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# Associate Engineer Technical Services

- **Company:** Mars
- **Location:** Burr Ridge, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $74,511.0 - $102,453.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Tools for Reporting
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d2a1605ee441cb96

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline or scientific field, * High School Diploma/GED with 5 years of technical experience or manufacturing related role, * Six Sigma Green Belt or proven experience leading with problem solving tools
 * Experience with implementing Statistical Process Control Concepts Software
 * Experience in commercialization, scale-up, manufacturing capability, and data analysis

## Description

The position is responsible for managing packaging escalations, driving continuous improvement initiatives, enabling successful communication cross-functionally, and statistical process control implementation. As part of managing packaging escalations, this role will be required to liaison with both internal partners and external suppliers to resolve out of specifications materials.

This is an on-site, plant-based role which on occasion requires flexibility of working hours to support the needs of the site and business which can minimally include evenings, overnight, or weekend support., * First point of contact for packaging escalations by leading investigation and troubleshooting.

 * Communicate with External Suppliers when materials are outside specifications and follow-through to ensure resolution.
 * Own statistical process control system implementation.
 * Leverage specifications and standard run conditions to maintain and develop ongoing process verification for key product parameters.
 * Ensure monitoring and reporting tools are available to ensure product meets compliance.
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Advanced Problem Solving Operational Excellence

 * Through the application of complex problem-solving techniques, drive continuous quality improvements, efficiency gains, and waste reduction supporting the overall site and business goals.
 * Perform trend analysis to identify opportunities for optimization.
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Commercialization, Scale-Up, Risk Management

 * Act as a liaison between RD, Engineering, and Supply to ensure planning and risk management for initiatives on both existing and new products and processes.
 * Lead and Support execution of line trial plans to deliver critical success factors and validate hypothesis on process capability.
 * Create and execute data collection sampling plan for validation of design to specification, capturing process parameters to ensure repeated performance.
 * Ensure successful start-up of new launches through proper documentation to ensure compliance with Quality Food Safety, Legal, and Human Safety requirements.