Kerry

Process Lead - RDA

Kerry  •  Bengaluru, IN (Onsite)  •  9 hours ago
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Job Description

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

The Process Lead is responsible for Developing Bread crumb, improving productivity, ensuring food safety and quality compliance and leading continuous improvement initiatives. The role focuses developing new product, inducting new technologies, commissioning new product lines and process development.

Key responsibilities

Process & Production Excellence

  • Lead process optimization initiatives across mixing, baking, drying, grinding, seasoning, packaging, and utility operations.
  • Analyze production data and implement corrective actions to improve process capability and stability.
  • Develop and maintain process standards, work instructions, and SOPs.

Continuous Improvement

  • Identify and coordinate cost-saving projects related to FG, Raw materials, utilities, labor, and packaging.
  • Lead root cause analysis using tools such as 5 Why, Fishbone, FMEA, and Pareto Analysis.
  • Improve line efficiencies and reduce process variability.
  • Leading teams to execute business transformation projects.

New Product & Innovation

  • New product development and commercialization activities.
  • Lead plant trials and scale-up activities from pilot to commercial production.
  • Establish process parameters and product specifications.

Engineering & Capital Projects

  • Participate in equipment selection, commissioning, and validation activities.
  • Support capacity expansion and process automation projects.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on process design improvements.

Qualifications and skills

  • Bachelor's Degree in Food Technology or related field.
  • Master's degree/MBA preferred.
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt preferred.
  • 10–15+ years of experience in food manufacturing.
  • Experience in bakery, breadcrumbs, snacks, cereal, confectionery, or FMCG manufacturing preferred.
  • Proven track record of delivering productivity, quality, and cost improvement projects.
Kerry

About Kerry

Every day, millions of people throughout the world consume foods and beverages containing Kerry’s taste and nutrition solutions. We are committed to making the world of food and beverage better for everyone, and dedicated to our Purpose, Inspiring Food, Nourishing Life.

At Kerry, we are proud to provide our customers – some of the world’s best-known food, beverage and pharma brands – with the expertise, insights and know-how they need to deliver products that people enjoy and feel better about consuming.

Kerry is a company rich in heritage and resources. Over the past five decades, our focus on changing lifestyles, the globalisation of food tastes and ever-evolving consumer needs has brought us to a market-leading global position.

Today, we are firmly established as a world leader in the food, beverage and pharma industries, with 22,000+ staff and 150+ innovation and manufacturing centres across 30+ countries.

Learn more about Kerry: www.kerry.com

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Naas, IE
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
kerry.com
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