Teams at Plantible Foods

Lead process optimization, yield and throughput improvements, continuous improvement, and technology transfer from R&D to commercial production. Develop PFDs, P&IDs, SOPs, process models, and mass and energy balances; support scale-up trials, commissioning, validation, troubleshooting, and equipment development. Collaborate with operations, maintenance, controls, research, and engineering teams while managing project schedules, budgets, changes, documentation, training, and communications at the Ranchito facility.

Owns major capital projects from front-end loading and engineering through procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and operational handoff. The role manages scope, schedule, budget, risk, contractors, vendors, engineering partners, and multidisciplinary interfaces across greenhouse infrastructure and food-processing facilities. It also establishes project governance, commissioning standards, construction safety practices, and repeatable capital-project processes while building and leading the company’s capital projects organization.

Hands-on engineer supporting pilot plant and production operations, including equipment operation, troubleshooting, inventory and shipment readiness, process optimization, SOP development, deviation management, and scale-up from R&D to commercial manufacturing. The role collaborates with operations, commercialization, maintenance, and controls teams to implement validated improvements and build scalable, data-driven plant systems.