Title:  ASSISTANT FOOD TECH

Do you have a passion for turning technical ideas into real-life innovations that drive operational excellence? Join our Supply Chain team as a Food Technologist. In this role, you’ll be responsible for executing, managing, and leading low to medium complexity technical projects focused on innovation and productivity—such as business support activities (BSA), food improvements, support for line start-ups, and product relocations.

You’ll play a key role in adapting prototype formulas to industrial scale, overseeing scale-up processes, testing, and ensuring a successful startup. Throughout the process, you’ll make sure all new products comply with our Quality, Sanitation, and Safety standards. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll help bring product ideas to life while enhancing efficiency and supporting continuous improvement across our operations.

This position is based in Linares, Nuevo León.

A Taste of What You’ll Be Doing

• Innovation & Formula Scale-Up: Support the ideation process and lead the adaptation of prototype formulas to industrial scale, ensuring successful scale-up aligned with quality, cost, and timeline expectations.
• Start-Up & Knowledge Transfer: Lead production start-ups by documenting technical know-how, training plant personnel, and ensuring smooth handover to operations.
• Process Design & Compliance: Influence decisions on process definition, including SOPs, SOCs, and line throughput, while ensuring compliance with internal standards and regulatory requirements.
• Stakeholder & Supplier Collaboration: Build and maintain technical relationships with vendors and suppliers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and cost-saving projects.
• Culture, Leadership & Continuous Improvement: Promote the company’s values through active participation in KWS, support continuous improvement initiatives, and contribute to building a strong performance-driven culture.

We’re Looking for Someone With

• English proficiency (90%)
• Food Industry/Biotech Engineer preferably
• 1 year of experience as a Food Tech
• Teamwork and communication skills (spoken and written)
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Leadership and collaboration

What’s Next

After you apply, your application will be reviewed by a real recruiter, so it may take us a few weeks to get back with you by email or phone. Visit our How We Hire page to get insights into our hiring process and more about what we offer.

If you join our team, you’ll be rewarded for the difference you make. Our comprehensive benefits offer you the support you need through your life events, big or small. Visit our benefits page & be sure to ask your recruiter for more specific information.

Get to Know Us

At Kellanova, we are driven by our vision to be the world’s best-performing snacks-led powerhouse, unleashing the full potential of our differentiated brands and our passionate people. Our portfolio of iconic, world-class brands include Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, MorningStar Farms, Special K, Krave, Zucaritas, Tresor, Crunchy Nut, among others.

Kellanova’s Culture of Best means we bring our best to all that we do in pursuit of our vision to be the world’s best performing snacks-led powerhouse. Our culture celebrates boldness and empowers our people to challenge the status quo, achieve results, and win together.

Our focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) enables us to build a culture of belonging where all employees have a place at the table and are inspired to share their passion, talents and ideas to work.

Mars has agreed to acquire Kellanova in a combination that will shape the future of snacking! The transaction is anticipated to close within the first half of 2025 (subject to Kellanova shareowner approval and other customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals). The companies remain separate until closing.

You can learn more at www.futureofsnacking.com, and our hiring teams will be happy to discuss further questions if your application advances in the hiring process.

What does it take to be the best? Someone like you.

Kellanova is an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to provide an inclusive work environment, a seat for everyone at the table, and embraces the diverse talent of its people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding our efforts to advance Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, please visit our website here.