Process Engineer

Responsibilities

• Helps direct the efforts of process technicians through good managerial skills and establishes goals in order to produce positive results.
• Manages Process Reliability: Works closely with customers to define product requirements and translates them into controllable process parameters. Determines company’s process capabilities to consistently run to target and meet the customer’s product requirements. Defines and reports opportunities for process reliability improvement.
• Works closely with the Process Engineering Manager, Operations Manager, Maintenance Manager, and manufacturing teams to recommend and justify needed equipment upgrades or modifications.
• Ability to identify and lead process improvement projects
• Ability to lead meetings, Kaizen events, and other actions as they relate to the Engineering Department
• Reviews, provides input, and / or approves process procedures
• Specification review procedures: Coordinates production order instructions with Production Scheduler for new or existing products as a result of a new specification or change to existing specification. Monitors Schedule for reliability. Works with Operations Manager to train production team members in the following areas:
• Pareto analysis of downtime causes with the objective of improving equipment utilization.
• Process capability studies to optimize specific product processes by product and by line.
• Control chart maintenance and analysis to reduce key property variation through assignable cause identification and corrective action.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering field. 3 years of prior relevant engineering experience in a manufacturing setting preferred.
• Previous supervision and project management experience preferred.
• Understanding of chemical properties within the plastic industry preferred.
• Six Sigma Green or Black Belt preferred.