Baker Perkins, a Technology Brand of Coperion – owned by Hillenbrand, is a globally trusted technology provider for the food industry. Operating from the UK and USA, we offer comprehensive solutions, from process expertise, engineering excellence to lifetime support for leading brands worldwide.
Our continuous innovation in equipment and processes, whilst utilising the latest technology, ensures we provide our customers with highly efficient and cost-effective solutions. Join us at Baker Perkins, where we push boundaries in the food industry.
We are now searching for our Biscuit & Baked Goods Process Technologist to join us at our site in Peterborough:
Biscuit & Baked Goods Process Technologist
Job Purpose
To be the Trusted Advisor both internally and externally on Biscuit production processes, from dough mixing through to end of line processing across the full range of traditional biscuit and cracker products.
Main Duties
As a key member of the Biscuit Sales team, you will be process support for:
- Provide process direction to the Sales Support team while generating technical solutions and generating proposals for our customers.
- Give process advice and review of equipment design with its effect on dough rheology and final baked products, mitigating delivery risk.
- Support customer visits and meetings with Sales Engineers to act as process trusted advisor, understanding our customer’s process requirements and ensuring Baker Perkins offers the optimum solution.
- Assessment of customers process requirements: co-ordinate and conduct process trials both internally in our test bakery and with customers providing written assessments and reporting, especially in Biscuits and Cookies production.
- As required support of the commissioning of process lines at our customer’s facilities, to optimise the equipment setup and end products as the line moves into full production.
- Work with the Applications Manger and Sales team across the brands of the Group, in identifying development opportunities in both current processes and new aligned processes.
Candidate Profile
- A background in food manufacturing, ideally with experience in a technologist role within the food industry, preferably in Patisserie / Baked Goods / Biscuits.
- Extensive knowledge across ingredients, equipment and manufacturing processes: recipe understanding of the biscuit / cookie production and its application on equipment
- Knowledge of dough rheology for the mixing systems, line processing for a wide range of biscuit types, (hard dough biscuits and soft dough cookies), through to baking and post oven processes.
- Experience with customer trials or final product trials
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and influence across departments and countries, working collaboratively to achieve goals
- A problem-solving mindset, drawing on experience to use a variety of approaches, including root cause analysis and innovative thinking
- Willingness to travel to worldwide customers’ sites when needed
This unique role fulfils a key element to the sales process for Baker Perkins: we welcome you to join us in “Shaping What Matters For Tomorrow”!
Who we are:
Coperion is an industry leader in compounding and extrusion, feeding and weighing, bulk material handling and service, bringing a wealth of know-how and experience to the market. Customers benefit from Coperion’s divisions of Polymer, Equipment & Systems, and Service that are optimally networked on a global basis to offer ultimate support in the design, manufacturing and implementation of ideal systems. Staffed by engineers, chemists, technicians and a variety of industry experts, these Divisions form a powerhouse of process solutions for their customers. Coperion is an Operating Company of Hillenbrand.
Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highly-engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders. To learn more, visit: www.Hillenbrand.com.
EEO: The policy of Hillenbrand Inc. is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. Additionally, Hillenbrand Inc. and our operating companies are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at [email protected] . In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. At Hillenbrand, everyone is welcome to apply and "Shape What Matters for Tomorrow".
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Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highly-engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders.
