Process Engineer

Piping Rock•Aurora, OH

About The Position

We’re a “safety first high performance” culture driven by a zero waste and zero defect mentality set out to enrich the lives of humans everywhere. As a leading vitamin and food supplement manufacturer, we carry on the legacy of our Founder who led us to reshape the category. We have grown our passionate Piping Rock Family as we’ve grown our business. We are growing quickly, join the Piping Rock family and grow your career. As a Process Engineer, you’ll be responsible for equipment re-design while implementing, controlling, and optimizing packaging/manufacturing processes and machinery to achieve organizational targets. You’ll work hand in hand with Production and Engineering to help improve standards that enable high performing production processes in our facility. Additional responsibilities include defining equipment standards, leading process and benchmarking and reapplication, and building capability within teams to do technical troubleshooting and process improvement and understanding the Piping Rock Continuous Excellence program and the respective tools.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field, preferably Industrial and Systems Engineering
3+ years of project/ process management experience in a manufacturing, or packaging environment.
Or Associates degree in a technical field.
7+ years of project/ process management experience in a manufacturing, or packaging environment.
Must be able to lift 30lbs
Must be able to stand for 8 hours
Must be able to work in a physically challenging environment.

Nice To Haves

Six Sigma or Lean certification.
Experience with process automation and control systems.
GMP environment a plus

Responsibilities

Analyze production loss data to identify and prioritize projects to be executed in factory's continuous improvement plan and develop technical mastery of the core production processes, driven by bottleneck/high losses. Lead v-curve analysis and balanced line flow studies and identify debottlenecking projects.
Initiate, lead, and modify process/improvements that will increase throughput, reduce scrap, improve quality, and eliminate losses. Implement LEAN manufacturing methods.
Drive and mobilize resources to conduct problem solving on systems or equipment through failure modes & effects analysis (FMEA) and other Six Sigma methodology.
Develop productivity standards, collect data to publish KPI and OEE reports.
Participate in planning, commissioning, and startup of new equipment/processes.
Creating and improving standards that enable sustainability of high preforming production processes and supporting training programs that develop high performing operators and technicians and.
Collaborating with technical experts, other functions, and other factories to create and replicate optimal solutions/best practices.
Establish operating parameters for each equipment by product to obtain reliable and efficient production
Responsible for working directly on the manufacturing lines and assisting mechanics during repairs to understand the process workflow.
Work schedule flexibility to overlap with other shifts as needed.
Other duties as assigned.