Main Job Purpose

Ice cream is one of the largest categories in Unilever with global multibillion-dollar brands such as Walls.

The ice cream category ambition is to be a true happiness company that will delight consumers, customers and the planet with products that are better for you and better for the planet.

This ambition can only be achieved through an ambitious innovation, technology and commercialization agenda which delivers products and packaging solutions that differentiating and superior vs competition, sustainable, and cost advantaged.

The R&D Senior Processing Development Coordinator is responsible for delivering processes that are efficient in the factories, compliant with SHE and delivers the expected product spec and quality.

The main activities are related to processing development focused on Innovation, renovation, quality plans, waste reduction agenda for Mexico.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for the processing development, providing views on technical feasibility, raising technical processing options for implementation, assuring the delivery on time according to the quality standard, aligned with factory capabilities and project network.
• Responsible for transferring product innovations from laboratory & pilot plant to factories.
• Defines and executes trials for processing validation, aligned with global/ regional processing recommendations and local needs.
• Lead proof of principles for new technologies at the pilot plant and main plant scale. Responsible to run pilot plant experiments, when applicable.
• Identifies technology risks, acting as reference in Risk Assessment forums, contributing to the risk mitigation plan.
• Builds prediction models to validate processing parameters, formula characterization and rheology.
• Prepares and issues processing specifications in SAP PLM, aligned with projects and factory needs.
• Main point of contact for SC, supporting SC transformation projects and assuring clear message to the interfaces regarding processing and scale up recommendations.
• Active role in quality improvement initiatives and the waste reduction agenda;
• Active role in process optimization and complexity reduction agendas for Tultitlán (Industrial and pilot plant).
• Supports implementation of agile tools related to processing development.
• Supports the Digital and Ecosystem agendas for processing Mexico.

Required Experience, Key Skills & Behaviours

• Science or Engineering Degree.
• Experience in product/process development, scale up, technology transfer, TIM (SC), manufacturing is desirable.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Languages: Advanced level for English is desirable.
• A creative, logical and analytical mind to generate innovative solutions to technical problems.
• Ability to respond quickly to changes in priorities and be a real team player.
• A quick learner, not afraid to take the initiative and be proactive to get things done.
• Ability to work with many projects simultaneously and work as part of virtual teams across geographical, cultural and time differences.

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