POSITION SUMMARY:
Improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of production processes and equipment through the application of engineering principles. Facilitate trials, equipment upgrades, and new equipment installations with careful planning, documentation, and communication. Support production and maintenance through root cause analysis.
RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:
- Work with manufacturing departments to improve current production processes. Improvements would include, but not be limited to productivity improvements, set up time reductions, overall efficiencies improvements, and/or scrap reduction initiatives.
- Assist in providing technical support as it applies to changes to the production process.
- Work with subsidiary manufacturing departments as liaison to assist in the implementation of suggested improvement to the process and production procedures.
- Assist with the launches of new and/or different production projects.
- Specify new equipment and upgrade requirements alongside the maintenance team and third-party vendors.
- Assess the process development of new products through production scale trials.
- Commission new lines and equipment.
- Work with related departments to implement work instructions and routines.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve safety, reliability, and efficiency challenges facing production and maintenance.
- Other duties as assigned
Required Education, Experience & Training:
- Ability to work different hours to accommodate plant requirements
- Ability to effectively communicate with and support multiple departments including R&D, sales, production, production personnel, etc.
- Capable of performing under pressure and keeping track of multiple issues simultaneously
- Highly organized and detail oriented with the ability to keep information readily available for review
- Project management
- Bachelor degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Materials, Polymer or Industrial Engineering with 3-5 years experience preferred.
- Desirable educational experiences include: Technology of plastics compounding and extruding, Familiarity with Word and Excel, Experience with electrical and mechanical systems, CAD skills, Working knowledge of Safety and Environmental laws, Statistical data analysis. Experience with thermoplastics, Polyethylene, Polypropylene, HDPE, LLDPE, LDPE, TPE, elastomers, EPR, polyolefins, or polymers would be a plus.
