Process Engineer

American Packaging Corporation•Churchville, NY

14h•Onsite

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, APC nurtures its 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. The company is constantly seeking to improve internal operations and has been named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row. This role is located in Chili, NY. The primary responsibility of the Process Engineer 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

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

Nice To Haves

Packaging converting experience
Knowledge of testing performed in a converting operation and knowledge of statistics and the ability to apply and interpret statistic to a manufacturing situation
Project management experience

Responsibilities

Analyze processes and products using statistical techniques, to identify improvement opportunities, and measure process/product performance to ensure continual improvement
Participate with the gathering of information needed to establish process conditions for new and developing products and processes
Observe trials/developmental orders and production runs, and communicate with the manufacturing, scheduling, sales, graphics, and supplier team members
Own 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, using 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
Work and communicate with all levels of the organization as required, from hourly production employee up to and including the Operations Director
Perform RCCA (Root Cause Corrective Action) of both Customer and Internal quality findings
Travel as needed to suppliers and/or customers