We at Pfeifer & Langen are on the way to becoming an agile, digitized and data-driven company in order to increase our competitiveness. In order to further advance this process, we need your support and have created the new function of „Process Owner Extraction“. If you enjoy developing the extraction-diffusion process further and working together with automation specialists in interdisciplinary teams of internal and external software developers, modelers and process engineers, then get in touch. Help to perfect the extraction using a simulation model based on beets – raw juice quality, energy consumption and sugar yield with the support of the latest measurement and automation technology. Testing the transferability of the solutions from the pilot plant to your location and bringing them to a company-wide solution for all locations in order to realize our vision of an extraction process that is optimally adapted to the beet quality.
Tasks
- Further development of our extraction process (from beet to raw juice and press schnitzel) to best-in-class technology, targeting our operational KPIs (Quality, use of materials, heat consumption, stability, minimum manual use) in Cooperation with Process Owner Heat Management and Control Application developers to improve
- Applying the possibilities that digitization and new technologies offer to further develop the extraction process, for example in the development of the digital twin and improvement of the process control in cooperation with our plants, data analysts, data scientists and software developers .
- Continuous coordination with the stakeholders: plant managers, shift supervisors, Control room drivers, GTO automation, GPO maintenance and external service providers
- Provision and development of technical instructions, knowledge transfer, Information events on the latest developments in the field of extraction
- Supporting the training of colleagues through training and practical On-site learning training in connection with projects and mentoring
Your profile
- Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, food technology, chemical engineering or similar
- 3 – 5 years of professional experience in the sugar industry
- Fluent in English and German / Polish
- Ability to develop ideas, concepts and solutions at European level, to discuss with stakeholders and to implement them across the board
- Excellent project management skills
- Deep knowledge of sugar technology and processes from beet to silo
- Strong intercultural awareness and sensitivity with people in a multicultural environment and to develop joint solutions with them
- Travel activity in Europe
- Office in one of our 9 plants in D / PL, remote work depending on project status 20 – 100%