Process Specialist- All Crews

Trex•Little Rock, AR

19h•Onsite

About The Position

The Process Specialist is responsible for ensuring all safety policies and guidelines are followed, identifying restrictions, and providing solutions. This role ensures all safety equipment and tools are tracked, available, and maintained, and conducts tool audits. The Process Specialist is also responsible for ensuring product quality meets expectations, reaction protocols are followed and documented, and drives consistent manufacturing procedures between crews. This role involves completing required documentation for shift handoffs and tier meetings, working with process engineering for documentation and implementation of key process and troubleshooting functions, and supporting employee training on current, new, or updated processes. The Process Specialist identifies development opportunities, provides feedback on scrap fallout, leads cost-saving initiatives, and acts as a bridge between night and day shifts for production consistency. They ensure correct operation of systems and sub-systems on production lines, assist in troubleshooting, monitor performance and parameters, and escalate to engineering as appropriate. This role serves as an SME for SOP creation and updates, provides process guidance, and maintains knowledge of current operating procedures. Responsibilities include overseeing all production activities in assigned areas (rate, yield, uptime, standard work tracking, tool tracking, audits), collaborating with supporting functions and operators to optimize production, ensuring recipe compliance, controlling unplanned downtime, and managing repairs/startups. The Process Specialist also reports and documents environmental logs, drives housekeeping and 5S efforts, ensures quality consistencies, completes and communicates filter changes, facilitates training classes, provides break relief for line operators, and manages safety and production work orders. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

High School diploma or equivalent
Must be Machine Operator or above
Previous Trex manufacturing experience (3+ years)
Must be at least a Machine Operator
Certified on forklifts (up to G50)
Man lift certification is required
Must be able to collect and analyze large scales of data using Excel
Strong problem solving, communication, and organizational skills
Teamwork
Emotional intelligence (soft skills)
Respectful demeanor and communication style
Attention to detail
Willing to train others
Flexibility
Technically proficient
Regular and predictable attendance.
Employee will be required to work within Microsoft Office applications.
Must be able to operate plant machinery (forklifts, man lifts, etc.) and online systems (RFS, JDE, etc.)
Must be able to work 12 hour shifts, standing for extended periods of time
Must be able to be forklift certified, requiring proper vision, hearing, and motor skills
Must be able to ascend and descend ladders, scaffolds, stairs and work in confined spaces and in proximity to loud equipment.
Must be able to wear a respirator.
Must be able to work at heights and properly wear fall protection
Must be able to lift and carry or otherwise move 50 pounds.
Must be able and willing to comply with PPE requirements at all times.
Must be able to move safely over uneven terrain or in confined spaces.
Must be able to work in hot environments and on concrete floors.

Nice To Haves

Previous technical leadership experience
Machine Operator 2 experience

Responsibilities

Ensures all safety policies and guidelines are followed.
Identifies restrictions and provides solutions.
Responsible for ensuring that all safety equipment and tools are tracked, readily available, and maintained.
Responsible for tool audits.
Responsible for ensuring product meets all quality expectations and reaction protocols are being followed and documented.
Drive consistent manufacturing procedures and practices between crews.
Complete all required documentation for the shift for proper handoff and tier meetings.
Works with process engineering to ensure detailed documentation and implementation of key process and troubleshooting functions.
Support training of all employees on current, new, or updated processes.
Identify development opportunities.
Follow up and provide detailed feedback on second-pass scrap fallout.
Lead cost saving initiatives.
Provide a bridge between night and day shift production to ensure consistency.
Ensure correct operation of systems and sub systems on each production line.
Assist in troubleshooting efforts with ongoing issues and monitor performance and parameters during shift; escalate to engineering as appropriate.
Serve as SMEs for the creation and updating of SOP’s.
Provides process guidance to other employees.
Knowledge of current operating procedures and the ability to stay current as procedures change.
Responsible for all production activities in assigned production areas; rate, yield, uptime, standard work tracking, tool tracking, standard work audits, etc.
Collaborate with supporting functions and operators to optimize production.
Ensures recipe compliance on each production line in the assigned area.
Controls unplanned downtime – repairs/startup of the production lines.
Report and document all environmental logs.
Drive housekeeping and 5S efforts across assigned production area.
Drive quality consistencies across assigned production areas following set specifications.
Complete, document, and communicate filter changes.
Facilitate production area training classes; both on and off shift.
Provide production area relief for line operators during break time to maintain high uptime and yield.
Responsible for entering and following through to completion both safety and production work orders.
Other duties as assigned.