We are hiring a Manufacturing Engineer at our Riverside, CA facility who has a passion for continuous improvement. You will help foster a hands-on, servitude culture impacting our team’s commitment in meeting our customer’s expectations and will help drive our solution-based business model. You will be responsible for executing a focused effort to improve operational effectiveness and strategic projects. Success in this position requires the development of collaborative relationships and delivery of measurable results through improvement projects. .

Supported Plant Locations:

2375 Third Street Riverside, CA 92507, USA

Key Responsibility:

• Develop a deep understanding of products, customers, goals, organization, and business strategies, evaluating systems and processes, and identifying improvement needs
• Review, follow and advise on operational processes and detect areas that can be improved
• Follow established and current lean initiatives, advocate and foster continuous improvement activities
• Participate in the purchasing processes for operation’s machines and equipment, following the annual CAPEX investment plan for new acquisitions
• Develop, train, and educate operation staff, guide technical direction
• Work with maintenance team to maximize efficiencies and develop a pro-active plan to eliminate non-value activities and reduce scrap
• Assist in the preparation of a critical spare parts list and work to improve current PM program
• Support plant operations on equipment related issues that come up in the plant and helps insure smooth plant operation
• Identify ways to improve efficiency and productivity, and providing maintenance and support activities for all existing solutions
• Improve equipment life cycle and increase automation

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering; preferably Mechanical, Chemical, or Industrial Engineering
• 3+ years’ experience in the Liquids or Aerosol filling/packaging industry (required)
• Strong advocate for safety and quality control processes
• Experience in developing and executing Capital projects to reduce downtime and/or costs
• Must be a “hands on” problem solver
• Proven ability to analyze and troubleshoot production processes
• Process safety management (PSM) certification a plus