New Culture · 5 months ago
Process Engineer/Senior Process Engineer: Downstream Processing
San Leandro, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$115K/yr - $160K/yr
5+ years expNew Culture is a Bay Area-based, venture-backed startup focused on transforming the dairy industry to an animal-free future. They are seeking a Process Engineer/Senior Process Engineer to lead the deployment of downstream processes, support CDMO operations, and collaborate with various teams to ensure product quality and capacity requirements are met.
Food and Beverage
No H1B
Responsibilities
Leading the safe, efficient and robust deployment of New Culture’s downstream processes to pilot and manufacturing facilities
Providing on-site and remote support for CDMO operations including generation of tech transfer packages, review of SOPs, batch records and campaign reports, troubleshooting, reconciliation of data required to validate scale-up success, and identification of continuous improvement opportunities
Working closely with development and operations teams to select, specify and support commissioning of any new DSP equipment and systems needed to meet New Culture’s product quality and capacity requirements
Providing project management support to ensure alignment between New Culture’s Process Development, Scale-up, Product & Commercial teams, CDMO partners, and logistics providers
Performing scale-up /scale-down experiments at laboratory scale as needed to support efficient, on-spec scale-up
Providing limited on-site microbial fermentation support at pilot and production facilities
Developing, reviewing and maintaining process and cost models for continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
BS Degree in Chemical/Biochemical Engineering or closely related discipline
5-10 years of relevant industry experience in downstream processing for food or bio-industrials. Experience with at least 3 of the following downstream operations in a pilot plant or production environment is required: cell disruption, centrifugation, distillation, filtration, reactive separations, crystallization, chromatography, and drying
Significant previous experience leading tech transfer activities at CMDO sites
Strong safety awareness, pro-active compliance with New Culture and CDMO EHS policies
Ability to work closely and co-operatively with an interdisciplinary team including vendors, development staff, and operations teams
Strong organizational and cross-functional communication skills
Ability to travel up to 25%, including some international travel
Ability to lift up to 25lb, work standing up for up to 4hrs, and walk up and down stairs
A desire to develop cutting-edge fermentation technology to create delicious, impactful food products
Authorization to work in the US
Preferred
Experience with microbial fermentation processes
Experience working with dairy or other food proteins
Previous startup experience
Company
New Culture
New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$28.5MKey Investors
CJ CheilJedang Corp.Evolv Ventures
2022-11-03Corporate Round
2021-11-22Series A· $25M
2020-07-14Seed
Leadership Team
Matt Gibson
CEO/Co-founder
Inja Radman
Co-founder & CSO/CTO
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