technical best practices (guideline benchmark) spreads them to the technical network
- Support or lead projects on process installation during engineering phase
- Guardian of DBN project management methodology.
- Include in the standards definition QFS (Quality Food Safety), safety and environmental requirements, the optimization of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and lean manufacturing
- Participates with SSD (Sourcing Supplier Development) Capex team to the definition and implementation of the supplier’s strategy
- Contributes to the development of the global and local technology suppliers together with the SSD organization and in accordance with the Division strategy
- Develops the engineering function and explain its role and impact throughout the company
- Develops and animates the engineering network
- Implements the engineering methodology, tools and best practices to improve the engineering activity efficiency

Your Profile
- Experienced in engineering and Food/Dairy processing
- Experienced in engineering project management
- International exposure
- Ability to work in matrix organizations (project team / factory team)
- Very good communication and presentation skills
- Autonomous and organization capability
- Ability to take ownership and deliver results
- Fluent in English
- Mobility: Several travels in the countries where factories are located
- At least 3 years of experience
- Degree in Chemical technology/ Mechanical engineering or Food/ dairy processing

Offer
We offer an international and dynamic working environment, where we stimulate your development, within the same discipline, but also cross functionally and internationally. Alongside this we offer a competitive package and benefits. DANONE Place Schiphol is located in the WTC at Schiphol Airport, nearby Amsterdam.

Apply
For more information about the vacancy, please contact Jeffrey Schenk (Corporate Recruiter) on + 31(0)20 – 456 9541. If you are interested please apply via www.danone.com.