Process Engineer

Opella•Chattanooga, TN

15d•$20 - $21•Onsite

About The Position

Your job as a Process Engineer will support the Plant Manager in delivering benchmark results, specific focus is on Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Quality, Material utilization, scrap, and cost. Ownership for daily +QDCI huddles. The Process Engineer will own execution of key loss elimination action plans ib the OEE group gap analysis for all process centers.

Requirements

You must have a bachelor's degree in engineering, or a science discipline preferred.
Experience in manufacturing of pharmaceuticals or food and beverage industries preferred.
Ensure weekly and monthly reports are completed in a timely manner to support improvement.
Interact with packaging supervision to identify development need and to develop team members.
Must provide performance metrics to drive improvement.
Must be able to perform without close supervision.
Must provide performance metrics to drive improvement.
You are required to comply with dress code regulations, be willing to undergo necessary training, and work in conditions with exposure to product, dust, grease, and packing machinery hazards.
You need to complete the required pre-employment testing.

Nice To Haves

Additional qualifications such as Lean Six Sigma Certification, previous pharmaceutical experience, and familiarity with Production Automation Systems like SAP are desirable.

Responsibilities

Defect Handling Ownership
Identify the root cause of product defects
Drive the elimination of the defect cause
Centerline owner
Develop team capability to execute Centerline (CL) standards
Own, track, report CL in process measure and evaluate and coach results
Set direction for and support execution if action plans
Drive CL deviation to root cause elimination
Quality owner
Develop team capability to execute Quality standards
Own, track, report CL in process measure and evaluate and coach results
Set direction for and support execution if action plans
Drive CL deviation to root cause elimination
Process Reliability support resource
Monitor OEE, uptime, downtime, change overs, and scrap
Analyze variance reports and coach team to develop and execute improvement plan
Provide technical expertise and daily coaching during resolution of work center issues
Perform Root Cause analysis and build capability in the team
Provide technical coaching on Kaizen execution
Project and Initiative support resource
Support project, initiative, and engineering study execution to ensure appropriate standards are provided to the business
Interface with Product Development and Process Validation to ensure vertical startup criteria are achieved