Ice Cream Transformation Project Engineer
Listed on 2025-12-31
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Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineering
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Job Title: Ice Cream Transformation Project Engineer
Reports To: NA Product/Innovation Engineering Manager
Work Level: 1C
Location: Sikeston, MO
Terms &
Conditions:
Temporary, 18-24 months
The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company. A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories.
Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.
About The Magnum Ice Cream Company
The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it.
With 19,000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.
We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.
We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.
If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you!
This is a temporary full-time project-based role with an anticipated completion time frame of 18-24 months. The selected individual may be eligible to apply to available internal opportunities within Unilever following completion of the project, although no continued employment is guaranteed.
Job Purpose
Transformation Project Engineers play a crucial role in supporting the factory by validating and assisting with planned changes in manufacturing related to higher efficiencies of equipment. This involves maintaining cost-effective production while optimizing processes and adopting a flexible approach to challenges such as labor shortages, raw material shortages, supply chain disruptions, technological and product innovations. Reports to the Product and Innovation Engineering Manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Liaison with R&D, Marketing and Supply chain Manufacturing to propose a solution for Innovation project.
- Identify the make/supply solutions to solve the problem.
- Marketing together with R&D Design, identify the ambition for the consumer experience and how this will be delivered through product, process, and packaging design.
- Follow Early Product Management methodology to forecast resources and Capex needed, and to determine how likely the project is to hit launch.
- The starting point is to provide an initial technical brief describing the problem and proposed solutions.
- Develop project brief with R&D team.
- Complete due diligence on the supply chain elements foreseen for the Validate Phase testing/launch plans (including transit trials where necessary). Define testing plan to define any risk, and propose mitigation plan, e.g. pilot plant trials, factory trials, transport trials, etc.
- Capex survey and approval (If new capabilities are required).
- Are the capabilities of the new assets future fit?
- Risk Assessment to the agreed CRQS/PQS (SHE and Quality)
- Clear definition of recipe and process flow diagrams in PLM, including critical parameters & tolerances for materials, semi-finished goods and processes.
- KPI's and KAI's (Success Index) consolidation & targets
- Waste targets in line with IC Innovation Waste Policy
- Launch Monitoring Plan - definition & formalization of action standards for first months after launch
- eMOC (equipment and/or process)
- Post project technical review.
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