Process Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop programs and methods to optimize productivity, increase efficiencies and reduce cycle time, manufacturing losses, and overall costs.
• Monitor and measure manufacturing losses and develop new techniques to reduce losses and improve quality.
• Recommend and implement changes to product or process which would improve cost, delivery, and quality for the customer.
• Use data analysis and metrics to design and implement solutions.
• Cookordination efforts with Product Development Engineers to improve processing of difficult to run formulations.
• Assure product adheres to the company standards and leads problem solving teams to implement corrective actions where needed.
• Expand abilities of the equipment & processes.
• Maintain a working knowledge of technical developments within the industry and assists with the design of manufacturing systems.
• Lead continuous improvement projects to improve effectiveness and efficiencies of processes by increasing throughput, reducing internal reject and reducing scarp rates.
• Support daily manufacturing operations as needed.
• Support maintenance activities and equipment modifications.
• Apply problem solving methodology to find root causes and equipment failure and implement changes to eliminate repetitive failures.
• Travel to other Uniform Color and Audia facilities as required to support operational needs.
• Follow UC Quality System-approved work instructions and procedures and help improve these as needed.
• Responsible for successful facilitation of all company safety policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• 0-5 years of engineering experience in a batch processing environment
• Plastics processing knowledge
• Material transfer and blending
• Project management
• Statistical problem solving
• Can present and gain support for ideas and changes

Preferred Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.