Job Description

Welcome to the Home of Food at Nestlé! With 220 experts at Nestlé Product Technology Centre Food (NPTC Food) we are responsible for the innovation and renovation of culinary products. Every day we embody the entrepreneurial mindset and transform science into technologies. The aim: Deliver tasty and balanced meals with the highest freshness perception and convenience. Within Nestlés worldwide research and development network we are centrally seated in Singen, Germany. So are you ready to join our international team?

Most important facts at a glance:  

Department: Engineering

Working: fulltime / part-time

Contract: unlimited

Start: Immediate

Travelling: 25 %

A day in the life of a Food Category Engineer

• Innovation Expert: You bring your expertise to create, deploy, and maintain relevant category engineering knowledge on state-of-the-art and future manufacturing setups, ensuring end-to-end excellence.
• Leadership Driver: You drive leadership in technology and engineering mastery, delivering manufacturing excellence and setting strategic priorities with R&D Category Leads.
• Collaborative Implementer: You collaborate closely with our engineering network within Operations and R&D to deliver fast deployment modules and rapidly scale up innovations.
• Standard Bearer: You actively collaborate with Business, Operations, and Nestlé’s R&D networks to successfully deploy standards, improve processes, performance, machine safety, and competitive quality through annual benchmarking, training, and network meetings.
• Technology Industrializer: You industrialize technologies by implementing equipment in factories and markets, collaborating with project managers and engineers from the NPTC Food team, and monitoring potential issues.

What will make you successful

• Academic Foundation: After completing your master's degree in Engineering, you gained several years of experience in research and development and/or industrial engineering operations, successfully working on projects with significant impact.
• Innovative Developer: You have experience in the development and implementation of technologies and equipment concepts for food product lines, contributing to advancements in the industry.
• Problem Solver: You possess the ability to solve unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business, showcasing your analytical and innovative thinking.
• Management Expertise: Engineering management experience in a factory operations environment is essential, preferably project management and/or factory engineering management, demonstrating your capability to lead teams and manage processes effectively.

What you need to know

• Development: We offer you many opportunities to develop yourself further. For example with leadership training, team coaching or international missions.
• In good hands: To help you settle in quickly and learn everything you need to know right from the start, we'll create an individual onboarding plan for you.
• 30 days of vacation: Breaks and time off are important. That's why all Nestlé employees have more vacation days than required by law.
• Corporate benefits: As an employee you get our products and many other things cheaper. For example smartphones, furniture, your next vacation, fashion & much more.
• Company pension: Our Nestlé Pension Fund has been advising our employees for many years.

Become part of something big

Nestlé offers endless possibilities for you. We are a leader in nutrition, health and wellness with our brands that are loved around the world. A real opportunity to positively impact the lives of millions. From breakfast to dinner, from medical nutrition to healthy snacks for four-legged friends, from sustainable farming to eco-friendly packaging. So much is already here, now make it even better. In a team of diverse characters learning with and from each other - be a force for good.