Senior Coffee Process Expert

Wuxi, China

Permanent

80-100%

Onsite

28.09.2026

This is where you'll excel

• Act as a central expert for industrial coffee processing and provide end-to-end technology expertise from farm to cup.
• Develop, validate, document, and transfer industrial coffee-processing know-how across Bühler's organization and customer projects.
• Develop, review, and maintain high-quality flowsheets, process concepts, and plant solutions in line with customer requirements, Bühler standards, and strategic Coffee portfolio priorities.
• Support technical sales, regional sales and service organizations, quotation, engineering, product management, R&D, commissioning, and project teams with in-depth process expertise.
• Analyze complex process challenges in industrial coffee-production plants and develop practical, technically sound, and commercially realistic solutions.
• Advise customers and internal teams on complex technology topics, connecting process recommendations with product quality, capacity, efficiency, food safety, plant performance, and operational requirements.
• Provide sound process input, process-risk assessments, and clear information transfer to quotation, engineering, technology, design, and project teams.
• Support complex commissioning, start-ups, plant optimization, trials, and customer demonstrations, including structured reporting and documentation of relevant findings.
• Build, document, and continuously improve Bühler's coffee-process knowledge base, including trial results, commissioning learnings, start-up experience, and process standards.
• Contribute process expertise to product portfolio development, R&D activities, technology standards, and Coffee technology-roadmap discussions.
• Drive the development of coffee-process technology standards and scalable OneCoffee solution concepts across green coffee handling, cleaning, roasting, grinding, degassing, plant engineering, and adjacent processes.
• Train and coach colleagues and selected customer groups on coffee-processing topics, including technical sales, service, quotation, and engineering teams.
• Deliver internal courses, customer training, guest lectures, and technical sessions to strengthen Bühler's coffee competence and position the company as a trusted expert in industrial coffee processing.
• Monitor coffee-process and technology trends, including customer needs, operational challenges, process innovations, and relevant academic or research developments.
• Translate relevant technology insights into practical recommendations for Bühler and its customers.
• Collaborate with internal and external technology partners, universities, and Research and Technology Centers to further strengthen Bühler's coffee-processing capabilities.

These are the skills you'll need

• University degree in Food Process Engineering, Food Technology, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field; extensive relevant industrial experience in coffee processing may be considered as an alternative.
• Strong professional experience in the coffee industry, ideally in industrial coffee-production process design, plant engineering, plant management, production, quality assurance, commissioning, process technology, or technology development.
• Expert-level understanding of industrial coffee processing, ideally covering green coffee handling, cleaning, roasting, grinding, degassing, plant concepts, process integration, and product-quality implications.
• Deep product and process understanding, or the ability to build it quickly through close collaboration with internal experts.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and review flowsheets, process concepts, and plant solutions according to customer requirements and quality standards.
• Ability to connect process expertise with customer needs, product requirements, plant performance, food safety, operational efficiency, and commercially realistic solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities in industrial food-production environments.
• Experience supporting commissioning, start-ups, plant optimization, trials, customer demonstrations, and technology-validation activities.
• Structured, proactive, and documentation-oriented working style, with the discipline to capture and transfer learnings from trials, commissioning, start-ups, and customer projects.
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate across Sales, Service, Technology, Engineering, R&D, Product Management, Commissioning, and Project Execution.
• Ability to work effectively in an international matrix organization.
• Strong training, coaching, and knowledge-transfer capabilities.
• Fluent English for global collaboration with colleagues and customers; additional languages are an advantage.
• Coffee Master capability or equivalent practical coffee expertise is strongly preferred. SCA accreditation or comparable coffee-specific training is an advantage.
• Academic, research, or university-collaboration experience is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel internationally approximately 30% for customer visits, trials, commissioning support, training, and strategic technology activities.

These are the benefits you'll enjoy!

Attractive insurance coverage

Attractive insurance coverage

With us you benefit from an attractive insurance coverage - for a secure life!

Free lunch

Free lunch

Enjoy a free lunch every day and recharge your batteries for your working day!

Shuttle bus service

Shuttle bus service

Take advantage of our free shuttle bus service for a stress-free commute!

Supplementary housing fund

Supplementary housing fund

Benefit from an additional housing allowance to support your accommodation costs.

Team and social events

Team and social events

Your engagement makes it possible for us. We want to celebrate this together with you. Our holidays parties, summer parties, sporting events and team events offer the best opportunities to do so.

Career and personal development

Career and personal development

We deliver a broad spectrum of learning opportunities through videos, e-learnings, classroom trainings, and webinars that offer training in formats that are short, relevant, engaging, personalized, and mobile.

Questions? We are happy to answer them!

Silver Shi

Recruiting Partner

Creating impact together at Bühler!

Two billion people eat food every day that was produced with Bühler equipment. One billion people drive vehicles whose parts were manufactured with our machines.

Bühler aims to balance humanity, nature, and the economy in every decision as it develops solutions that unlock sustainable business opportunities in the global food, feed, and mobility industries.

We strive to create innovations for a better world, with a special focus on healthy, safe, and sustainable solutions. Therefore, we team up with customers, start-ups, multinationals, and academia to accelerate impact together.