• Plan, manage and implement R&D technology development projects to drive development of a minimal technical solution for commercial processes.
• Develop and maintain a Technology Development Plan, which outlines a project's tasks, milestone dates, status, and allocation of resources to stakeholders and other interested parties.
• Establish deadlines and maintain progress towards milestones.
• Work with Resource Managers in a Matrix environment to ensure Technology Development projects are resourced to achieve objectives on the required timeline.
• Manage project team members and sub-stream leads in a Matrix environment, including Researchers, engineers, operations and plant personnel, and Business/Commercial liaisons.
• Utilize Project Management best practices to ensure that project risks are identified and mitigated.
• Identify project and technical objectives with key stakeholders and project sponsors and gain alignment.
• Ensure that key stakeholders are informed at key stages of development.
• Manage change of scope and resources as projects progress.
• Development of Technology Transfer Package at the closure of technology development projects.
• Understand technical, commercial, and operations interests and concerns in the process.
• Direct Researchers to drive highest impact experimentation and trialing to maximize overall value of a commercialized process.
• Write detail reports and prepare comprehensive presentations.

• A Bachelor's degree in Process Engineering, Food Technology, Chemical or Biological Engineering, Chemistry or Biology or related fields is required.
• A Master's degree is desired.

• Three to five years of experience in process operation, engineering design, and/or R&D in the food and/or chemical industry project management.
• The ideal individual has experience working across functional groups to manage long term, highly resourced projects.
• Solid understanding of plant operations, financial analysis, and technology is required.
• Certification or training in Project Management (i.e. PMI) is required.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills to communicate with managers, engineering, and R&D staff via reports and presentations.
• Effective communication of engineering data with research, operations, research, and business staff.
• Strong organizational skills to manage highly resourced projects on established timelines.
• Strong leadership skills to encourage open collaboration, provide technical expertise, and positively contribute to research teams.
• Able to function within matrix project management environment.
• Must possess well-developed analytical skills to coordinate with technical leads and drive decisions to reduce risk and generate a minimal technical solution.

• Some travel may be required.
• Comfortable managing/participating in various projects concurrently.
• Candidate will need to work within established company and laboratory safety guidelines.
• Willingness to spend time in plant and pilot areas, tolerate extreme temperatures, walk long distances, stand, climb stairs and ladders and move through close spaces.

• Project management, leadership, time management and prioritization, communication, integrity, mechanical and technical aptitude, analytical ability, problem solving, independent judgment, teamwork, persistence, detail oriented and safety commitment

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