Process Engineer

American Packaging Corporation•Cedar City, UT

About The Position

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row. It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future. LOCATION: Cedar City, UT SUMMARY: Primary responsibility is monitoring and measuring process and product performance, establishing and implementing recommendations for improvements to both product and process, and ensuring optimal production of the various products produced by American Packaging.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Associate’s degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; with two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
Understand and apply statistical techniques for process improvement.
Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
The physical demands described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. This position may require manual lifting not to exceed 50 lbs – reference your department-specific JHA (job hazard analysis) for departmental lifting restrictions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision.

Nice To Haves

Packaging converting experience is highly desirable.
Knowledge of testing performed in a converting operation and knowledge of statistics and the ability to apply and interpret statistic to a manufacturing situation is desired.
Project management experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Analyze processes and products using statistical techniques to identify opportunities for improvement and measure process/product performance, ensuring continual improvement.
Participate in the gathering of information needed to establish process conditions for new and developing products and processes. This involves observing trials/developmental orders, production runs, and communicating with team members from manufacturing, scheduling, sales, graphics, and the supplier.
Ownership of CI projects as assigned. Lead projects, provide data, and set up projects to achieve CI goals.
Organize and lead process and product improvement teams/initiatives, utilizing established project management techniques, to improve product quality and process performance, and lead the implementation of those improvements.
Ensure that manufacturing specifications are known, understood, and communicated.
Provide engineering expertise as needed.
Analyze production and test data to establish consistent production results.
Utilize data to recommend design changes to correct/resolve problems and contribute to the optimization of products to the required technological specifications or end uses.
Ability to work and communicate with all levels of the organization as required. This will range from hourly production employee up to and including the Operations Director.
The work schedule must be flexible to accommodate attendance at trials/production during nights and/or weekends as needed.
Investigate for Root Cause Corrective Actions of both Customer and Internal quality findings
Travel as needed to suppliers and/or customers.

Benefits

MEDICAL/HEALTH INSURANCE
DENTAL - EMPLOYER PAID
VISION - EMPLOYER PAID
SHORT/LONG TERM DISABILITY - EMPLOYER PAID
HSA W/EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS
FSA - HEALTH AND/OR CHILDCARE
11 PAID HOLIDAYS
PTO - INCREASED IN 2026!
401(k) - EMPLOYER MATCHING!
+ BONUSES INCLUDING QUARTERLY PRODUCTION, YEARLY HOLIDAY AND QUARTERLY PRODUCTION!
AND MORE!