Are you a manager who gets energized by improving processes and coaching people? Do you have a passion for the food sector and want to use your technical knowledge to elevate efficiency and quality? At Gourmand Pastries, as a Process Engineering Manager, you'll have the opportunity to play a key role in connecting innovation and production. You'll act as a bridge between R&D and production, with one goal: achieving excellent operational performance with your team.
Our offer - A crunchy and sweet offering:
At Gourmand Pastries, you can count on an attractive salary supplemented by a range of fringe benefits, such as €8 meal vouchers, eco-vouchers, sports and culture vouchers, and even gift vouchers. We take care of your well-being with hospitalization and group insurance.
But our best advantage? It's our company culture.
We are known for our warm, family atmosphere where colleagues truly go the extra mile for each other. You'll join a team of driven, passionate people where initiative, autonomy, and ownership are valued and encouraged. Performance is in our DNA, but without elbow room. Our managers genuinely care about their team and create an environment in which you can grow with confidence and enthusiasm.
Everything starts with a good onboarding process and a warm welcome to Gourmand. But it doesn't stop there: we believe in lifelong learning and offer a wide range of training opportunities. Together we grow, as a team and as an organization.
This position offers a lot of variety and broad responsibility. There are also real opportunities for growth in the medium to long term. Because those who invest in themselves always get the chance to shine with us.
What can you expect as a Process Engineering Manager?
As a Process Engineering Manager, you will take the lead in monitoring the reliability, quality, and safety of our installations and processes.
Your role
As Process Engineering Manager, you will lead the process engineers in optimizing and supervising production processes for both the production unit and the packaging lines.
You will support and coach your team with your technical knowledge, create a culture of collaboration and engagement, and contribute to continuous improvement every day.
As a Process Engineering Manager, you will join a dynamic and eager-to-learn Process Engineering team, where you will be jointly responsible for analyzing and optimizing production processes and implementing upgrades.
1. You introduce
You and your team will guide newly developed products from initial testing to commercial production.
You will ensure that the necessary instructions are available for the operators to safely produce a high-quality product at the predetermined levels of efficiency and waste.
You will provide the correct settings for the machines.
2. You optimize
You will analyze data and understand the root causes of the most significant production problems.
You develop proposals to limit productivity and quality losses through machine adjustments or more efficient working methods.
In close consultation with your colleagues in production, quality, maintenance, and engineering, you standardize improvements across shifts.
3. You analyze
Through reporting and targeted analyses, you identify the greatest opportunities.
You use this information to support your colleagues in production and technical services in their daily performance monitoring and analysis of deviations.
This is you:
You can look back on a successful period as a manager of a team of engineers.
You are fluent in French (oral and written).
Experience in the food sector is a major plus.
A strong background in people management: you know how to motivate and guide a team of process engineers.
Process thinking is in your DNA: you see connections, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
A hands-on attitude, with a pragmatic and solution-oriented approach.
Gourmand Pastries is an equal opportunities employer and therefore welcomes applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, or sexual orientation.
