Job Description
Job Description
Job Summary
We are seeking a Tetra Pak Equipment & Process Engineer for a direct hire opportunity in Bakersfield, CA, supporting a high-volume food and beverage manufacturing environment. This full-time, exempt role is ideal for a senior hands-on process engineering professional with deep experience troubleshooting, repairing, optimizing, and improving Tetra Pak processing and aseptic beverage systems.
This is a highly visible technical leadership position for an engineer who can step onto the production floor, partner with maintenance and operations, identify complex process and equipment issues, and drive long-term reliability improvements. The work environment offers strong cross-functional collaboration, supportive leadership, and the opportunity to serve as the primary subject matter expert for critical beverage processing systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the plant technical expert for Tetra Pak processing equipment, aseptic beverage systems, and related process operations.
- Troubleshoot recurring equipment failures, process deviations, downtime events, automation issues, and production inefficiencies.
- Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to improve reliability, uptime, throughput, yields, and product quality.
- Support beverage processing operations including aseptic processing, UHT systems, thermal processing, blending, homogenization, CIP, product transfer, storage, and distribution systems.
- Partner with Controls Engineering and Automation teams to review PLC, HMI, recipe management, sequencing, alarms, instrumentation, and process control changes.
- Develop and maintain SOPs, troubleshooting guides, process centerlines, operating standards, and technical training documentation.
Compensation and Benefits
- Direct hire opportunity.
- Full-time, exempt position.
- Location: Bakersfield, CA.
- Salary: $110,000 to $130,000 DOE.
- Bonus potential.
- Schedule requires ability to support off-shift troubleshooting, shutdowns, startups, and critical production needs as required.
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This company offers growth and a great group of people to work with.