Job Description

PROCESS ENGINEER – PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, EXTRUSION

Our client is an international leader in product innovation, and they are growing rapidly. This is a new position created to support product development and operational excellence in their company. You will be a key player in optimizing processes and manufacturing equipment in their operations, and will be responsible for managing equipment, process, and tooling projects.

Process Engineer Responsibilities:

• The Primary responsibility is implementation of new projects on time and within budget.
• Optimizing the manufacturing process from implementation to the plant floor to product commercialization (and then continual improvement).
• Implementing standardized work through creation of Standard Operating Procedures along with Statistical Process Control for new and existing products.
• Manage new project startups and new tooling processing to ensure that run rates and quality parameters are achieved.
• Responsible for thoroughly documenting process requirements and parameters to assure equipment and work cell team have the tools needed to make a repeatable process.
• Complete time studies to set up new projects most efficiently and identify opportunities for efficiency improvements on existing products.
• Coordinate continuous improvement and production process refinement efforts.
• Coordinate all applicable product testing verification and ongoing validation to meet product specifications as well as comply with applicable local and governmental regulations.

Qualifications:

• BS Industrial Engineering, BSME, or similar.
• 5 years of functional and HANDS-ON process engineering experience within polymer extrusion processes such film, sheet or profile extrusion.
• Very Process-oriented individual with strong experience in process standardization, creating Work Instructions, SOP’s, and implementing SPC.
• Experience testing polymer materials to ensure they meet specifications.
• Extremely strong Project Management skills.
• 2 years experience with Continuous Improvement tools such as lean manufacturing, Kaizen, 6 sigma.
• CAD skills to create plant layouts, fixtures, etc.