Position Summary
As a Process Engineer, you'll be at the heart of qualifying new products and enhancing production operations. Your mission will be to ensure customer technical and quality requirements are met, while maximizing efficiency and cost-effectiveness. You'll also play a vital role in resolving technical challenges and collaborating across teams to ensure seamless production.
Primary Functions
As a key player in our engineering and production efforts, you will:
- Coordinate and Innovate: Lead activities within the Engineering Department, adapting processes to meet capacity changes.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyze production and lab data to align efforts across departments.
- Collaborate with Customers: Work directly with customers to modify products and meet their technical needs.
- Blueprint and Spec Analysis: Review product specs, drawings, and quality control requirements to ensure feasibility.
- Project Leadership: Oversee the entire qualification process, including planning kick-off meetings, Manufacturing Process Plans, First Piece Qualification, and Pilot Lot Qualification.
- Technical Support: Provide tools, robotic programs, and masking solutions for new products, ensuring smooth transitions into production.
- Production Partnership: Support production and quality teams to troubleshoot and refine workflows.
- Continuous Improvement: Maintain indicators, prepare operational instructions, and support quality, safety, and environmental certifications.
Additional Duties
- Take on additional responsibilities as needed to contribute to company success.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
What you bring to the table:
- A Bachelor's Degree in Material Science, Chemical, or Mechanical Engineering.
- A deep understanding of technical production processes and the ability to interpret technical drawings.
- Strong problem-solving skills, a sense of urgency, and clear, concise communication.
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel .
- Familiarity with ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems is a plus.
- Physical capability to lift 50 pounds and sit at a computer for extended periods.
- Ability to travel occasionally (up to 10%).
- A team-oriented attitude and adaptability to both climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled environments.