Modified Night Shift - PROCESS TECHNICIAN

Responsibilities

• Promote and uphold the highest standards of safety for oneself and others during daily activities.
• Oversee all trials and sampling activities, ensuring the availability of essential resources and the successful completion of each trial.
• Demonstrate the ability to make necessary process adjustments to control defects and meet the quality objectives outlined in customer specifications.
• Review Quality Window trends when adjusting to ensure effective solutions.
• Educate and train Line Leads, Operators, and other relevant employees to troubleshoot productivity and quality issues effectively.
• Manage product recipes across all processes with a focus on optimization.
• Process ResourceAssist production teams in their daily operations by proactively identifying and addressing problem areas.
• Engage in daily process troubleshooting to uncover root cause solutions.
• Process and Product Improvement involves a thorough analysis of goals, output rates, utilization, and downtime to identify deviations and potential areas for enhancement across all operations.
• Analyze process/product goals, output rates, utilization, downtime, and determine the deviations to define potential areas of improvement in all operations.
• Recommend comprehensive process and product improvements, which may include equipment modifications and upgrades, and actively pursue the implementation of these changes.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies to make informed recommendations.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and process engineering teams to implement authorized process modifications effectively.
• Act as a round-the-clock technical resource to support Shift Supervisors in resolving quality and operational issues on the production lines.
• Process and Product Development involves close collaboration with relevant research and development personnel, as well as manufacturing and process engineering teams throughout trial work.
• Effectively communicate developmental progress to the appropriate plant personnel.
• Document Standard Operating Conditions for all plant trials.
• Review and update all Standard Operating Conditions (SOCs) annually in coordination with manufacturing and process engineering teams.
• Develop Standard Operating Conditions for new processes in conjunction with these teams.
• Update Standard Operating Conditions whenever a process undergoes modification.
• Provide input to the Quality Assurance team during the development of specifications.
• Collaborate directly with the scheduling team for all new customer trials.
• Update fabric widths as necessary.
• Aid in training operators on the proper operation of new or upgraded equipment as needed.
• Provide Statistical Process Control (SPC) and laboratory training for operators as required.
• Coordinate all aspects of new customer trials, including laboratory support, procurement of necessary raw materials, execution of the trial, and ensuring that the customer receives the final product.
• Travel to customer sites for process support on new products or benchmarking as needed.

Qualifications

• Education: A High School Diploma or equivalent is required, while an undergraduate degree in a related field is preferred.
• Experience: A minimum of three years of manufacturing experience is required. Candidates should possess excellent problem-solving, communication, and writing skills. Strong proficiency in mathematics and grammar is also essential.
• Reasoning Ability: Demonstrates the capability to address practical challenges and manage diverse concrete variables in scenarios with minimal standardization. Possesses the skill to interpret various forms of instructions, whether they are presented in written, oral, diagrammatic, or scheduled formats.
• Physical Demands: Requires prolonged sitting and frequent bending, stooping and stretching, manual dexterity. Occasional lifting and carrying of up to 50 pounds, frequent lifting up to 25 pounds. Required to frequently ascend and descend up to three flights of stairs over extremely fast-moving machinery. Required to safely access fast moving machinery, which includes rolls with inward nip points. Ability to work outside normal scheduled working hours when needed in a 24/7/365 operation.