Process Engineer, Extrusion

PROCESS ENGINEER – EXTRUSION 

PAY:  80-120K plus bonus depending on experience level and breadth of experience

SUMMARY:  Our client is a growing and profitable manufacturer in Cleveland OH.   In this role, you will work on a wide variety of process engineering products, including new product and material trials, setting up full-scale production, and process improvement. 

Process Engineer Responsibilities: 

• Optimizing processes from design to product launch and continual improvement

• Successfully introducing new extruded products, including heavy involvement in design, extrusion and fabrication tooling, materials and material development. 

• Document process requirements, setup and process parameters to assure equipment and plant team are capable of producing quality products.  

• Implementation of SOP’s (standard operating procedures) including standard work, workplace organization, quality and packaging specifications.

• Complete time studies to identify opportunities for efficiency improvements.

• Coordinate continuous improvement and production process refinement efforts.

• Coordinate all applicable product testing verification and ongoing validation to meet product specifications as well as comply with applicable local and governmental regulations.      

Qualifications: 

• BSChem-E, BS Polymer Science, BS Chemistry, BS Plastics Engineering, or similar. M Will consider non-degreed people with vast extrusion experience.

• 3 years of functional and HANDS-ON process engineering experience within polymer extrusion processes, with experience running extruders in trials.  

• 2 years experience with Continuous Improvement tools such as lean manufacturing, Kaizen, 6 sigma.  

• Very strong experience with SOP’s and WI’s, as well as SPC.

• Experience establishing testing criteria and setting up tests for operations.

• Must have extrusion die design experience

• Must have extrusion profile hands on processing experience