Process engineer

Pay in the destination countries

Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.

What does the day look like?

You spend 15% to 25% of your time scaling benchtop 500 g formulations up to 50 kg pilot batches and 5,000 kg factory runs, calculating mass balances and heating curves. The largest share (30% to 45%) is on the plant floor: checking batch homogeneity, homogeniser pressures, extruder speeds, and troubleshooting defects like separation or scorching. Another 20% to 30% goes to drafting SOPs, batch records, HACCP sheets, and GMP documentation, while 10% to 15% is spent testing alternative ingredients.

Daily tools include texture analysers, refractometers, viscometers, HPLC, alongside SCADA, PLC interfaces (Siemens SIMATIC, Allen-Bradley), Genesis R&D, and SAP ERP. Creative tasting is only about 15% of the role; 85% is wearing safety boots and hairnets on noisy production lines, calibrating probes, and auditing compliance. Work runs 40 hours per week, but plant commissioning frequently requires 3-shift rotations and on-call night duty.

Where does this lead?