Process Engineering Positions

Process Engineer

Manus works across industries and value chains to accelerate the transition to BioAlternatives – better performing and more sustainable versions of complex molecules traditionally sourced from plants, animals, or fossil fuels. Our platform is proven to work across scales, bridging the Valley of Death between lab and manufacturing more efficiently and more reliably to deliver the benefits of biotechnology today.

Manus is seeking an experienced Process Engineer to serve as the technical subject matter expert (SME) for separations, liquid and dry powder handling, drying, and finished-product manufacturing. This is a hands-on leadership role for a process expert who thrives in a dynamic, cross-functional environment and brings rigor and data-driven judgment to optimizing process systems. As the final technical authority for designing new unit operations and improving existing ones, the successful candidate will own process performance, mentor engineers, and drive capacity, yield, and reliability gains from pilot through commercial scale.

Opportunity – For motivated, results-oriented team members, our growth creates opportunities for personal and professional advancement.

Technical authority — Serve as the final technical authority for the design, scale-up, and optimization of unit operations across separations, liquid and dry powder handling, drying, and product manufacturing.

Process performance — Own process KPIs (recovery, yield, throughput, purity, energy use, and reliability) lead data-driven troubleshooting and root-cause analysis to sustain and improve them.

Scale-up & development — Lead process development from piloting through commercial scale, including mass and energy balances, scale-up calculations, and technology transfer.

Equipment & design — Specify, evaluate, and commission process equipment — separations, evaporation/concentration, crystallization, dryers, and powder handling and packaging — and develop PFDs, P&IDs, mass balances, and equipment specifications.

Capital projects — Provide process leadership for capital projects: basis of design, equipment selection, FAT/SAT, and commissioning and qualification support.

Mentorship — Mentor and develop process and optimization engineers, building technical depth and consistent engineering practice across the team.

Cross-functional partnership — Partner with operations, quality, R&D, automation (DeltaV), and maintenance to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient manufacturing.

Safety & compliance — Embed process safety and food-safety / GMP requirements into process design and daily operation.

S. in Chemical Engineering or a closely related discipline.

• 8+ years of process engineering experience in chemical, food / ingredient, biotechnology, or comparable manufacturing.
• Demonstrated success scaling processes from pilot to commercial production.
• Strong command of mass and energy balances, unit-operations design, and process data analysis.
• Hands-on experience with PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specification, and commissioning.
• D. in Chemical Engineering or related field.

Experience with natural ingredients, food, nutraceutical, or fermentation-derived products.

Spray drying, fluid-bed drying, and powder packaging experience.

Familiarity with cGMP / FSMA and food-safety requirements.

Capital project leadership and Lean / Six Sigma background.

Reporting & team — Reports to [Director, Engineering]; provides technical leadership and mentorship to process and optimization engineers (matrix).

Location & travel — Based in Augusta, GA, with periodic support to additional manufacturing sites; travel up to ~15%.

Environment — Combination of office, pilot, and plant-floor work in a manufacturing setting;