Are you a self-motivated, analytical and results oriented Engineer?? Johns Manville is seeking a Process Research Engineer that will use many approaches, including CFD, to solve practical industrial manufacturing problems to be based out of our Littleton, CO Technical Center!

This opportunity will allow you to focus on the improvement of throughputs, costs, life, efficiency, labor demand, downtime, and other aspects for processes (i.e. glass melting, delivery, collection, curing/drying, mat lines), across Engineered Products and Insulation Systems Divisions. You will work with various plants and cross-functionally with plant stakeholders, engineering, R&D, amongst others.

Anticipated deadline to apply: 02/01/2025. This deadline is Johns Manville’s good faith estimate of when the application will close. Johns Manville may extend the deadline and will update this posting promptly if it is extended.

Your Day to Day:

Working on different types of projects that cover the wide range of different processes used to make glass and polymer fibers at different Johns Manville manufacturing locations. These projects will include:

• Process technology improvements
• Understand needs, issues, and find business opportunity
• Use engineering principles to assess and develop the advancements or fixes to technologies, from near-term through long-term
• Apply Process Engineering techniques to improve existing processes and practices
• Complex process or component analyses or simulations
• Applying engineering first-principals
• Devise and perform research trials on complex challenges
• Developing novel analysis methods
• Creating 3D CAD models, meshing, setting up, and running CFD computer models
• Explore best practices (mesh studies, turbulence investigations, etc.)
• Process and numerical data analysis
• Analysis of data and predictions, including new approaches for making assessments
• Evaluation of practical technical options
• Report writing
• Plant Trials for Technology implementation
• Lead problem solving / root cause analysis using best available tools/methods.
• Lead/drive/organize/support plant trials to demonstrate/validate new process solutions or sources of production problems
• Lead implementation of new/improved manufacturing process technologies on the factory floor.

What You Bring to the Team:

• M.S. Degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Aerospace Engineering.
• 2+ years of experience in a manufacturing/engineering setting.
• Strong first-principals analysis capability
• Experience with 3D CAD and CFD codes, ideally:
• CFD with ANSYS Fluent
• Experience in reacting flows/combustion modeling
• Coding in Python and/or MATLAB
• Structural analyses using first principals and ANSYS Mechanical
• Industrial process improvement experience
• Expert data analysis skills.
• Project management skills – organization, planning, execution, and follow-up.
• Ability to work independently and in teams.
• Ability to develop clear and concise reports.
• Ability to apply technical knowledge to modify standard principles to develop alternative courses of action.
• Solid interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Basic project management skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Job site visits and field investigations will require walking, climbing ladders and stairways, crawling around equipment and exposure to weather elements including noise, heat, wind, rain, snow and cold.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ph.D. Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering
• Manufacturing plant industrial experience
• Glass processing experience
• Heat transfer knowledge
• Combustion expertise