Process Engineering Manager, CIP at Oatly

Process Engineering Manager, CIP at Oatly

Ready to help build the future of food? Join us to drive the CIP Development at Oatly and create clean, efficient and sustainable factories for a plant-based future!

WHY OATLY?

Across the world people’s consumption habits and diets are evolving to be more plant-based. Enter Oatly, the #1 oat based dairy alternative producer in the world with products spanning multiple categories.

Our sole purpose as a company is to make it easy for people to turn what they eat and drink into personal moments of healthy joy without recklessly taxing the planet’s resources in the process.

Sustainability, nutritional health and trust are at the heart of what we do. We are building a culture that constantly upgrades each other so we can upgrade the planet. This is a company that shows great respect and a fearless approach to make positive change. Does this feel exciting? Well, this is where you come in.

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO

As our Process Engineering Manager, within the specialist field CIP (Clean in Place), you will develop, improve, and drive the implementation of the Site Design Standard for CIP process across the entire Sustainable Operation (SO) network globally.

You will belong to our Global Engineering team and be responsible for the process design in Capex and innovation projects, mainly focusing on CIP design and optimization as subject matter expert. In addition, you will drive improvements together with our factories to optimize our CIP-process.

Here’s the main elements of the role:

• Support and enable the business by delivering engineering work, meeting set targets aligned with the overall Sustainable Operations strategy for business impact.
• Participate and lead activities during all phases of the project, from design to commissioning and startup.
• The role focuses on engineering design work and execution to improve efficiency for Oatly's installed assets and improve sustainability, safety, quality, work environment, and much more.
• Lead the CIP Engineering network of CIP experts across Operations to facilitate the sharing of best practices, spread knowledge, and solve problems together.
• Approving new technologies within the core competence according to Oatly standards, EU, US, Asia, and other local laws/regulations.

But, you know. These are just the things we can think of right now! This might be the job today, but tomorrow brings more change, so being light on your feet and willing to embrace the unknown is a verrrrrry big help.

In this role, you will report to our Global Director of Engineering, and the location for this role is Landskrona or remote Sweden. International travel to different manufacturing locations is required. In this role, you will be traveling 50-60 days per year and be away up to 1‑2 weeks.

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO BRING TO THE TABLE

You have an advanced degree in Chemical Engineering (food, pharma, biotechnology or equivalent). We also believe that you have at least 5-7 years of process design within Food, Pharma, FMCG, preferably in brewery or plant-based product production.

Other key competencies & experiences:

• Strong knowledge of the food production/food process industry and proven knowledge of food processing technology, hygienic design, and CIP validation and optimization.
• Good knowledge of instruments supporting the digitalization of the CIP process.
• Experience in thermodynamics, mass balance, heat and momentum transfer, and basic knowledge in chemical reactions.

WHO WE NEED YOU TO BE

We think your oatsomeness is built upon the following qualities:

• You are a passionate advocate for sustainability who strives to create societal shifts and drive the plant-based revolution.
• You have problem‑solving skills essential for identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
• You are a self‑starter who enjoys building from scratch and implementing sustainable processes, structures, and tools.
• You are highly collaborative and understand that our success as a company depends on our ability to work together to find innovative solutions.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and chaos, energized by the challenge of building something lasting that benefits both the world and its people.

To be the perfect fit for Oatly, we believe that you are passionate about safety, quality, and sustainability! You are an improvement‑driven person with an analytic and structured approach. You have social competence and enjoy working independently as well as together with others. You are, of course, excellent at communicating, both verbally and in writing, in English and perhaps in Swedish.

Finally, we hope that you share our values and have a great interest to carry out our mission in order to make the world a little bit better.

Another bulleted list felt redundant, so we made this page talking about all the benefits we offer to sweeten the deal of working with us before you apply – if you’re curious, check out this fancy page right here!

YOUR APPLICATION

As you can probably tell, we’re a norm‑breaking company. For us, diversity and differences are an obvious asset. We know that amazing candidates can sometimes be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box, and that makes us really sad. So please trust your gut and pop in your application if it’s feeling right. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, let’s do this together! It will be fun!

Last day of application: 1st of April.

We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested, please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there. This will ensure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone!

Love Oatly XOXO

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Department

Sustainable Operations/Supply Chain

Role

Engineering

Locations

Multiple locations