Philip Morris Usa Work Values

Daily Duties at Philip Morris Usa:

Executed both product and process development projects for tobacco-based technologies. Product Development (2007-2009) • Interfaced with both sensory and analytical functions to establish potential consumer targets and develop product and process characteristics for new smokeless tobacco products. • Led texture team toward new understanding of compressible, non-free flowing material and develop new product offerings and modify process / product parameters. Team developed four new test methods for new product and recommended and effected process change resulting in more favorable reception of test market product. • Identified critical issue for scale-up in process equipment of coated tobacco product enabling ~100-fold increase in production rate. Process Commercialization & Engineering (2005-2007) • Engaged in process development, technology evaluation, and development • Successfully modified sensory characteristics of tobacco using Browning (Maillard) reactions and enzymatic treatments. • Evaluated drying technology for smokeless tobacco and recommended large-scale drying platform based on functional performance, analytical findings, and sensory testing (from lab to pilot to commercial scale). • Established stress-strain relationship for moist smokeless tobacco for understanding, product characterization, and process knowledge. • Championed implications of transport phenomena (heat and mass transfer) on MST fermentation process (scale-up importance). Process proven to be diffusion-limited and established the need for process modeling. • Identified potential OSHA issue with nicotine, confirmed its magnitude, and offered a solution that resulted in a change of work practice and problem avoidance

What they like about Philip Morris Usa:

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Tags

Polymers, Coatings, Rheology, Surfactants, scale-up, stage-gate product development, thin-films, problem solving, structure-property relationships, adhesives, viscoelasticity, elastomers

Skills

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