Senior Expert / Head Of Food Process Engineering
On-siteCornellà de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain
Job Summary
Design, validate, and implement scalable production processes for mycelium-based solid-state fermentation, moving from pilot-scale to industrial-grade manufacturing. Lead scale-up trials for upstream, fermentation, and downstream processes, managing risks like heat transfer and contamination while updating SOPs, PFDs, and P&IDs. Contribute to FOAK facility design, capacity planning, and capex decisions, and evaluate co-manufacturers to ensure technical fidelity during external process transfers. Develop supply chains aligned with process constraints for raw materials, substrates, and packaging. Translate first-of-a-kind systems into industrial reality through hands-on engineering and deep process understanding.
Required Qualifications
- Degree in food engineering, bioprocess engineering, chemical engineering, or similar
- 8+ years in the food industry with direct involvement in process scale-up and industrial production, incl. set up of production lines
- Proven experience scaling food production from NPD → pilot → industrial scale; ideally in fermentation-based systems (e.g., yogurt, cheese, tempeh, salami, or similar)
- Hands-on experience designing or commissioning production lines or facilities; not purely managerial
- Well-connected across equipment suppliers, engineering firms, and production experts; able to unlock solutions quickly
- Comfortable working in early-stage, ambiguous environments and turning incomplete data into actionable engineering decisions
- Spanish at B2 to C1 level is strongly beneficiery
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