Process Engineer

Process Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in an Engineering field
• 6-9 years experience in an engineering or process role in a flexible packaging converting operation
• Training and experience in Lean manufacturing methodologies
• Familiarity with trade journals, trade shows, technical seminars, management seminars, equipment supplier contacts and raw material contacts
• Professional development classes in the areas of communication, conflict resolution, problem solving skills, statistical process control, advanced uses of software packages, world class manufacturing principles, quality systems, and other related fields.

Responsibilities

• Support Environmental Health & Safety for the facility, following all current policies and procedures and making an effort to improve the Environmental Health and Safety performance of our facility.
• Coordinate project orders with Production Planning to best fit production schedule with minimal impact to customer orders
• Provide technical guidance to Maintenance operations to make improvements and resolve issues based on process knowledge
• Leads change for Troubleshooting production and process problems; communicates with manufacturing, quality, and technical people regarding run problems; investigates root causes and recommends and helps implement corrective actions.
• Reviews data and trial reports from technical for products being developed and reports concerns and results to the appropriate department managers.
• Production Trial owner, following and coordination of production trials providing accurate and detailed feedback to Trial owners Manufacturing, Technical Manager and Marketing.
• Analyze trial quality, output and waste data to determine trial effectiveness / specification commercialization.
• Monitors and improves product quality. Resolves quality issues and dispositions quarantined product. Researches assignable causes of customer complaints and works closely with customers to resolve and prevent quality issues. Regularly visits customers and coordinates operator visits to customers.
• Writes, performs, analyzes, and reports on trials, scale-ups, and validations for the manufacturing processes. Makes recommendations based on trails
• Generate and gather ideas for product enhancements, cost savings, and new products from all sources (sales, vendors, customers, R&D, manufacturing, journals, and others); able to effectively communicate/interact with Sales, Marketing, and the Customer
• Provide suggestions for product enhancements to R&D engineers to improve manufacturing results based on process experience
• Operate as a “go-to” for other Engineers, operations, and maintenance for solutions to process or quality issues
• Assess current processes to look for areas of improvement in processes (including procedures, conditions, and equipment), and make those recommendations to management
• Target/resolve repetitive customer claim issues by working with customers and manufacturing
• Lead continuous improvement teams to deliver process and business improvements. Responsible for identifying and resolving issues that impact data aspects through root cause analysis and corrective action management as it relates to specification impacts to all operation resources & departments
• Develop and Commercialize New and Improved Products
• Develop specifications for new products and update existing specifications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written, to work with manufacturing operations personnel and management, both internally and externally.
• Strong mechanical and technical ability and aptitude
• Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong knowledge of raw materials to define better solutions
• Ability to coach and mentor less senior members of the organization
• Ability to analyze, problem solve and generate new ideas and be open minded to others’ ideas
• General knowledge of flexible packaging products, including the desired properties and quality standards for those products.
• Must have strong time management skills to handle multiple ongoing projects in addition to day to day process problems.
• Solid computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel, Outlook, Share Point, and the ability to quickly learn software needed to perform job specific duties.
• Strong knowledge of process used to manufacture and convert flexible packaging. Especially blown film, metallization, flexographic printing, extrusion coating, adhesive laminating, and slitting/winding operations.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision