Tetra Pak Equipment & Process Engr

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary

We are seeking a Tetra Pak Equipment & Process Engineer for a direct hire opportunity in Bakersfield, CA, supporting a high-volume food and beverage manufacturing environment. This full-time, exempt role is ideal for a senior hands-on process engineering professional with deep experience troubleshooting, repairing, optimizing, and improving Tetra Pak processing and aseptic beverage systems.

This is a highly visible technical leadership position for an engineer who can step onto the production floor, partner with maintenance and operations, identify complex process and equipment issues, and drive long-term reliability improvements. The work environment offers strong cross-functional collaboration, supportive leadership, and the opportunity to serve as the primary subject matter expert for critical beverage processing systems.

Key Responsibilities

- Serve as the plant technical expert for Tetra Pak processing equipment, aseptic beverage systems, and related process operations.
- Troubleshoot recurring equipment failures, process deviations, downtime events, automation issues, and production inefficiencies.
- Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to improve reliability, uptime, throughput, yields, and product quality.
- Support beverage processing operations including aseptic processing, UHT systems, thermal processing, blending, homogenization, CIP, product transfer, storage, and distribution systems.
- Partner with Controls Engineering and Automation teams to review PLC, HMI, recipe management, sequencing, alarms, instrumentation, and process control changes.
- Develop and maintain SOPs, troubleshooting guides, process centerlines, operating standards, and technical training documentation.

Compensation and Benefits

- Direct hire opportunity.
- Full-time, exempt position.
- Location: Bakersfield, CA.
- Salary: $110,000 to $130,000 DOE.
- Bonus potential.
- Schedule requires ability to support off-shift troubleshooting, shutdowns, startups, and critical production needs as required.

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For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, the Company is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact your staffing representative who will reach out to our HR team.

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This company offers growth and a great group of people to work with.

Company Description

This company offers growth and a great group of people to work with.