Confectionery Application Engineer

Baker Perkins a technology brand of Coperion owned by Hillenbrand is a trusted technology provider in the food industry operating from the UK and USA. We offer comprehensive solutions from design to lifetime support for leading brands worldwide. Our continuous innovation in equipment and processes along with services leveraging the latest technology ensures efficiency and costeffectiveness.

We are now hiring for our site in Peterborough:

Confectionery Application Engineer

Context

The confectionery product range covers the following product groups:

• Hard Candy
  • Including sugar free alternatives
• Gummies and Jellies. (Pectin and Gelatine including nutraceutical ingredients)
• Alternative gumming agents such as carrageenan agar etc.
• Caramel and Toffee
• Fondant.

For each product group Baker Perkins has a range of equipment. Generally including both the cooking system (Kitchen) and Depositing technologies. Baker Perkins is among the world leaders in this sector.

Job Purpose

To be the technical authority and provide technical leadership for the Baker Perkins Confectionary process business.

Main Duties

• Be a Sales support and a Trusted Advisor
  • Supporting / defining machine scope
  • Proposing creative solutions to challenging opportunities
  • Visiting the customer with the Salesperson to establish their requirements to ensure best technical fit. Act as a Technical expert for our customers.
• Reduce technical risks
  • Determining the technical risks on the contract
  • Manage the main risks and the mitigating actions taken / or required during the bid and engineering phases
• Overall Technical Responsibility for the Confectionary equipment range
  • Define and agree with the Process Team technical solutions for each customer proposal.
  • Ensuring our equipment are fit for purpose and meet market requirements
  • Understanding the process capabilities and the capabilities of the equipment being the final arbiter in terms of problem solving
  • Technical support for our Design department but also for our Field Service teams and After Sales teams as and when required
• Help the development
  • Determine the future direction of Development within the Confectionary product range. This includes new or additional machines incremental development major upgrades and redesigns of existing machines. We are planning to continue building our company expertise thanks to this role.
  • Understanding the needs of the customers in the Confectionary market (process trends cost of ownership throughput rates etc)
  • Understanding of market trends and competitors capabilities.

Candidate Profile

• Significant experience in Confectionery equipment and production processes deployed in this industry an experience in other Liquid Process Industry can be transferable (soups chocolate dairy)
• Mechanical or Electrical background with some skills in Controls Engineering to understand the different steps of the production at our customers sites
• Capability to undertake technical analysis in order to solve problems and steer developments
• Creativity and technical ideas
• Solutiondriven and customeroriented sensibility
• Good communication skills
• Team spirit and sense of commitment
• Ability to travel around the world for some weeks per year

This unique role is a keyjob for our leading Brand. Join us in Shaping What Matters For Tomorrow!

Who we are:

Coperion is an industry leader in compounding and extrusion feeding and weighing bulk material handling and service bringing a wealth of knowhow and experience to the market. Customers benefit from Coperions divisions of Polymer Equipment & Systems and Service that are optimally networked on a global basis to offer ultimate support in the design manufacturing and implementation of ideal systems. Staffed by engineers chemists technicians and a variety of industry experts these Divisions form a powerhouse of process solutions for their is an Operating Company of Hillenbrand.

Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highlyengineered missioncritical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large attractive end markets including durable plastics food and recycling. Guided by our Purpose Shape What Matters For Tomorrow we pursue excellence collaboration and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates customers communities and other stakeholders. To learn more visit: .

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