Process Engineer

Shaw Industries • Aiken, SC

107d

About The Position

Shaw Industries is looking for a Process Engineer who assists the Twisting Department Manager in achieving excellent performance in safety, quality, efficiency, productivity, waste, and cost while ensuring compliance with all company, plant, and departmental guidelines and procedures. This position can be filled as Process Engineer or Sr. Process Engineer.

Requirements

• 4-year Engineering degree required; Chemical, Mechanical, or Materials Engineering degree preferred
• Strong communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong project management skills
• Six Sigma Black Belt trained or willingness to complete training
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office & Google Suite (preferred)
• Previous manufacturing experience (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Participate in and continuously improve on Safety, Quality, Productivity, and Cost
• Monitor safety of all processes in the Twisting department
• Responsible for the reliability and operation of equipment
• Responsible for troubleshooting of Tufting process and related equipment
• Serve as the extrusion process expert, with a consistent focus on improving productivity
• Provides coaching to mechanics, operators, and supervisors around safety, process, and productivity
• Drives root cause analysis and implementation of preventative measures for off quality fiber and customer complaints
• Participates in customer feedback calls and customer visits
• Monitors running conditions of twisting as needed to ensure the production of a first quality product
• Monitors product changes and startups to guard against contamination and off quality
• Confers with lab on out of spec quality checks
• Assists in improving the operational knowledge and improving the procedures within extrusion and in increasing the areas overall response time to out of spec conditions
• Utilizes BB training and Minitab data analysis for improving the process and the performance of project specific teams
• Write and edit departmental SOPs
• Assist within the twisting department operations as needed
• Provide technical assistance to the departmental manager, team managers, associates and internal customers on a daily basis
• Managing capital projects, driving TPM initiatives and cost improvements
• Responsible for managing LOTO procedures for the department
• Assist in leading and managing Intern(s), OMT(s), and Process Technician(s) as needed
• Understand and Support all SAFE, SMS, TPM, Lean Six Sigma & Environmental Efforts within the department
• Assist in developing and implementing plans to improve these areas where performance is under goal

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Textile Product Mills
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree