Process Engineer

Day to Day Responsibilities:

New line set up:

• Interact and support new plant project team for process debug and production set up.
• Major work with project team on the topics of dies, hardware, extrusion, handling.
• Work with upstream and downstream process: batching, drying, and cutting.
• Establishing product run strategy, SOS(Standard Operating Setpoints) and SOP(Standard Operating Procedure) for production lines.

Lead and support daily production:

• Interact and support daily production; Responsible for Forming process performance.
• Investigating and analyzing process issues, providing troubleshooting support, developing solutions, and implementing permanent corrective actions.
• Establishing rigorous process control guideline and discipline (determine appropriate data collection, process monitoring, control methods).
• Providing training/certification of operators/technicians in process control and operation.
• Planning for new product introductions, ensuring production readiness, establishing capability, and resolving issues.

Die and Rebuild:

• Manage die inventory and order to ensure enough and appropriate dies are ready for production
• Manage extruder screw rebuild and element inventory maintenance to ensure robust extrusion production
• Lead process technician daily work, to ensure his/her support to die/hardware management, extrusion screw management, and daily forming support.

Continuous Improvement:

• Controlling process variation and making continuous improvements.
• Conducting experimentation to fundamentally understand cause and effect.
• Controlling effective implementation of process or equipment changes.
• Planning, directing, coordinating and/or leading projects to ensure effective implementation – achieving objectives, completed on time and within budget.
• Interacting with Corporate, Division and Plant resources to exchange and transfer new technology of best practices.
• Staying current as a ‘subject matter expert’ in their field of technical expertise.

Plant-wide principles:

• Implementing and enforcing procedures for maintaining a safe work environment.

Requirements:

MUST:

• BS/MS degree in Materials, Chemical, Physics, Science, Mechanical or equivalent. 
• 3+ years working experience in manufacturing environment.

PLUS:

• Work experience in multi-national companies highly preferred.
• Extrusion and/or Ceramic experience preferred.
• Experience in leading or participating project highly preferred.

Employee Referral Level: 3