Process Engineer

Revolution Foods, Inc.

Commerce, CA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$115,000–$130,000 Per Year
JOB TYPE
Part-time
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Automation, Best Practices, Communication Skills, Consumer Packaged Goods, Continuous Improvement, Cook Dishes, Cost Control, Cross-Functional, Culinary Operations, Documentation, FDA (Food and Drug Administration), Food Production, Food Safety, Food Science, GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), Industrial Engineering, Leadership, Lean Six Sigma, Line Balancing, Multilingual, Operations Processes, Process Capability, Process Engineering, Process Improvement, Process Validation, Product Support, Product/Service Launch, Quality Assurance, Regulations, Research & Development (R&D), Scalable System Development, Spanish Language, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Sustainability, Theater Production, Trend Analysis, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
LOCATION
Commerce, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

We are seeking a highly driven and hands-on Process Engineer to design, optimize, and scale food production processes across our operations. This role will play a critical part in improving efficiency, reducing waste, and ensuring consistent, high-quality output as we continue to grow and evolve our production footprint.

This is not a purely theoretical role, you will be on the floor, partnering cross-functionally to solve real production challenges, implement scalable solutions, and support new product innovation.

What You’ll Do
    • Design, improve, and scale food production processes across mixing, cooking, cooling, and packaging operations to drive throughput, consistency, and quality at scale.
    • Lead the development of unified processes, SOPs, and best practices across multiple sites to ensure consistency, repeatability, and operational alignment; eliminate variation and build scalable systems that support growth.
    • Drive a culture of operational excellence by leading structured continuous improvement initiatives (Lean, Six Sigma), focusing on waste reduction, labor efficiency, throughput optimization, and cost control.
    • Analyze production, yield, and downtime data to identify trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities, and translate insights into actionable improvements that deliver measurable impact.
    • Identify and resolve true root causes of production challenges, implementing sustainable, long-term fixes and building processes that prevent recurrence.
    • Act as a change agent across operations, driving adoption of new processes, influencing stakeholders at all levels, and ensuring alignment between engineering, production, QA, and leadership teams.
    • Identify opportunities to better leverage automation, equipment, and technology to improve efficiency, consistency, and labor optimization; partner with engineering and maintenance to implement more effective production solutions.
    • Take ownership from concept through execution, driving implementation on the floor, validating results, and ensuring adoption and sustainability of improvements.
    • Partner cross-functionally with QA, R&D, Maintenance, Culinary, and Operations to align on product quality, process capability, and execution standards.
    • Support new product introductions from pilot through full-scale production, ensuring processes are robust, repeatable, and operationally efficient.
    • Lead process validation efforts and develop clear, actionable documentation (SOPs, work instructions, control plans) to ensure consistent execution across teams and sites.
    • Ensure all processes are designed and executed in compliance with HACCP, USDA/FDA, and GMP standards, embedding food safety into every stage of production.

    What You Bring

    • Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field 
    • 5–10+ years of experience in food or CPG manufacturing environments
    • Bilingual Spanish (written and verbal) is highly preferred to effectively communicate and collaborate with frontline production teams
    • Strong knowledge of food safety regulations and quality systems (HACCP, GMP, USDA/FDA)
    • Proven experience with process optimization, line balancing, and production scaling
    • Hands-on experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement frameworks
    • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable improvements
    • Demonstrated ability to lead projects and influence cross-functional teams
    • Comfortable working both on the production floor and at a strategic level
    • Experience in high-volume or commissary-style food production
    • Exposure to automation, production technology, or equipment integration
    • Background supporting scratch cooking or complex food processes
    • Ability to build scalable systems across multi-site operations

    Salary Range: $115,000 - $130,000

    About the Company

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    Revolution Foods, Inc.

    Revolution Foods is committed to transforming the way America eats by providing access to great tasting, healthy meals for families across America. Since its founding in 2006, it has served over 150 million healthy, kid-designed affordable meals to schools across the country. Expanding upon its success in schools, Revolution Foods expanded their impact by launching high-quality options, available at retail.

    Today, its 1,000+ locally-hired employees share in the Revolution Foods mission by creating and delivering over one million freshly prepared meals to students in schools, every week.

    Based in Oakland, CA it was twice named the second fastest growing company in America’s inner cities by the Inner City 100 List and ranked by Fast Company as #6 (for food) on the world’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.

    Specialties

    healthy school meals, healthy consumer products, and healthy vending

    COMPANY SIZE
    1,500 to 1,999 employees
    INDUSTRY
    Manufacturing - Other
    EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
    Employee Events, Life Insurance
    FOUNDED
    2006
    WEBSITE
    http://www.revolutionfoods.com