Process Engineer-Thermal

Luxwall • Litchfield, MI

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About The Position

LuxWall is focused on the product development, scaling, and commercializing of innovative Transparent Insulation products and solutions for the built environment. LuxWall’s vacuum insulated technology, Enthermal™, delivers a step change in energy performance, eliminating convective heat transfer and drastically reducing conductive and radiant heat gain and loss within buildings. The result is up to 45% in energy savings, while improving comfort and noise reduction. LuxWall has the potential to redefine building performance globally and forever change the way buildings are designed and constructed. Job Overview The Thermal Process Engineer is responsible for the process development, equipment development, process optimization, continuous improvement, process and equipment troubleshooting, and capital improvement projects related to the use of thermal heating systems for processing advanced materials and products. The person must have the necessary knowledge and skills to support the LuxWall fail fast product development methodology with fast learning cycles for rapid commercialization. LuxWall is seeking a high energy, entrepreneurial individual thermal process engineer who is looking for a manufacturing engineering challenge with growth opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (preferably mechanical or electrical) and minimum 5 years’ experience or engineering technology degree and minimum 10 years’ experience.
• Successful completion of college or higher-level course (or equivalent projects) of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and those of materials science or material engineering.
• Knowledge of continuous convection, radiant, hybrid and milli-meter microwave furnaces.
• Excellent problem solving, brainstorming, and troubleshooting skills.
• Highly proficient using MS Project software along with the MS Office product suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
• Extensive experience in formulating and managing project schedules using WBS and Gantt charts.
• Experience and exposure to working in high-volume manufacturing operations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with glass, coatings, fabricated glass, and glass system solutions is preferred

Responsibilities

• Responsible for optimizing line flow, cycle time, uptime, and process yield through changes in tool programming, thermal heating parameters, incoming material optimization, and incremental capital equipment for tool improvements.
• Maintain accurate and consistent schedules for projects and tasks for thermal heat treatment engineering projects.
• Help build preventative and predictive maintenance requirements and plans for thermal processing related equipment in manufacturing.
• Ensure the thermal heating systems achieve critical targets including output per hour, process yield, unscheduled downtime, MTTR, MTBF, number of required operators and other critical parameters per manufacturing planning and targets.
• Ensure that all equipment is installed and operated in a safe manner and has appropriate engineering controls, where applicable, to ensure safe operation.
• Develop written procedures for SOPs and work instructions for process operators and technicians with the metrics being defined as safety, quality, production outputs and documentation.
• Collaborate with R&D organization for transfer of new products, processes, and equipment to high volume production.
• Responsible for training process technicians on thermal heat treatment and processing technology, tool operation, tool preventative maintenance, process metrology and quality control, and troubleshooting.
• Responsible for ensuring the heat-treated materials, process and equipment satisfy the cost of goods sold (COGS) targets, manufacturing cycle time, uptime and yield and output per hour so the company reaches is COGS targets.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level