Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blueland is reimagining everyday cleaning essentials with safe, environmentally friendly products. The Process Engineer will join the Innovation team, serving as the bridge between the Formulation team and contract manufacturing partners to optimize formulas for manufacturability while ensuring product quality and efficacy.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with the Formulation team during development to fully understand each formula, including functional ingredients, excipients, specifications, and product claims
- Identify formulation “levers” that can be adjusted to improve manufacturability while maintaining product performance, quality, specifications, and claims
- Understand the equipment, capabilities, and limitations of each contract manufacturer to ensure formulas are designed for successful production
- Evaluate excipients and processing aids that may improve manufacturing efficiency, flowability, mixing, filling, stability, or overall process robustness
- Translate formulation requirements into practical manufacturing guidance for powders and liquids
- Support troubleshooting during scale-up, validation, and commercial production
- Work cross-functionally with Formulation, Quality, Operations, Procurement, and Contract Manufacturing teams to resolve process and formula-related challenges
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related technical field
- Experience working as a Process Engineer with powder and liquid formulations
- Strong understanding of formulation, scale-up, and manufacturing processes
- Ability to assess contract manufacturer equipment capabilities and limitations
- Experience troubleshooting production issues and recommending practical formula or process adjustments
- Knowledge of excipients, processing aids, and raw materials that support manufacturability
- Comfortable balancing manufacturability, product claims, specifications, quality, and cost
- Background in household cleaning, personal care, or adjacent consumer products
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Stock options
- Generous paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Paid civic engagement days
- Paid parental leave
- 401k (employee contribution)
- Professional development stipends
- Remote work reimbursements
- Various discounts to like-minded companies
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