Process Engineer

Avery Dennison • Peachtree City, GA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Process Engineer at Avery Dennison, you will drive manufacturing excellence, process optimization, and variability reduction at the company’s Peachtree City, Georgia operations. You will apply engineering principles to optimize web handling and coating processes, support new product introductions, and deliver sustained improvements in quality and productivity. Working with Operations, Maintenance, R&D, and Quality Assurance, you will address production challenges and manage engineering projects that support product fitness and operational reliability. This is an onsite position.

The role includes designing, controlling, and optimizing material-processing operations; providing day-to-day technical support to Coating Operations; managing engineering and loss-reduction projects; supporting product launches and quality assurance; and promoting safety, compliance, and operator training.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree required.
• Four or more years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of applicable engineering software, hardware systems, function-specific software, and technical process controls.
• Proven ability to build and foster strong working relationships across organizational levels through delegation and teamwork.
• Ability to define and execute requirements in a fast-paced, cross-functional, matrixed manufacturing environment.
• Strategic and tactical thinking skills.
• Dynamic, proactive, energizing, can-do attitude.

Nice To Haves

• Degree in an engineering or engineering technology discipline.
• Working knowledge of process optimization.
• Experience with web handling and coating.
• Six Sigma Yellow or Green Belt certification, or practical experience applying Lean methodologies and continuous improvement tools.

Responsibilities

• Apply chemistry and mechanical engineering principles to design, control, and optimize material-processing operations, including unwinding, splicing, web guiding, coating, tension control, drying/curing, cooling, winding, hot melt compounding, and extrusion.
• Use Six Sigma and statistical tools to reduce process variability and conduct tests involving variables such as tension, moisture, temperature, and pressure.
• Provide day-to-day technical support to Coating Operations to resolve work-in-process and quality issues.
• Serve on the site on-call team for emergency support and partner with Maintenance to ensure equipment reliability.
• Initiate and manage standard engineering projects within timeline and budget constraints.
• Drive loss-reduction projects, equipment upgrades, sequence modifications, and capital equipment acquisitions to minimize scrap and optimize performance metrics.
• Partner with Marketing, Corporate R&D, and vendors to support new product launches.
• Establish raw material specifications, perform component failure analyses and life predictions, and ensure product fitness for use.
• Promote Environmental Health & Safety standards through active training and process improvements.
• Create troubleshooting guides, standard operating procedures, and structured training programs for coating operators.

Benefits

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with an automatic contribution of 3% of eligible pay and a matching contribution of 50% on the first 7% of eligible pay contributed.
• Healthcare and insurance options for employees and their families.
• Paid time off, with vacation amount varying based on experience and position.
• No-cost LGBTQ+ Inclusive Care program to help members find experienced, compassionate healthcare providers.

What This Job Offers

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