Industrial Engineer (Quality Engineer)

Who are we?

Since its founding in 2004, KIND has been on a mission to make the world a little kinder one snack and one act at a time. KIND was born out of its founder’s desire to create a snack that was healthy and tasty, wholesome and convenient. What began as a line of premium Fruit & Nut bars sparked the creation of an entirely new healthier snacking category. Today, KIND has a family of snacks that offer solutions for a variety of different occasions.

From the healthy snacks, we make to the way we work, live and give back, we are committed to making the world a little kinder, because we believe that there’s more to business than just profit.

We're looking for passionate, conscious collaborators to help us meet our goals: to inspire kindness, with one tasty snack (and good act) at a time. If you’re looking to be a part of an inspiring, energetic and entrepreneurial environment, you found the right place.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a talented Quality Engineer who is passionate about quality and enjoys working with manufacturing sites to develop and implement process to achieve highest Quality products. In this role, you’ll combine concepts from Quality and Food Safety Systems, Product Quality, Manufacturing Process and Monitoring & Measurement processes, methods and tools. You’ll work closely with your teammates, contributing to the strengthening of KIND Quality & Food Safety System as well KIND products.

As the Quality Engineer, you will …

Partner cross-functionally to help develop a Best-In-Class manufacturing network in Quality Process Excellence:

• Drive programs and processes aimed at improving the quality of our products such as Statistical Process Control, Process Validation and Defects Monitoring and Defects Eradication
• Establish requirements for records management, document control and control of electronic data from inspection processes that will set quality metrics for each stage of the production process 
• Lead the development/validation of KIND Analytical Methods
• Lead product measuring equipment Calibration program (pH, Aw, Brix, temperature, moisture, weight, dimension)
• Lead in partnership with the Process Engineers the Manufacturing Process Validation program at co-manufacturers (roasting, drying, X-Rays, MDs, etc.)
• Work closely with the manufacturing plants to ensure that products meet product and process specifications.
• Verify the consistent implementation and performance of the manufacturing and measurement processes through Process Audits to ensure Product Conformance to Design on Quality & Food Safety
• Drive implementation of Critical-To-Quality (CTQ) and Critical-To-Process (CTP) parameters across the manufacturing network
• Link the “what’s desired by the consumer to what’s possible via manufacturing”
• Travel up to 50% domestically

What you’ll bring to KIND

Passion for Quality

• An entrepreneurial spirit
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across multi-functional teams, often remotely, especially with Operations, manufacturing sites and R&D
• Excellent communication and negations skills
• Genuine in your desire to help make the world a kinder place, committing to always spreading and celebrating kindness