Project Engineer, Sustainability, L'Oréal For The Future, L'Oréal Operations

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Somerset, NJ, New Jersey

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New Jersey

Somerset, NJ

Manufacturing

Full - Time

01-Jul-2026

Job Title: Project Engineer – L4TF, L’Oréal for the Future, (Sustainability) Projects

Reports To:   Operational Excellence - AVP

Location: Franklin, NJ

Who We Are: For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty   in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L'Oréal Operations, we create innovative, inclusive, and sustainable beauty together with our business partners by designing, developing, sourcing, manufacturing, and distributing over 6 billion products globally every year. We support over 36 brands across four L’Oréal divisions. We are consumer-oriented, and we act responsibly all along the value chain. Come join our dynamic team!

What You Will Do:

This role will be a technical role, mostly focused on sustainability projects (but not limited to) across the Franklin facility. The scope includes analyzing opportunities, identifying ideas, defining scope, funding and managing implementation. The sustainability projects will be targeting 3 main areas: water conservation and recycling, energy usage reduction and waste generation, touching the areas the factory (Facilities & Utilities, Processing and Packaging).

• Manage site water and energy loss maps, understanding main opportunities to improve.

• Define projects pipeline, feasibility studies and justification required ahead of implementation.

• Responsible for scope definition, cost estimate, funding strategy and execution.

• Manage contractors working on the projects, ensuring they are following all safety and quality requirements and that they are delivering required scope of work.

• Own end-to-end project execution, from conception to turnover to operations or facilities team, including validation process.

• Support L'Oreal safety, health, and environmental programs.

• Maintain an effective labor/employee relations environment.

• Develop, implement, and oversee all necessary record systems.

• Manage, implement, and support all L'Oreal policies including, but not limited to, the Corporation's Equal Employment Opportunity policy.

• Perform other duties as necessary or required.

What We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering

• 1-3 experience with u tilities systems, bulk manufacturing processes and/or chemical engineering operations.

• Technical knowledge (by education or experience) of utilities systems, such as water, steam, HVAC, etc. is desirable.

• Capable of managing medium-to-large capital investments.

• Work well in a fast-paced environment and be able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

• Demonstrate excellent people management skills including the ability to develop a team of individuals capable of producing extraordinary results.

• Demonstrate the L’Oreal competencies including but not limited to creative problem solving, decision making, achievement orientation, cultivation of talent and strong communication skills.

What’s In It For You:

• Compensation: $65,400- $91,500

• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)

• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)

• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)

• Learning & Development Opportunities for Career Progression (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)

• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)

• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to access job openings or apply for a job on this site as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by contacting [email protected] . If you need assistance to accommodate a disability, you may request an accommodation at any time.

Our Safe Together Plan: Your safety is our highest priority. We will proceed with caution and adhere to enhanced protection standards to ensure our sites are safe for all employees. We must all operate with the shared responsibility for each other’s health & safety in mind.