Extrusion Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement extrusion processes and inline controls.
• Drive process optimization.
• Work with production personnel and R&D to ensure high precision extrusion requirements meeting customer specifications and tolerances.
• Diagnose and resolve issues related to the extrusion process to minimize downtime and defects.
• Trouble shoot processing parameters when needed using problem solving methodologies.
• Support, coach and align with all Health and safety company policies.
• Collaborate with external vendors to develop tooling and fixtures that result in producing high precision quality products.
• Maintain comprehensive records and documentation of all extrusion processes, improvements, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Generate documentation on extrusion runs that is used to control traceability and ensure reproducibility.
• Work with Production, Engineering, Quality, and Manufacturing Departments during concept, prototyping, and release of new products.
• Follow established procedures in order to maintain a clean and organized environment.
• Support productivity improvement, reducing unnecessary scrap and offal, down time/set-up time.
• Work as part of a team to ensure products and processes comply with the relevant requirements of the Business Management System (QMS and EMS).
• Support scrap-reduction, cost savings and quality improvement teams, with focus on process and material optimization.
• PFMEA, PCP, and experimental design optimization.
• Provide technical support and training to production staff to ensure adherence to best practices and quality standards.
• Help direct the maintenance of equipment to optimum running conditions.
• Other assignments as required.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years' experience of hands-on precision extrusion. Including TPE and TPU extrusion experience.
• You know how to set up equipment and run the product.
• Post-secondary education in a engineering/technical field or relevant technical experiences.
• PREFERRED: Mechanical, Chemical, or Materials Engineering.
• Experience and understanding of extrusion equipment design.
• Understanding of the relationships of the process instrumentation to the observed effects on the process.
• Work as part of a cross functional team and independently with excellent personal time management skills, creating a collaborative project environment is essential.
• Able to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Flexible during times of change.
• Good verbal and written communication skills required.
• Good computer skills including understanding databases, spreadsheets and word processing.
• Dexterity and visual acuity for product inspection and computer work.
• Strong written and oral communication.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Basic statistical knowledge.