Process Engineer
Position Location: Morgan Hill, CA
Position Type: Direct Hire
Position Salary: $95,000 - $125,000 (Depending on Experience) + Bonus
Responsibilities:
- Accountable and responsible for technical ownership of the production process.
- Responsible for the complete process control, technical oversight of a continuous production process, to ensure maximum up-time, with highest efficiency, excellent quality to provide mentorship and technical guidance to other process engineers.
- Lead multiple departmental efforts with new product development and production integration.
- Hands-on process engineering role, and will require ingenuity, flexibility and problem-solving capabilities using RCCA Lean Six Sigma or any other technical tools or data to solve the problem.
- Maintain, improve and contribute to the consistency of the production processes, recommend and execute upgrades to process control, and take leadership in production/equipment upgrades.
- Experienced in the methodology and techniques to produce continuous reinforced composite materials. Please note roles and responsibilities are subject to change with or without advanced notice.
- Responsible for executing all process engineering activities across a broad range of processes, ranging from manufacturing, process control/optimization, scrap reduction, and to support and lead engineering trials
- Recognizes, implements, and troubleshoots tools by providing root cause and corrective actions (RCCA) to problems associated with impregnation or batch mixing manufacturing processes.
- Lead and support in establishing and measuring process performance standards associated with quality, waste/throughput.
- Contributes and executes operational reviews and other efforts leading to safety, process improvements and cost reduction activities.
- Supports and provides feedback in investigations and execute RCCA in operational non-conformances and customer related issues.
- Support plans and executes capital projects and process improvement activities.
- Supports and participates in customer site audits/qualifications and visits
- Support targeted projects which include defining and documenting product and processing parameters, capability, cost reductions and manufacturing.
- Evaluates, troubleshoots, and solve quality processes, safety and process led improvements
- Documenting and creating manufacturing processes and methods per AS9100 (or equivalent) quality system
- Creates and provides training for manufacturing Configurations, Bills of Materials, Routers, Work Instructions, SPC/SQC, and Control Plans using manufacturing engineering best practices.
- Works with and leads all related functions including Manufacturing, Maintenance, Process Technology, R&D, Quality Assurance and Receiving/Shipping to achieve the company's objectives
- Must be able to support multiple projects.
- Assists in responsibility for the safety and environmental issues associated with the manufacturing processes and equipment.
- Supports process engineering and operation department leads/managers in his/her functional activities, and performs other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in material science, engineering, chemical, mechanical or related field: Higher education is a plus
- 5+ years of experience working in composite materials, aerospace manufacturing industry
- Prepregging or resin mixing manufacturing processes is highly preferred
- Mentorship, training or supervision experience preferred.
- In depth understand of statistical analysis, process control, project management, RCCA and FMEA
- Lean and Green Belt or Black Belt Six Sigma training, certification is a plus!
- Root Cause, PFMEA, Statistics & SQC/SPC
- Has in depth understanding of business ERP system (Microsoft Dynamic or similar)
- Must be able to communicate clearly (written and verbally) in English
- Able to work and communicate with interdisciplinary teams and the leadership team.
- Maintain work areas in a neat, orderly and safe manner
- Follow safety procedures for PPE (personal protection equipment)
- Previous experience with composite part manufacturing and/or composite impregnation processes. Specifically in thermoset/thermoplastic resin systems with carbon and/or glass tape/fabrics.
Benefits:
- Full Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- PTO
- Bonuses
- 401K + Matching
- Relocation Assistance (Applicable if needed)