Engineer - Taste Design Verification

Be a part of a revolutionary change!

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible! We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to deliver a smoke-free future. We’re also exploring new categories, looking beyond nicotine to develop a new portfolio of innovative products.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

It’s so rare in R&D that everything aligns to create the ideal conditions for outstanding work. Right now, at PMI, that’s exactly what’s happening. R&D is the driving force for our bold new vision: to replace cigarettes with a revolutionary portfolio of alternative products.

Join us and you’ll have the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the brightest scientists in their fields, with fast access to subject experts and commercial decision-makers.

If you’re creative, courageous and ready to take risks, you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions. Ultimately, by delivering our smoke-free and beyond nicotine future, your work could change the lives of millions.

Your 'day to day'

As an Engineer - Taste Design Verification you will implement and lead validation activities linked to portfolio extensions in order to meet technical and business needs.

More specifically, you will:

1. Translate product designer DoE into testing protocols. Ensure full traceability from material to product performance results using dedicated systems.
2. Plan and communicate with manufacturing center trial plans, discuss and integrate trial requirements. Connect with analytical laboratories and sensory evaluation plans, discuss and integrate analysis and sensorial requirements.
3. Track projects progress as per the identified plan activities to ensure adherence to schedule and budget requirements and provide timely updates to project owner. Perform knowledge management via data compilation, review and storage in line with Company, FDA or any other equivalent accreditation authority requirements.
4. Produce and maintain accurate and complete documentation that describes a new product, process and/or system, facilitating decision making, including all relevant information for legal or compliance purposes, to ensure a complete record to close the project/activity.
5. Identify process optimization and bridging opportunities across platforms/eco-systems. Provide support for cleaning assessment, validation and procedures.
6. Transfer the accomplished product, process and system quality improvements, including knowledge and expertise within the organization to ensure sustainable implementation.

Who we’re looking for:

1. Engineering or Science Degree or Equivalent in fields of: food science, chemistry, biology, biochemistry, biotechnology or similar field.
2. Meaningful relevant experience, preferably in tobacco industry or in a multinational environment.
3. Experience in equipment / process validation.
4. Standard pack office IT skills, use of data management system is a plus.
5. Knowledge of tobacco leaf, primary and secondary processing, flavor manufacturing is a plus.
6. A person that is curious, exploring, agile, and not late to take the lead, proposing new insights and solutions.
7. A person that can work independently with low supervision, not afraid to take their own decisions and responsibility.
8. Highly developed communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
9. Ability to solve problems, think outside of the box when needed but also capable of understanding the context and sometimes see the big picture.
10. Proficiency in English both in writing and speaking, while Italian and French is an asset.

What we offer:

Our success depends on the people of all genders who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:

1. Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
2. Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
3. Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
4. Take pride in delivering our promise to society: a smoke-free future.

PMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer

About the company

Philip Morris International (PMI) is a leading international tobacco company engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, smoke-free products and associated electronic devices and accessories, and other nicotine-containing products in markets outside the U.S.