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Position Snapshot
Location: Orbe, Switzerland
Company: Nestlé Product Technology Centre Coffee
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%
Type of contract: Permanent Contract
Travel: up to 30%
Target start date: May 2025
Position Summary
The Nestlé Product Technology Centre Coffee (NPTC Coffee) is the leading R&D organization that discovers, develops and deploys coffee and beverage products and technologies for in-home and out-of-home consumption. It consists of units in Konolfingen (CH), Marysville (USA), Orbe (CH) and Singapore and provides new products and processes to all Nestlé markets worldwide.
As a Senior Process Control Automation Engineer for Coffee R&D, you will be responsible for delivering specialized process automation technical assistance and support to the Nestlé Soluble Coffee Category factories across the globe, with the aim of achieving Manufacturing Excellence. Your main focus will be to provide support for Electricity and Automation (E&A) professional and technical operational activities.
Additionally, you will be involved in CAPEX projects, ensuring that all E&A activities align with corporate guidelines and contribute to enhancing business objectives, product quality, and plant operation/performance. In this role, you will prioritize health and safety, product safety, and environmental considerations.
A Day in the Life of a Senior Process Control Automation Engineer for Coffee R&D
* Identify, develop and validate the Process Control, Automation and APC solutions.
* Programming Rockwell PLC and developing Intouch HMI standard process automation packages for pure soluble coffee manufacturing lines.
* Ensure Electricity, Automation, Process Control deliverables and standards are implemented.
* Support industrialization start-up until product commissioning worldwide of our pure soluble coffee factories.
* Active participation in the Automation community of the category (knowledge sharing, training, feedback to design).
* Actively participate in expert network to promote cross-fertilization between different sites (R&D, Org. Units).
* Coach and guide younger team members and Capex project team members in the area of Automation.
* Translate Product and Process knowledge into Automation solutions to enable product and process mastery.
What will make you successful
* Degree in Automation, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant field.
* In-depth expertise in process control automation in F&B Manufacturing environment.
* Advanced skills in programming code (ladder and SFC) for ControlLogix 5000 PLC from Rockwell.
* Can program code in Rockwell Safety PLC (GuardLogix 5000).
* Can develop HMIs on System Platform from Aveva Wonderware (Intouch).
* At ease in tuning PID loops controllers for flow, temperature, pressure, level control loops.
* Experience in process instrumentation.
* Experience in the development of engineering projects as part of a multidisciplinary team, preferably involving different products and technologies in Electrical and Automation areas.
* Experience in the commissioning & start-up of technical equipment, ideally in coffee manufacturing process (i.e. coffee extraction).
* Experience in Hazop studies.
* Knowledge in Advance Process Control (APC) and Machine Learning technologies is a plus.
* Experience in TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), preventive maintenance planning, and/or maintenance execution is a plus.
* Ready to travel frequently worldwide up to 30%.
* Full business proficiency in English is a must; French or any other language is a plus.
At Nestlé, we aim to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
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