R&D Engineering Co-Op - Process Development

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

Want to help us make a difference?

Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.

Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.

This is a regional role based in pilot plant and manufacturing locations specializing in innovation, characterization, and process development for Roquette’s plant-based ingredients using various traditional and advanced techniques. More specifically, this role will support the day-to-day activities the R&D Process Development team. The role requires extensive pilot plant and laboratory work, assisting R&D engineers and scientists as directed.

Location :

Geneva, IL

Responsibilities :

• Work with R&D and the Manufacturing teams to learn the key sampling locations throughout a production process and take samples for later analysis.
• Work with R&D and Quality teams to learn and perform analytical testing and data analyses.
• Build strong working relationships with R&D and the teams at Keokuk.
• Learn all safety rules and follow them.
• Provide support to R&D team for protein and polyol pilot plant experiments and trialsExecute lab process and pilot experiments defined by R&D process engineers and scientists following equipment SOP’s and operating standards
• Maintain food processing plant sanitation standards, including equipment CIP and other cleaning as needed
• Responsible for operating and basic trouble shooting of lab and pilot equipment
• Maintain a clean, sanitary, safe and well-organized working environment in the pilot plant, storage room, and boiler room.
• Assist with receipt of products and ingredients, storage of samples, accurately weighing ingredients and products, preparing products and samples for evaluation.
• Maintain pilot plant equipment and documentation as required by GMP programs.
• Perform all duties with accuracy for quality results.
• Identify and communicate equipment and facility improvement options / issues to supervisor.
• Other tasks and independent projects as assigned.
• Commit and act, under all circumstances, in accordance to the values and principles of Roquette code conduct / Ethics, as well as Quality and Safety policies.

REQUIREMENTS

• Junior or in-coming Senior level student in an accredited Chemical and Mechanical engineering degree program with a minimum GPA of 3.2 within the degree program.
• Ability to : Maintain a safe and orderly work environment, maintain, record, and review SOPs, proper communication skills, work independently, exercise initiative and good judgment, and solve routine problems without assistance, climb ladders, frequently lift, carry and / or push light to heavy materials as well as stand and walk most of the day. Flexibility to easily transition from one task to another. Be trained to safely operate rotating equipment.
• Adaptable, independent, and solutions driven with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Hands on person and able to multi-task.

If you identify yourself in this position, please apply by uploading your resume and let's start the journey together !

Roquette is proud to be a global company where you can find personal and professional growth through multiple diverse experiences.

Roquette believes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion must be woven into everything we do, from the products we make, through the relationships we build with our partners, and most importantly within the teams we create and how we interact together.

As we continue to grow, Roquette understands that to be successful we must always be inclusive in our approach, by creating a workforce that represents the world we live in, and the communities and customers we serve.

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