Product Engineer
About the role
Job Description
As Product Engineer, you will ensure the successful realization of product requirements into compliant, scalable, and commercially viable products. Through intended specifications, product documentation, engineering delivery, and execution readiness, the role enables consistent implementation of approved product concepts across suppliers, markets, and regulatory environments. You will be involved early in product development and product selection, working with Range, Product Requirements, Sourcing, Packaging, Food Safety & Quality, Supply and suppliers. You will either work in Product Requirements team or Product Realization team. Product Requirements Co-develops and maintains intended specifications for global products and secures their successful realization. Ensures intended specifications accurately reflect approved requirements and support compliant, scalable, and consistent product implementation across markets. Product Realization Implements and maintain product documentation based on approved intended specifications, ensuring compliant and commercially viable execution across suppliers and markets. On a typical working day, you will:
- Co-develop and maintain the intended specification
- Translate intended specifications and approved requirements into realised product solutions
- Manage food products throughout the product lifecycle within defined frameworks
- Assess products against taste, sensory, quality and performance expectations
- Create and maintain accurate realised specifications
- Secure product compliance readiness for applicable markets
- Coordinate product validation, testing and technical assessments
- Work with suppliers to verify feasibility, manufacturability and product robustness
- Secure the quality and completeness of product information, certificates and technical documentation
- Identify product risks early and drive technical issue resolution
- Secure product and technical readiness before launch
- Lead product-related changes and improvements throughout the lifecycle
- Determine whether a change remains within the intended specification or requires escalation
- Lead product-related root-cause analysis and corrective actions
- Collaborate with Production Engineers where product and production causes interact
Qualifications
The role as Product Engineer requires you to:
- Experience in food-product engineering, food development, product realisation or a comparable technical role
- Understanding of how requirements and intended specifications translate into practical product solutions
- Knowledge of food safety, quality, regulatory and market-compliance requirements
- Experience with specifications, product information, certificates and technical documentation
- Understanding of sensory evaluation, product testing and validation
- Experience collaborating directly with suppliers
- Ability to assess product feasibility, robustness and readiness
- Structured analysis and practical engineering judgement
- Ability to balance customer expectations, compliance, speed, cost and execution reality
- Relevant educational background in food engineering, food science, product development, process engineering or an equivalent discipline
It's a plus if you are also:
- Experience with both developed and selected supplier products
- Knowledge of product and packaging information systems
- Experience working across several markets or regulatory environments
We welcome your application
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