Process Engineer
About The Position
The Process Engineer will provide technical and engineering oversight and support to the Production/Technology group. This role balances quality, productivity, cost, safety, and morale to achieve positive results and continuous improvement in all areas. The engineer will develop, maintain, and suggest improvements to production and quality models, monitor process changes, and develop techniques for process analysis, trending, and data collection. Responsibilities include enforcing company policies, maintaining equipment, improving safety standards, championing sanitation, housekeeping, and GMP standards, and ensuring compliance with ISO standards. The role also involves monitoring training needs, developing training for specific processes, taking a proactive stance on safety, maintaining a positive working environment, participating in audits, supporting process development projects, providing back-up for supervisory roles, supporting management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, FSSC 22000), executing Corrective and Preventive Actions, and performing other projects as directed.
Requirements
- BS in an Engineering Discipline in either Chemical, Mechanical, or Food Engineering
- Strong communicational skills both oral and written are essential.
- Understanding of statistics and statistics software for data processing (stat graphics, statistic process control, etc.)
- The ability to maintain constructive relations, despite occasional conflicts, with the entire workforce is extremely important.
- Ability to design and carry out, report on, and interpret results of experimentation at a professional level.
- Good computer skills with advanced-level proficiency using computers for email, word processing, and spreadsheets is required.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical and engineering oversight and support to the Production/Technology group.
- Balance quality, productivity, cost, safety, and morale to achieve positive results and continuous improvement.
- Develop, maintain, and suggest improvements to all production & quality models.
- Monitor process changes to stay current with updates to the production process.
- Develop and utilize techniques for process analysis, process trending, and process data collection.
- Enforce Company policies and procedures while maintaining equipment and improving safety standards in the plant.
- Maintain a clean department by championing good sanitation, housekeeping and GMP standards.
- Ensure compliance with all ISO standards.
- Monitor training needs for self and department, making recommendations for attendance at beneficial training functions.
- Develop training for specific processes within the production department.
- Take a pro-active stance towards safety to achieve annual plant safety targets.
- Maintain an effective, professional, and harmonious working environment.
- Participate in customer audits and regulatory audits.
- Support Engineering and Technical Services departments on process development projects.
- Provide back-up responsibilities for General Supervisor and Production Manager.
- Support the ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and FSSC 22000 management systems and the Quality, Environmental, and Food Safety Policy as appropriate in the function.
- Execute assigned Corrective and Preventive Actions related to audit findings, customer complaints, and product that fails testing.
- Record information regarding actions in the CAR database and monitor actions’ due dates.
- Perform other projects as directed by the Production Manager and Plant Manager.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
