Manufacturing Technical Services Specialist - Franklin Park, United States - Nestlé Health Science

Nestlé Health Science

Verified Company

Franklin Park, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Manufacturing Technical Services Specialist

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life, Nature's Bounty, Vital Proteins, Orgain, Nuun, BOOST, Carnation Breakfast Essentials, Peptamen, Compleat Organic Blends, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolicrelated diseases.
At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

Position Summary:

As the Manufacturing Technical Services Specialist, you will play a crucial role in supporting the formulation and manufacturing process for our powder products. Working collaboratively with multiple teams, you will have the chance to make a significant impact by improving existing products, addressing manufacturing issues, evaluating new technologies and ingredients, seeking cost savings, and maintaining valuable networks of external partners.
Your expertise and contributions will be instrumental in driving innovation and continuous improvement within operations. By working closely with crossfunctional teams, you will have the opportunity to enhance our products, optimize manufacturing processes, and explore new possibilities for growth.

Key Responsibilities:

Formulating nutritional supplement products in various forms to support manufacturing.
Assisting in creating and approving new raw material specifications, master batch records, change controls, deviations, or other required documentation for manufacturing existing inline products.
Assisting in scaling up, validating, and transferring technologies/processes to other internal manufacturing sites or external partners.
Defining and implementing solutions for routine tasks, ensuring milestones are achieved with highquality standards.
Providing technical support to manufacturing, including formulation or process improvement, formulation globalization, costsaving initiatives, and troubleshooting.
Interacting with crossfunctional teams such as Quality, Procurement, Product Development, Engineering, and Manufacturing to resolve issues during new product development or existing product improvement.
Negotiating timeline commitments among team members to achieve agreed objectives and completion of activities.
Rapidly communicating major changes to project plans to managers/directors.
Setting and refining individual priorities to remain focused on objectives and project milestones in rapidly changing circumstances.
Actively seeking innovative and more efficient ways of doing things, eliminating nonvalueadded steps in processes and procedures.
Exploring and sharing new scientific information, technologies, products, and processes within the Science and Technology community.
Building awareness of external developments through attendance/presentations at trade associations or scientific meetings.
Maintaining external collaborations with suppliers, academia, and professional bodies.
Performing comprehensive, sophisticated, and critical evaluation of own data.
Ensuring that all internal and external work activities are conducted in accordance with appropriate standards, Company policies, laws, quality standards, SOPs, etc.

Experience & Education Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Science, or a related discipline. Extensive relevant industry experience will be considered in lieu of an undergraduate degree.
Experience with laboratory activities, technology transfers, Quality by Design, and/or Operational Excellence tools.
Proficiency in using scientific principles to develop or optimize formulation and manufacturing processes.
Strong laboratory and experimental skills, data analysis, and written and verbal reporting.
Preferably, a successful track record in the development of powder products.
Working knowledge of powder blending, filling, and packaging equipment is preferred.
Excellent communication and problemsolving