Process Engineer

Job Purpose

The Process Engineer provides process engineering expertise and supports Home Care process projects from equipment design and factory layout through installation, commissioning, and handover. The role ensures safe, hygienic, and compliant process design; validates equipment capacity and material flow; and works closely with project, engineering, and production teams to deliver reliable operations, required factory capacity, and improved process efficiency.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead process project in HC, including process equipment design, installation, commissioning & hand over
• Work as process expert, providing process expertise to project team and production team to achieve operation targets in area of process
• Work closely with engineering and Factory engineering, ensuring the project implemented is in line with Unilever standards and Best Practice
• Ensure hygienic design principles are followed
• Ensure that factory layout for a range of products considers optimal flow of material and people to minimize handling and transportation distances
• Ensure that the capacity assumptions for all storage vessels, pumps, lines, flow meters, weighers, mixers, heat exchangers and all other processing equipment for a range of products are correct for achieving the required Batch Cycle Times and factory capacities
• Ensure that the design of the bulk finished product storage and transfer system is capable of meeting packing requirements and factory run strategy
• Lead HAZOP studies in specified areas of the factory to ensure safety in design
• Ensure Process Safety design, and zero incident execution.

Candidate Criteria

Experience & Qualification

• University or higher-level degree in Chemical, Pharmaceutica, Industrial, Electrical Engineering
• More than three years experience in engineering, manufacturing engineering and process engineering
• Process improvement and production efficiency improvement
• Experience in HAZOPs and Safety Approval Systems
• Project Management experience

Skills

• Unilever core design understanding
• Knowledge of process control hardware and software
• Knowledge of GMPs, Hygiene design, Compliance and Regulatory requirements is essential
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a high-paced team-oriented environment
• Proficiency in Power BI and MS Office – Excel / Power Point and Word