The Process Engineer improves the safety, quality, reliability, throughput, and cost performance of assigned manufacturing processes. This role serves as the technical owner for designated production lines and leads data-driven process improvements, standardization, equipment optimization, trials, and capital initiatives.
The Process Engineer establishes process controls and standard work, leads troubleshooting and improvement efforts, supports trials and scale-up activities, trains employees on new and revised processes, and communicates findings and recommendations to plant leadership. The role operates with a high degree of day-to-day independence, exercising sound judgment within established standards and seeking guidance for unfamiliar, higher-risk, or strategically significant decisions. The role delivers measurable, sustainable improvements through sound engineering analysis and disciplined execution.
You Will Have the Opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!
Manufacturing & Process Improvement
- Develop and maintain subject-matter expertise for assigned production lines and critical assets, with guidance available for unfamiliar or higher-risk technical decisions.
- Coordinate improvement initiatives that address identified safety, quality, productivity, and manufacturing-efficiency losses within assigned processes.
- Develop, standardize, and maintain manufacturing process standards and process controls that improve operational consistency and support future growth.
- Develop and deliver training for new and revised processes to improve employee capability, process understanding, and operating performance.
- Monitor manufacturing performance data to confirm process stability, detect emerging trends, and identify coaching or corrective-action needs.
- Train operations personnel on fundamental process principles, standard operating responses, and recovery procedures to build capability and promote consistent execution.
- Build trusted working relationships with operations personnel through active listening, respectful two-way communication, and collaborative problem-solving.
Technical Engineering
- Lead structured troubleshooting of complex process and equipment failures; identify root causes; implement permanent corrective actions; and establish response standards for recurring conditions.
- Lead engineering evaluations that optimize equipment performance, process capability, and product consistency.
- Develop and maintain process specifications, operating standards, control plans, and engineering documentation that improve process stability, operator consistency, and audit readiness.
- Plan and execute the manufacturing implementation and scale-up of new products, equipment, and processes.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Production, Maintenance, Quality, Research and Development, and Engineering to resolve technical issues, coordinate corrective actions, and improve plant performance.
- Provide engineering support for product-quality investigations, identify process-related causes, and implement corrective actions that improve process capability and product consistency.
- Collaborate with suppliers and technical partners to evaluate manufacturing technologies, document technical findings, and recommend improvements for plant application.
- Plan and execute process trials, including design of experiments where appropriate to validate improvements before full implementation.
Continuous Improvement
- Lead structured problem-solving initiatives to eliminate chronic process, equipment, and design-related losses using Lean manufacturing methods, Kaizen events, focused improvement actions, and other appropriate root-cause analysis techniques.
- Analyze production losses, downtime, scrap, quality variation, process capability, rate performance, and cost data to identify root causes, prioritize opportunities, and present actionable recommendations to plant leadership.
- Quantify improvement results through validated data and performance metrics, and establish control plans, monitoring, and ownership routines to sustain the gains.
- Develop engineering recommendations that define the expected operational benefit, implementation requirements, risks, and measures of success.
Capital Projects
- Support capital improvement projects from planning through implementation while meeting project objectives, schedules, and budgets, with appropriate guidance.
- Contribute to the successful execution of engineering projects by developing project requests, coordinating assigned actions, and working with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
- Evaluate project feasibility by analyzing process data, defining operating requirements, and documenting anticipated benefits and technical risks.
You Will Love It Here If…
- You listen, learn, and evolve
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment
- You put safety first, always
- You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
- You believe in treating all people with respect, operating ethically, and growing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
- You are committed to improving our impact on local communities and creating positive experiences
