Agricultural Process Engineer

vor 3 Wochen


Einbeck, Niedersachsen, Deutschland KWS SAAT SE Vollzeit
Protein Production Manager (m/f/d)

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Protein Production Manager to join our KWS Food Ingredients team. As a key member of our team, you will play a pioneering role in fueling our ambitions in plant-based food ingredients.

Your Key Responsibilities:

  • Identify and evaluate potential service providers/partners for protein extraction from pilot and large-scale grain volumes, particularly peas, for different protein types and applications.
  • Organize and manage protein extraction from protein crops, especially peas, through service providers/partners to support product development projects and commercial activities, including establishing and testing scale-up consistency.
  • Support the development of industry-mimicking lab-scale protein extraction processes.
  • Be responsible for off-season production of protein crops on fields and in protected growing facilities, including production planning, selecting and managing contract growers, and coordinating sampling, harvest, and logistics.
  • Align crop production activities with our internal plant breeding and seed production teams and provide input to protein extraction capacity and volume planning.
  • Ensure and establish professional inventory management from seed to protein.
  • Continuously strive to improve cost efficiency and protein quality parameters.

Your Profile:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in food engineering, food processing technology, process engineering, or adjacent sciences.
  • Professional experience in and/or network to protein crop processing and protein extraction industry.
  • Experience in agricultural crop production on field and in controlled environments preferred, especially with peas.
  • Hands-on attitude, proactively tackling challenges and finding solutions.
  • Innovative and out-of-the-box mindset.
  • Excellent networking skills and ability to work in interdisciplinary teams.
  • Business fluent German and English language skills.
  • Driving license mandatory (Class B).
  • High willingness to travel.

What We Offer:

  • A family-run company guided by values of closeness, reliability, foresight, and independence, creating an open and friendly working atmosphere.
  • Support for employees' professional and personal development, true to our motto 'Make yourself grow'.
  • Excellent work equipment, fully-fledged subsidized canteen, and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location.
  • Capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, childcare allowance, and a job bike.


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