Product Development Process Engineer
Elevation Labs · Idaho Falls, ID
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An engineer-level process role at Elevation Labs (industrial) in Idaho Falls, ID. Develop/manage/execute post-batch analyses to identify necessary updates to manufacturing instructions.
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Process Engineer roles in Idaho: typical posted base $89k–$134k.
Median of the low and high ends of 5 live postings that list pay, out of 18 process engineer openings in Idaho, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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This plant: Elevation Labs in Idaho Falls
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Responsibilities
- ◆Owns technical oversight of the ELID R&D pilot program as part of product commercialization.
- ◆Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners as part of the New Product Development Stage Gate process.
- ◆Provide manufacturing feasibility assessments during new project brief reviews.
- ◆Interface directly with Customers, as needed, to ensure client
requirements
are met during piloting/scale-up.
- ✓Author, review, and/or approve new manufacturing instructions to ensure BRFT.
- ✓Develop/manage/execute post-batch analyses to identify necessary updates to manufacturing instructions.
- ✓Assist in root Cause analysis for failed batches originating in Compounding.
- ✓Retroactively review problematic formulations and propose processing changes to enable BRFT.
- ✓Support Compounding by ensuring staff have a basic understanding of formulation principles/methodologies, as well as the challenges and how to address them during batching.
- ✓Maintain an external focus on manufacturing trends with the intention of identifying capacity or capability expansions for ELID.
- ✓Lead CI initiatives as appropriate to the role.
Knowledge & Skills Ideal Candidate
Qualifications
- ✓Possesses technical expertise as required by the listed responsibilities, education, and experience.
- ✓Performs work with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- ✓Performs work using good organizational and time management skills.
- ✓Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office Products.
- ✓Works with minimum supervision.
- ✓Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks in a short amount of time.
- ✓Ability to coach and mentor others.
- ✓Perform essential duties and
responsibilities
efficiently, accurately, and safely.
Education/Experience
- ✓BS in Chemical Engineering, or related sciences, required. Advanced degree preferred.
- ✓Minimum five years of experience in the CPG industry, with a demonstrated track record of successful scale-up for New Product Development.
- ✓Organic/clean-beauty experience preferred.
responsibilities
and may be amended as needed.
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Job Summary The Product Development Process Engineer role resides within the Research and Development function at Elevation Labs Colorado, reporting to the VP of R&D. This individual will collaborate closely with R&D and Compounding, ensuring appropriate translation of lab batching to the compounding floor, and will provide ownership for all New Product Development pilot and scale-up initiatives to ensure Batch Right First Time.
Physical and Mental Demands
- •Ability to work in a manufacturing environment around heavy machinery.
- •Ability to stand or walk for extended periods of time.
- •Ability to work flexible hours and weekends as business needs require.
- •Regularly required to stand
- •Frequently required to walk
- •Regularly reach with hands and arms
- •Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- •Must have a positive attitude.
- •Able to work with a variety of people inside and outside of the organization.
- •Communicate well with others.
The physical demands identified above are representative of those that will be required to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- •Regularly required to work in areas where chemical materials are encountered
- •Manufacturing setting with moving machinery
- •Regularly required to wear appropriate personal protective equipment
- •May involve exposure to the shop environment, including variable noise levels
- •Must customarily have a high consciousness of personnel and equipment safety
Seniority level
- •Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- •Full-time
Industries
- •Personal Care Product Manufacturing
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