Remote - Principal Process Engineer - Snacking

The Hershey Company is a leading manufacturer in the snack industry, seeking a Principal Process Engineer for their Salty Snacks division. This senior leadership role focuses on leading process engineering initiatives, ensuring safety and quality in manufacturing processes, and collaborating with various teams to set engineering standards.

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical direction in process engineering development, design, scale-up, installation and start-up throughout the Salty Snacks division
• Providing technical advice to Process Engineering management in the design and approach to major engineering and process innovation development efforts
• Acting as an advisor and subject matter expert with technical and business leadership for strategic capability and capacity plans
• Preparing manufacturing feasibility assessments and capital cost estimates for various process-related projects
• Providing recommendations for process technical development, schedule and budget
• Supporting capital projects in process design and equipment selection, piping and instrumentation diagram creation, equipment and construction bid specifications preparation, process equipment and systems acquisition, installation and start-up, troubleshooting, and line supervisor, operator and maintenance personnel training
• Ensuring all implementation activities for process projects are in full compliance with capital control policies and procedures
• Acting as project lead as required to execute critical process-focused engineering projects
• Managing multiple large and complex unit operations simultaneously, devising methods and procedures to ensure process equipment systems operate as designed
• Managing budget, scheduling decisions, people resources and final project results for the process engineering portion of capital projects
• Developing processes suitable for implementation in a manufacturing facility within the required project timetable
• Optimizing processes during start-up and early production
• Ensuring all process designs deliver personnel safety and product safety and quality
• Leading diverse process teams, including engineers, plant operations, contractors and suppliers
• Leading and implementing process-designed engineering solutions
• Communicating business critical project activities effectively to all levels of management
• Mentoring and coaching junior process engineers, technical specialists and project managers in essential process technical skills
• Developing critical thinking and creativity in junior engineers
• Working well as an individual contributor on a project team or managing a small group of engineers as part of a larger project team
• Representing The Hershey Company in professional and industrial organizations as required
• Developing future capital projects for Salty Snacks division process improvement
• Supplying key process engineering functional evaluations and direction for comprehensive process project scopes, equipment schedules and capital budgets

Requirements:

• 8-10 years' experience with Powder and liquid storage
• 8-10 years' experience with Ingredient Weighing and delivery
• 8-10 years' experience with Dough Mixing/Blending systems
• 8-10 years' experience with Co-Extrusion
• 8-10 years' experience with Direct Expansion - Extrusion
• 8-10 years' experience with Oven/Dryers
• 8-10 years' experience with Fryers
• 8-10 years' experience with Seasoning & Slurry technology
• 8-10 years' experience with Popcorn Kettle systems
• 8-10 years' experience as a process engineering subject matter expert in Salty Snacks
• Bachelors Degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering
• Master's in chemical or mechanical engineering or other relevant field of study