Food Category Engineer (m/f/d)

In this role, you contribute to the innovation, deployment, and maintenance of category engineering knowledge for state-of-the-art and future manufacturing setups. You drive manufacturing excellence and align with R&D leads to set strategic priorities. You collaborate across Operations, R&D, and the Nestlé network to scale up innovations and standardize processes. The position offers hands-on industrialization of technologies and leadership in engineering within a global, cross-functional team.

• opportunity for leadership development
• individual onboarding plan
• 30 days of vacation
• corporate product and cross-brand discounts
• Nestlé Pension Fund
• leadership training and international missions

• Develop and deploy category engineering knowledge for current and future manufacturing setups
• Drive technology leadership and set strategic priorities with R&D Category Leads
• Collaborate with Operations and R&D to deliver rapid deployment modules and scale innovations
• Deploy and benchmark standards across Business, Operations, and R&D networks
• Industrialize technologies by implementing equipment in factories and markets, monitoring for issues

• Master in Engineering
• several years of R&D and/or industrial engineering operations experience
• experience in development and implementation of technologies and equipment concepts for food product lines
• engineering management experience in a factory operations environment
• ability to lead teams and manage processes effectively

• collaboration
• analytical thinking
• problem-solving
• technology development and implementation for food equipment concepts
• project management
• factory engineering management