Production Engineer

Syensqo • Rock Hill, SC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Syensqo is seeking a Production Engineer for its carbon fiber production site in Rock Hill, SC. This role is crucial for ensuring that defined processes meet or exceed production targets in terms of HSE, quality, productivity, cost, and delivery. The Production Engineer will lead improvement initiatives to optimize processes using lean/six sigma methodologies, act as the lead process owner for the production line, and provide direct technical troubleshooting support. The position requires ensuring asset utilization metrics are tracked and acted upon, documenting procedures, evaluating daily performance, investigating production variances, developing performance reporting systems, and managing product configuration aspects like routing effectiveness and bills-of-materials. The role also involves ensuring the production line conforms to the Quality System and customer requirements, maintaining control documents, investigating quality upsets, transferring engineering instructions for trials, performing hazard analyses, defining operational guidelines, sharing best practices, and supporting Syensqo's improvement initiatives and behaviors. A key responsibility includes maintaining and managing BOM and routings in SAP and leading continuous/Lean improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's level degree in Mechanical Engineering required.
• Minimum three years' experience in manufacturing processing environment is preferred.
• Troubleshooting and problem solving skills are essential to resolve quality and efficiency issues.
• Understanding of Statistical Process Control methodology necessary to maintain operating processes at target limits.
• Proficient in written and verbal communication and ability to function as an individual contributor or as a project team leader.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft/Google required to effectively analyze process data to ensure compliance with established control limits.
• Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of SAP a plus.
• Experience with statistical software a plus.
• Lean/Six Sigma experience in process improvements and optimization a plus.
• An understanding of process flow and how various chemical, mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems interact to produce a product of the desired quality in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Responsibilities

• Provide technician leadership support to ensure currently defined processes meet or exceed production targets in terms of HSE, quality, productivity, cost, and delivery by leading improvement initiatives to optimize processes through the lean/six sigma process.
• Lead Process owner for the production line ensuring process parameters of existing process are in statistical control.
• Leads the direct day-to-day technical troubleshooting for the production line and on-call off hours to assist in resolving production issues.
• Ensures asset utilization metrics such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), cycle time, downtime are tracked, recorded and deviations to standard are being actioned.
• Assures clearly defined procedures and instructions are documented and issued to support the improvements developed by Process Engineers.
• Evaluates daily performance and identifies and eliminates special cause variations.
• Investigates and provides Accounting with detailed explanations of noted production variances on closed production orders.
• Develop systems for measuring and reporting performance vs. productivity and quality goals.
• Leads investigation and defines corrective actions for closed job variances.
• Maintains and manages routing effectiveness, bills-of-materials, routings, scrap, yield, and other aspects of product configuration.
• Works directly with Production Teams to ensure the production line conforms to the Quality System and customer requirements.
• Maintains, develops, and updates all control documents such as standard operating procedures, production logs, and quality records.
• Investigates and proposes corrective actions for quality upsets identified by Quality Engineers.
• Transfers engineering instructions for trials and non-standard products into an executable plan.
• Performs hazard analysis and MHA’s along with HSE&E engineers to develop procedures for non-routine tasks.
• Defines operational guidelines in finite scheduling.
• Share best operational practices with other Production Engineers.
• Supports the Syensqo improvement initiatives.
• Maintains BOM and routings in SAP.
• Leads continuous/Lean improvement initiatives with a focus on improving customer satisfaction and the efficiency of the production line.
• Support the Syensqo improvement initiatives and models Syensqo behaviors.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• The U.S. base salary range reasonably expected to be paid for this position is $80,800.00 to $101,000.00 per year.
• Total compensation for this role also includes bonus and/or other incentives.
• 16, or more, weeks of maternity/paternity and co-parenting leave, according to local regulations
• Training platform for all employees
• Free well-being sessions (physical and psychological)

What This Job Offers

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