Founded in 1984, Best Formulations LLC, a diversified nutraceutical and personal care company headquartered in City of Industry, California, is a contract manufacturer of thousands of branded SKUs, including high quality nutritional supplements including softgels, tablets, capsules, powders, teas, dietary supplements, and vegetarian softgels.

About the role:

We are a trusted partner to our customers when it comes to innovation and have one of the strongest R&D, product formulation and technical teams in the industry. We are recognized as the leader in plant-based softgel innovation and our ability to encapsulate difficult formulas. We seek out innovation across our entire business and pass that knowledge and expertise to our customers.

As a Senior Process Engineer,  you will be responsible for all aspects of product scale-up and commercialization activities and supports operations by identifying and implementing process improvements to improve product quality, reduce operating costs, and increase production capacity. As an integral part of continuous improvement efforts, provides leadership, guidance and training to improve efficiencies in operations. This role will manage Jr engineer/s and technicians. Explores relevant enabling technologies, with a focus on driving cost savings. Provides functional technical support to R&D, Quality and other functional areas.

How will you contribute:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions. Essential job functions and duties include, but are not limited to:

• Work with R&D department on successful commercialization of the new products
• Creates, updates, and enforces SOPs and JIs, as required. Maintain effective material loss and determine optimal process operating parameters
• Subject matter expert in capsule, tablets and help the production team with consistent product quality improvement and troubleshooting
• Provide guidelines in process improvement and continuously optimize the process
• Trains operators, leads, supervisors and Jr Engineers on new equipment, JIs, and SOPs.
• Conducts & leads production trouble-shooting, identifies and implements viable solutions.
• Identifies and delivers advancements in continuous product/process improvements.
• Continuously explores, identifies and develop innovative proprietary solutions and cost savings.
• Lead or assist in CAPA or DOE activities.
• Review formulations, MBR, Batch records, protocols, change controls and other process instructions to confirm capability and capacity.
• Generate Process Qualifications Protocols (PQs) and perform Process Qualifications.
• Work closely with R&D and Engineering on equipment selection process.
• Responsible for organizing process validation or process review
• Maintains accurate records of all projects and assignments.
• Complies with all Company policies and procedures, including safety rules and regulations.
• Maintains a safe work environment and operates in a safe manner.
• Perform other job duties, as assigned by management.