Process Engineer – Food & Beverage
Engineering
K sh 160,000 – 260,000 gross / month
Openings: 1 Location: Nairobi – Baba Dogo (Ruaraka light-industrial zone) Overview: This role centers on stabilizing yields, efficiency, and product quality across a beverage production line covering mixing, pasteurization, and filling. The Process Engineer will spend most of their time on the floor mapping loss trees, running experiments, troubleshooting bottlenecks, and locking in improvements through SOPs and operator coaching. The expectation is practical, hands-on engineering rather than slide-making. You will lead structured problem-solving and continuous improvement initiatives, including DOE trials, pasteurization curve tuning, CIP cycle optimization, and faster changeovers. Close collaboration with QA ensures throughput improvements never compromise product standards. Standardizing work, certifying operator competency, and embedding good manufacturing discipline are central to sustaining gains. The role also carries a financial impact dimension: tracking COGS deltas, quantifying savings, and publishing weekly improvement logs to maintain visibility of progress. Strong analytical capability, comfort with SPC/DOE tools, and fluency in P&IDs, heat transfer principles, and CIP/SIP systems are essential. Key Responsibilities: - Map processes, measure losses, and design experiments (DOE). - Optimize CIP cycles, pasteurization curves, and changeovers. - Balance throughput vs quality; align with QA on specs. - Standardize work; train operators; certify competency. - Track COGS deltas; publish weekly improvement logs. Education & Experience: - BSc Chemical/Process/Food Eng; 3–5 yrs in beverage/food plants. Skills & Tools: - SPC/DOE, P&IDs, heat transfer, CIP/SIP, Excel/BI. KPIs: - Yield, giveaway, changeover time, CIP savings, FTR. Compensation (Kenya): KES 160,000–260,000 + improvement bonus. Client estimates vary with impact and experience. Benefits: - Medical, meals, PPE, training. Growth Path: - Senior Process Engineer → Continuous Improvement Lead → Plant Technical Manager. Ideal promotion cycle.