Senior R&D Technician-Pilot Plant

Job description

The Unilever R&D centre in Shanghai is one of the 6 unilever R&D centres globally, whilst the U66 Pilot plant is key capability for the processing scaling-up unit in Shanghai R&D center, it supports innovations and re-novations for Personal care, Beauty&Well-beings, home care, Nutrition and Ice Creams.

This individual should have strong safety sense and will/may be responsible for the batch-making, RM/PM management, safety, and machinery management and maintain, he/she should have strong safety sense and proactive cooperation sense, willing to learn and support. He/she will support different BUs and BGs on the processing scaling-up, C&D and machinery maintaining. Also digital management will be part of his job;

He/she will support both global & regional innovation/renovation/value improvement projects in scaling-up and process optimization, along with miscellaneous product deployment tasks for unilever business, North Asia and beyond.

Key accountabilities are:

·  Batch making (and Lab if needed) and RM/PM management (30%);
·  Project management together with different BUs and BGs and safety (30%);
·  Machinery maintain and optimization support (30%);
·  Digital and molding set-up (10%);

Detailed below: 

A) Executing routine pilot management tasks:

·  Safety risk evaluation and avoidance;
·  RM/PM management and system maintaining, and shelves ordernary maintain;
·  Have basic RM knowledge on treatment, storage, pre-weigh and handling, such as dosing and mixing, temperature control;
·  Batch making (and Lab if needed) for processing scaling-up to support all BU and BG;
·  Project cross management with different BUs and BGs and booster projects progress and avoid of processing hurdles;
·  Machinery maintain & optimization, and coordination to solve, secure daily processing development going smoothly;
·  Lead safety related evaluation/optimization, e.g enzyme & flammable materials and etc, SHE sense needed;
·  Machine/Equipment knowledge required t, such as valves, flange, pumps, material texture, heating/cooling facility and etc;
·  Use LIMS/PLM to set up and manage RM inventory/Sampling/Formulation/Processing/Product Stability database.
·  Have the sense of Digital and molding sense, data capture, sensers and molding;
·  Have a certain level of data analysing capability to help on processing screening when processing routes design;

Critical success Factors for the Job

Key Skills

·  Batchlor Degree or above in Chemical Sciences / Engineering / application;
·  Ability to manage and coordinate multiple Processing design tasks
·  Good team player. Can seamlessly manage multiple interfaces in projects
·  Good communicator in English with logic;

Relevant Experience

·  Batchlor or above with 1-3 years related experience on process development or manufacturing experiences;
·  Rich experience on RMs and safety is preferred;
·  Experience on Machinery and maintaining, C&D is appreciated,
·  Machine/Equipment knowledge required, such as valves, flange, pumps, material texture, heating/cooling facility and etc, have the sense of material balance, heat balance and etc;
·  Experience with PC or B&W is preferred;

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