Senior Process Engineer - Nuritas : Job Details

POSITION SPECIFICATION

Position: Senior Process Engineer

Company: Nuritas

Location: USA, Mid-West preferable.

Reporting Relationship: Head of Operations and Engineering.

Nuritas is revolutionizing the discovery of novel, natural and scientifically proven bioactive ingredients that enable their partners to create better or new product solutions for their customers. The company's disruptive computational approach to discovery uses artificial intelligence, deep learning, and genomics to rapidly and efficiently predict and then unlock the most health-benefiting components hidden within plants and natural food sources, called peptides. Nuritas has established the world's largest peptide knowledge base. Through its discoveries, Nuritas wants to firstly manage and improve human health and secondly help make our food system more sustainable by replacing current unwanted ingredients and molecules with more natural and sustainable ones.

Since its founding in 2014, Nuritas has developed proprietary AI and DNA analysis to enhance the accurate analysis of molecules and peptides in food. The new technology is significantly faster with unparalleled accuracy compared to traditional methods of discovery. Founded by research scientist Dr. Nora Khaldi, Nuritas has received significant backing to develop its technology.

Nuritas has built and grown a unique discovery platform N???????? (Nuritas Peptide Finder). The N???????? artificial intelligence platform with wet lab has been shaped and trained on years of proprietary experimental data as well as curated structured and unstructured data allowing it to predict novel peptides with targeted efficacy. Beyond efficacy, N???????? can also predict with huge accuracy the chemical and physical characteristics of peptides needed to have clinical and commercial viability, such as cell penetration or bioavailability.

Nπϕ has attracted high-profile partnerships and customers, including Nestle, Mars, Sumitomo Corporation and Pharmavite. Nuritas' science-proven bioactive peptides are unlocked from plants and natural food sources, with applications across functional foods, supplements, medical food, cosmetics and food technology.

Separately, the beating heart of Nuritas is their incredibly passionate team. Nuritas have an international team comprising over 16 different nationalities with offices in Dublin and Connecticut. They are also very proud of their gender balance with 50% women and men across the team. The Nuritas Data Scientists, Biologists, AI Engineers, Chemists, Commercial and Operations teams bring innovation, passion and flexibility to their work every day. With an extremely strong team, advisory board, investors and collaborations, the Nuritas mission is to unlock the benefits of nature and improve the lives of billions.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Process Engineer who will be responsible for leading process engineering activities and providing operational support in the Operations and Engineering department, ensuring efficiency, quality, and compliance with industry standards. This is a key role that will drive operational excellence, optimize processes, and contribute to the growth and success of Nuritas.

• Responsible for providing process engineering expertise to establish, sustain, and improve manufacturing processes including yield, COGS, and capacity while maintaining high Quality standard.
• Drive continuous improvement by utilizing Lean Six Sigma methodology.
• Manage process engineering projects from beginning to end.
• Identify and administrate appropriate vendors of technical disciplines for implementation of process engineering projects.
• Liaise with Third Party Manufacturers (TPMs) to execute production campaigns of commercial ingredients.
• Establish and monitor process performance metrics.
• Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective action where performance falls below established metrics.
• Develop and update batch records, work instructions, product recipes, and other technical documentation.
• Support operations by attending manufacturing campaigns at TPMs and providing technical guidance to any process issues.
• Establish policies, and procedures that support compliance to applicable regulations or industry best practices.
• Periodically review and update departmental SOPs.

This role is a key player interfacing with multiple departments such as Quality, Supply Chain, Ingredient Development and Finance.

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical/Biochemical Engineering or related fields.
• 5+ years of process engineering experience in large scale functional ingredients manufacturing operations environment.
• Demonstrated experience with scale-up, tech transfer, and process optimization of functional ingredients.
• Demonstrated experience in improving processes, reducing manufacturing costs, increasing throughput and capacity, and operations excellence.
• Proven track record in fields of root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and operations support.
• Understands and has worked on bioreactions, especially liquid phase reactions, liquid processing separation technologies such filtration, centrifugation, decantation, etc. and spray drying.
• Hands on style of working with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Strong communication skills to achieve stakeholder alignment for continuous improvement proposals.