This Process Engineer is responsible for driving continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing operations by identifying opportunities to enhance safety, quality, productivity, and cost performance. This role partners closely with plant operations, maintenance, quality, and leadership teams to analyze production processes, implement sustainable improvements, and standardize best practices. The Process Engineer serves as a technical resource for assigned subject areas, leads various types of projects, develops process documentation and operating procedures, and ensures all process changes support safe, efficient, and high-quality manufacturing operations. Through data-driven decision-making and cross-functional collaboration, this position helps optimize plant performance, reduce manufacturing costs, and improve cycle times.
Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
- Identify improvement opportunities in existing manufacturing operations, justify procedural changes or process modifications, and established operating procedures for the plant throughout the life of continuous improvement projects
- Collect and analyze data, justify procedural changes or process modifications, and establish operating procedures for the plant throughout the life of continuous improvement projects.
- Develop best practices, routines and innovative solutions to improve production rates and quality of output
- Create Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs) for existing and future state projects.
- Manage cost and time constraints for low to medium complexity projects.
- Conduct safety assessments to ensure safe practices are not sacrificed by procedural changes or process modifications.
- Serve as a technical lead in one or more subject areas.
- Generate process documentation, training, and standard operating procedures
- Optimize processes to attain lower manufacturing costs, increase productivity, and reduced cycle times
- Lead tactical site-level projects and contribute to regional and divisional projects
- Improve process procedures by partnering with operating employees in various departments to collect and analyze and implement results via training or capital expenditure recommendations.
- Identify procedural changes to improve manufacturing efficiencies.
- Assist management team in the execution and completion of CIP Projects.
- Utilize SHW control and quality systems to maximum benefit.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
Preferred
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment visa status
- Bachelors degree in Engineering or related field.
- Must have at least two (2) years’ experience in Engineering or related field.
- MS Viso, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint,
- Data Analytic Tools such as Watson, Business Objects
Preferred:
- Certifications: Six Sigma Knowledge, Transactional Lean, Root Cause Analysis
- Experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Autocad
- Minitab