This is an active recruitment for our Brantford manufacturing facility and we welcome applications from qualified candidates interested in joining our growing team.

About The Role

The Project Engineer is responsible for coordinating and managing process and packaging engineering design, implementation, commissioning, and maintenance support activities across manufacturing operations. This role supports the Barry Callebaut Operating System (BCOS) by driving continuous improvement, standardization, operational excellence, food safety, quality, and cost optimization initiatives. The Project Engineer partners with cross-functional teams to develop and implement engineering solutions that enhance manufacturing performance, improve productivity, reduce waste, and support long-term business growth. The position is accountable for evaluating process requirements, developing engineering solutions, leading capital projects, and ensuring all deliverables meet or exceed process, packaging, quality, safety, environmental, and operational standards. The successful candidate will actively contribute to BCOS initiatives by identifying opportunities for efficiency improvements, implementing best practices, and leveraging data-driven decision-making to improve manufacturing systems and processes.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering & Continuous Improvement (BCOS)

- Champion BCOS principles by driving continuous improvement, standard work, loss elimination, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve safety, quality, productivity, reliability, sustainability, and cost performance.




- Evaluate emerging technologies and engineering solutions to optimize manufacturing effectiveness and support future growth.
- Support process and packaging line optimization through root cause analysis, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, R&D;, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to achieve business objectives and project deliverables.
- Ensure all engineering activities support food safety, quality systems, GMPs, HACCP requirements, and employee safety standards.

Engineering Design & Technical Expertise

- Design, install, commission, troubleshoot, and improve manufacturing processes and packaging systems.
- Develop equipment specifications, process designs, plant layouts, and engineering standards.
- Utilize engineering principles including mass transfer, heat transfer, and process flow analysis to optimize manufacturing operations.
- Support factory trials, commercialization initiatives, new product introductions, and R&D; activities.
- Create and review process flow diagrams, P&IDs;, engineering drawings, and line layouts using AutoCAD and related software.
- Analyze equipment performance and recommend modifications or upgrades to improve efficiency, throughput, reliability, and product quality.
- Ensure engineering designs comply with regulatory, environmental, and corporate standards.
- Develop technical documentation, operating procedures,



training materials, and commissioning plans.
- Create engineering calculations, presentations, reports, and paid-work workflows as required.

Project Management

- Lead capital and operational improvement projects from concept through implementation and project closeout.
- Identify stakeholders, gather requirements, and define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and budgets.
- Secure project funding and develop business cases supporting capital investment decisions.
- Manage procurement activities including development of Requests for Proposal (RFPs), vendor selection, contractor management, and contract administration.
- Lead project core team meetings and facilitate effective communication among stakeholders.
- Monitor and control project scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and risk.
- Provide regular project status updates and executive-level communications.
- Ensure successful project commissioning, startup, performance validation, and advantages realization.
- Accountable for project compliance with safety, environmental, food safety, and quality requirements.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner closely with plant engineers, corporate engineering teams, operations leaders, maintenance teams, and external service providers.
- Coordinate activities with quality teams responsible for raw materials, work-in-process, and finished product standards.
- Support production schedule requirements while balancing project execution priorities.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams and influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
- Manage contractors, consultants,

📌 Project Engineer (Brantford)
🏢 Barry Callebaut Group
📍 Brantford