Process and Project Engineer (W/M)

As a global key player in yeasts and fermentation, Lesaffre designs, manufactures and markets innovative solutions for Baking, Food taste & pleasure, Health care and Biotechnology.

Family group born in northern France in 1853, now a multi-national and a multicultural company, Lesaffre is committed to working with confidence to better nourish and protect the planet.

In close collaboration with its clients and partners, Lesaffre employs 11 000 people in more than 50 countries.

Lesaffre achieves a turnover of 3 billion euros.

Reporting to the Environmental Process Manager, you will be responsible for a range of tasks enabling the Group's plants to comply with the regulations applying to their various discharges, both aqueous and gaseous. You will contribute to the Group's competitiveness by reducing investment and operating costs (more efficient, innovative processes, limiting water and energy consumption).

As an Process & project Engineer, your main tasks will be :

• Provide support to Group plants (pollution assessments, treatment simulations, proposals for suitable processes, etc.) in their choice and implementation of new treatment processes.
• Ensures on yours fields of expertise the complementary resources to support subsidiaries and transversal projects to allow them to be compliant regarding the regulations applying to their Waste Water (WW) and air emissions.
• Be the referent for concentration's processes (multiple effects evaporation, MVR systems, potash salts crystallization).
• Take part in industrial trials linked to the improvement of a process or the installation of new equipment (pilot studies for sizing, participation in commissioning and acceptance).
• Take part in projects definition (SOW, PFD, CAPEX/OPEX pre-costing), then in detailed studies and contribute to the start-up of new installations. You define and maintain standards based on feedback from subsidiaries and on the evolution of available technologies.
• Draw up specifications for supplier consultation, and lead consultations and comparisons; you guarantee the quality of process choices in connection with the Process Manager.
• Take part in purchasing negotiations, from a technical point of view, with the Group CAPEX department and the purchasing department of the subsidiary concerned.
• Support Engineering Department project managers throughout equipment construction and acceptance (FAT, SAT, with participation in establishing tests protocols).
• Maintain a technology and regulatory watch in liaison with the relevant departments.

Profile:

• General engineering degree (INSA, Agro, ...) or equivalent university degree, with a specialization in environmental and energy engineering (biological processes, physical-chemical processes, Evaporation and Crystallization units (potassium salts)).
• Industrial experience, ideally operational.
• Able to work in English and ideally in Spanish.
• Mobile, with frequent international travel (20/30% of your time).

General skills:

• Ability to work in project mode with a variety of contacts in different cultural contexts,
• Ability to adapt, combined with a sense of customer/partner relations,
• Rigor and method combined with the ability to question oneself and to demonstrate realism and pragmatism.
• Autonomy and sense of innovation

What Lesaffre can offer you : 

• Join a family business rich in a long history with human-oriented values with a mission: To Nourish and Protect our Planet, 
• Evolve in an enriching work environment and a multicultural context 
• You will experience intellectual challenges within a multi-expertise network.

At Lesaffre, diversity is a strength that enriches our culture and our teams. We are committed to offering you a work environment where you can thrive, regardless of your background, gender, age or abilities. We encourage all applications, as we believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our ability to innovate and meet the challenges of tomorrow.