Process Control Technician

Job Summary

As Process Control Technician at Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today. We’re Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you’ll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands. Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World. It’s Better with Bakelite.

About the role

The Process Control Technician is responsible for the safety, efficiency, and repeatability of resin manufacturing to generate quality results. You will be responsible for the creation, monitoring, and improvement of the batch processes at the assigned facility. You will be the 1st call for plant batching or recipe issues while processing a batch. You will have stewardship of the batch recipe from Start to Finish and is constantly looking to improve the efficiency, repeatability, and automation of our batches to reduce operator intervention and errors.

Responsibilities

• Strong process knowledge of the batch reactions, the equipment, and the safety aspects of the system.
• Become proficient in the ability to program the associated batching software Experion Batch, PLC etc.
• Able to audit other sites recipes for logical and safety sequencing and look for possible issues as a validation process.
• Strong Data mining, historical trending capabilities to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong interpersonal skills to develop working relationships with both operations and Maintenance.
• Strong Computer skills with the ability to utilize software tools like MES, Excel, SAP, etc.
• Flexibility to monitor batch sequencing in real time which may require weekend or backshift monitoring.
• Strong Team Leader/Member – The Process Control Technician will be a key member of the site technical teams as well as facility siting for new products etc.
• The ideal Process Control Technician has hand on expertise in the manufacturing of various resin types or strong technical background in the science of resin manufacturing. Hands on experience of resin manufacturing is highly preferred.
• New product development: The Process Control Technician will work with R&D as the product formulation is developed and ensure that the proposed formulation, temperatures, cooks and controls are reasonable and aligned with the facilities capability.
• Utilize skills and process knowledge to establish recipes with minimal manual interactions, the goal is fully automated recipe execution.
• Evaluate new product feasibility at a facility helping make value driven business decisions.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• 5-10 Years of Experience of chemical manufacturing.
• The ability to positively influence personnel.
• A clear understanding of the intricacies of operating a chemical reactor.
• Computer literate with ability to understand the programming process within Honeywell Experion and/or other systems.
• The ability and willingness to communicate the why’s behind the changes to the resin making process that are coming and hold firm to the strategy if/ when there are challenges countercurrent to our end goal.
• Dedicated to what we’re trying to accomplish to the point where extended hours at critical times will not be a problem.
• Must have kettle experience.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• 5-10 Years of Experience of chemical manufacturing.
• The ability to positively influence personnel.
• A clear understanding of the intricacies of operating a chemical reactor.
• Computer literate with ability to understand the programming process within Honeywell Experion and/or other systems.
• The ability and willingness to communicate the why’s behind the changes to the resin making process that are coming and hold firm to the strategy if/ when there are challenges countercurrent to our end goal.
• Dedicated to what we’re trying to accomplish to the point where extended hours at critical times will not be a problem.
• Must have kettle experience.

Skills

• Strong process knowledge of the batch reactions, the equipment, and the safety aspects of the system.
• Proficiency in programming the associated batching software Experion Batch, PLC etc.
• Ability to audit other sites recipes for logical and safety sequencing and look for possible issues as a validation process.
• Strong data mining and historical trending capabilities to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong interpersonal skills to develop working relationships with both operations and Maintenance.
• Strong computer skills with the ability to utilize software tools like MES, Excel, SAP, etc.
• Flexibility to monitor batch sequencing in real time which may require weekend or backshift monitoring.
• Strong team leader/member.
• Hand on expertise in the manufacturing of various resin types or strong technical background in the science of resin manufacturing.
• Experience with new product development.
• Skills and process knowledge to establish recipes with minimal manual interactions, the goal is fully automated recipe execution.
• Ability to evaluate new product feasibility at a facility helping make value driven business decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Robust benefits.
• Support for career development.

Pay

TBD.

Schedule

TBD.