Senior Process Engineer I - Biscuit R&D (North America)

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
As a Senior Process Engineer I, you will play a key role in enabling ingredient transitions and process changes across the North America biscuit portfolio. You will lead the design, assessment, and implementation of process solutions that ensure smooth material transitions, capital investment readiness, and robust process capability across multiple brands and plants. This role requires strong technical expertise, project leadership, and the ability to collaborate across R&D, Manufacturing, and Business Development to deliver consumer-preferred products with excellence.
How you will contribute

• Lead process design, capability assessment, and deployment for ingredient changes, transitions, and new material introductions across multiple brands and sites.
• Conduct capital investment investigations and develop design recommendations to enable smooth transitions and ensure manufacturing feasibility.
• Drive end-to-end process development, from pilot plant and line trials through commercialization, ensuring technical rigor and compliance with GMP and HACCP.
• Partner with Product Development, Business Development, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Quality to proactively identify risks, troubleshoot issues, and deliver robust solutions.
• Generate, update, and maintain accurate process specifications and technical documentation aligned to consumer and business requirements.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders and provide technical recommendations that balance consumer experience, quality, and productivity.
• Contribute to intellectual property and competitive advantage creation through process innovation.

What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Technical depth in process engineering, with experience leading ingredient/material transitions in a manufacturing environment. P
• Proven ability to design and scale processes, assess capability, and deliver solutions across brands/plants.
• Strong project management skills: able to prioritize, manage complexity, and deliver multiple projects on time.
• Demonstrated ability to solve technical problems proactively and communicate solutions clearly to cross-functional teams.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills with R&D, Operations, and Business teams.
• Curiosity, learning agility, and a drive to ensure technical rigor in all work.

More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Experience leadingmaterial changes, or transitions within FMCG.
• Exposure to capital project design and justification.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated executional excellence and personal leadership.

Education / Certifications:
Bachelor's in engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Food, or related field).
Job specific requirements:

• Minimum 5 years in food industry process development, commercialization, or engineering with a proven track record of successful product launches and process improvements.
• Process design and scale-up, risk assessment, problem-solving, project leadership, statistical analysis (e.g., Minitab), strong communication skills.
• Ability to taste and evaluate biscuit products, including those with varied allergen profiles.

Travel requirements:
Up to 40% (domestic and international)
Work schedule:
East Hanover, NJ (Hybrid, minimum 3 days in office)
The base salary range for this position is $83,800 to $115,225; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
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Job Type
Regular
Process Development & Engineering
Science & Engineering