Senior Improvement Engineer
About The Position
Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients. We are looking for our next Senior Improvement Engineer within our Methocel Manufacturing Technology Team. The MT Improvement Engineer will be responsible for identifying and executing medium to long term, non-Capex projects for productivity (cost & capacity), yield, quality, and sustainability improvements for the Midland, MI Methocel facility. This role will help execute early Front-End Loading (FEL) activities on Capex projects and support business case and scope development along with detail design, commissioning and start up activities. This role will also help drive key KPI initiatives for the site, including OEE, cost savings, etc. This position is located in Midland, Michigan, United States (Midland, MI, USA).
Requirements
- Preferred Bachelors of Science in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in manufacturing and engineering, preferably in Operations or Technology role.
Responsibilities
- Develop & drive improvement initiatives and metrics at the site and across the network as appropriate.
- Act as a key contact point for process technology problems at the site.
- Execute process safety Dust & Process Hazard Analyses and lead implementation of required follow up.
- Identify, develop/execute medium to longer term, non-CapEx projects for productivity (cost & capacity), yield, quality, and sustainability improvement.
- Execute early Front End Loading (FEL) activity on appropriate CapEx projects (Grow & Improve, quality improvement, etc.) to include business case & scope development.
- Support detailed design, lead commissioning & start-up activities, RTO as appropriate.
- Develop & own site mass balances & models to understand yield improvement and debottlenecking opportunities.
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions to address longer term production issues.
- Work with MC Technology Guardian to support process technology development.
- Work with the process R&D group to complete raw material & technology trials, new product scale up and execute DOE’s.
- Regular liaison with IE’s and production engineers at sister sites to leverage knowledge & experience on issue resolution and improvement activity.
- Mining & modelling process data to identify trends & changes, causes of variation, opportunities for improvement.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- annual performance bonus
- comprehensive benefits
- 6.2% company retirement contribution
- professional development opportunities
- Generous paid time off
- 12 annual paid company holidays
- 12 weeks 100% paid maternity leave
- up to 4 weeks 100% paid parental leave (including adoption/surrogacy/foster care leave) for non-birthing parents
- Student loan repayment assistance
- tuition reimbursement program for select roles
- Annual wellness benefit
- wellness centered programs focused on your health needs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
