Sr. Process Engineer

Gastonia, NC | Full-Time | On-Site

About Lubrizol

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees.

Responsibilities

• Reduce variability, standardize, and improve production systems with a focus on Safety, Environmental, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
• Batch tracking to identify repeat failures and implement corrective and preventative actions.
• Monitor product performance and process capability on a periodic basis.
• Recommend procedural changes, equipment modifications, or product recipe adjustments as needed.
• Maintain product manufacturing and cleaning instructions; provide training for process operators.
• Provide process troubleshooting and technical directions – may involve interaction outside normal business hours.
• Support development and manufacturing for capital projects.
• Serve as the liaison between manufacturing and R&D during the development/scale-up of new products/processes; coordinate manufacturing efforts during development.
• Use and maintain systems associated with ISO 9001, RC-14001, Halal, RSPO, Process Safety Management, etc.
• Ensure safe operations by observing all Health, Safety and Environmental (HS&E) procedures; update and standardize process instructions in area.
• Adhere to systems that involve improving and maintaining the area such as MOC’s, PHA’s, PSSR’s, JSA’s, and incident reporting.
• Understand the general concepts of ISO 9001, RC-14001, Halal, RSPO, Process Safety Management, etc.
• Interact daily with site personnel to successfully execute the operating plan.
• Enter production records into SAP and review any associated cost variances.
• Be the technical representative for customer and certification audits.
• Focus on Continuous Improvement with emphasis on Learning Organization, Process Centered, Embracing the Total System, Respect for People, and Long-term Vision.
• Work with the maintenance department to improve equipment reliability.
• Work with chemical operators to learn the processes, understand how they are performed, and generate ideas for improvement.
• Work with project engineers to identify, provide justification, and start-up support for capital projects.
• Monitor product quality and lead efforts to continuously drive improvements in process capability.

Requirements

• BS in Chemical Engineering.
• 4+ years of Process Engineering experience.
• Experience with cross-functional teams in new product development, technology transfer, process improvement, and general operations.
• Experience with statistical process control and statistical techniques.

Skills

• DeltaV (preferred).
• OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) (preferred).
• ISO 9001 and cosmetic ingredient GMP (preferred).
• SAP S4HANA (preferred).