Food and Beverage Production Engineer

Company Overview

Nulixir, an early‑stage start‑up, is a business‑to‑business (B2B) biotechnology company that develops, manufactures, and licenses intellectual property (IP) for smart nanocarriers, called nanovesicles, which optimize the performance of functional ingredients in food & beverage products. Nulixir is revolutionizing this space, shaping the future of intelligent food and nutrition. This patented technology has applications across multiple verticals in food and beverage (e.g., nootropics, energy stimulants, vitamins, probiotics, protein, etc.).

Founded in 2019, the company brought together a team of CPG leaders, scientists, US attorneys, and nutritionists to overcome long‑standing challenges in the Food and Beverage Industry. The firm’s founder has extensive experience in the development of nanocarriers for cancer therapeutics. In the past year, Nulixir sales have grown 3× with strong interest from small, mid‑size and large CPG companies to partner with Nulixir and incorporate the technology in their products.

Nulixir boasts an impressive board of senior executives from companies like Pepsi, Danone, Paine, Schwartz Partners, etc. The company currently has 20+ employees with a stellar executive team who come from food B2B companies such as ADM, Givaudan, Kerry, and ex‑MBB consultants.

Nulixir is looking for a highly qualified and experienced professional to co‑lead Nulixir’s manufacturing operations. You will partner closely with Product Development, Sales, and Procurement functions to deliver premium quality products to our B2B customers in a timely and cost‑efficient manner as well as continuously identify ways to improve our manufacturing operations as we scale‑up over time. In this role, you will directly report to the Head of Operations.

• Lead a segment of Nulixir’s day‑to‑day manufacturing operations, including developing a daily production plan and ensuring daily operations goals are realized.
• Manage a growing team of Production Operators and Technicians.
• Develop plans for all aspects of production including equipment purchases, staffing needs, work schedules, and material requirements.
• Manage an annual capital spend of $2M+ and annual operating budget of $1.5M+.
• Design, implement, and manage production forecasting, capacity planning, and production scheduling based on prioritization of different customer orders in partnership with the Commercial team and ensure orders are met in a timely fashion.
• Collaborate with procurement and supply chain to plan raw materials inventory to ensure timely availability for production.
• Ensure a healthy and safe manufacturing environment for all employees in compliance with federal and state regulations.
• Develop a thorough understanding of process flow and key controls of the manufacturing processes; use this knowledge along with daily observations of all areas of the operations facility to drive continuous improvement of throughput and yield.
• Design and implement new manufacturing processes and procedures to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Design and implement SOPs providing production instruction for all formulations including make‑to‑stock and made‑to‑order runs.
• Build a robust preventative maintenance plan for all manufacturing equipment and order new parts in a timely fashion to minimize downtime driven by equipment issues.
• Devise strategy to scale up operations and implement new extraction and production lines to consistently grow Nulixir’s manufacturing capacity supporting sales growth in a cost‑efficient manner.
• Conduct feasibility tests of scaling up production for new SKUs as part of the product development process in partnership with the Commercialization team.
• Develop robust SOPs for end‑to‑end manufacturing process for each new product being produced for the first time; leverage learnings from bench‑top scale.
• Define quality standards (including both quality control and quality assurance) across our manufacturing (bench‑top to large scale) and set up systems and processes to meet those standards.
• Establish a robust metrics‑driven system to measure quality of each batch and develop processes to meet defined…