Senior Engineer, New Product Introduction Engineering

Entegris • Aurora, IL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Entegris is seeking a Senior Engineer, New Product Introduction Engineering, based at its Aurora, Illinois facility. This role serves as a bridge between R&D and Operations, supporting the transition of products from development to commercial manufacturing. The engineer builds technical and operational understanding of new products and processes, ensures operational readiness, mitigates launch risks, and supports delivery of high-quality products to customers.

The role partners with formulation scientists and other stakeholders to understand requirements, conducts hazard reviews, creates pilot-scale procedures, trains pilot plant operators, monitors batch quality, investigates non-conformances, and implements corrective actions. It also plans and executes product evaluation studies and additional experiments, then summarizes trial data and applies findings to manufacturing processes.

The engineer leads development of optimized manufacturing process designs for new product introductions, with attention to safety, quality, and production efficiency. Responsibilities include managing project scope, success criteria, deliverables, and timelines; resolving issues promptly; and working across R&D, Operations, Quality, Finance, Legal, and Procurement. Candidates should be technically strong, results-driven, proactive, effective communicators, comfortable managing ambiguity and multiple projects, and able to deliver with minimal guidance.

The position requires a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or a related technical field, at least five years of relevant industry experience, and at least three years each in manufacturing process design and project management. Compensation is listed at $135,000–$150,000 per year, with actual pay dependent on overall skills. The role is eligible for an annual bonus and offers paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employer match, health, dental and vision insurance, and education assistance. Entegris does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of demonstrated experience in the chemical process, semiconductor, food, or pharmaceutical industry, with a background in process development, commercialization, pilot plant, quality, scale-up, or manufacturing.
• At least 3 years of manufacturing process design experience, including defining equipment specifications and system commissioning and qualification.
• At least 3 years of project management experience owning project definition, timelines, and deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects and navigate ambiguity to achieve objectives with minimal instruction or guidance.
• Strong technical skills, initiative, accountability, work ethic, and ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Exceptional written and presentation skills; effective written and verbal communication.
• Experience owning projects of moderate size and complexity, including projects with timelines exceeding one year and internal or external resources.
• Experience performing root-cause investigations and corrective actions using tools such as 8D methodologies.
• Ability to determine process requirements, conceptualize process designs, and document manufacturing processes using process flow diagrams and P&IDs.
• Proficiency calculating fluid-dynamics variables relevant to liquid-handling systems and knowledge of process scaling factors.
• Proficiency specifying common liquid- and solids-handling equipment and documenting specifications.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Accolade.
• Experience with statistical process control; Six Sigma certification is preferred.
• Six Sigma DFSS or DMAIC Green Belt and knowledge or application of related tools.
• Experience with Visio, AutoCAD, JMP or Minitab, and SAP.
• Experience with COMSOL, VisiMix, or Aspen for modeling.

Responsibilities

• Partner with formulation scientists and stakeholders to understand product and process requirements.
• Conduct hazard reviews for new formulations and processes and identify and mitigate potential risks.
• Create pilot-scale procedures and train pilot plant operators.
• Monitor pilot-scale batch quality using statistical process control, investigate non-conformances, and implement corrective actions.
• Plan and execute routine product evaluation studies to understand product characteristics.
• Identify and complete non-standard experiments to understand and predict product performance and improve manufacturing processes; apply findings to manufacturing.
• Summarize and present trial data to project stakeholders.
• Lead development of optimized manufacturing process designs for new product introductions, emphasizing safety, quality, and production efficiency.
• Manage project scope, success criteria, deliverables, and timelines, and resolve issues promptly.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams including R&D, Operations, Quality, Finance, Legal, and Procurement.

Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility.
• Progressive paid time off policy.
• 401(k) plan with employer match and no delayed vesting.
• Health insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Education assistance.

What This Job Offers

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