Engineering - Senior Process Engineer

Viant•Westfield, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for developing manufacturing processes for plastic injection molded components. The Senior Process Engineer will develop processes by establishing injection molded cycles of new and existing molds. The Senior Process Engineer will also define pre and post molded processes to optimize efficiencies, yields and productivity. The Senior Process Engineer will use process capability studies and other statistical techniques for defining process capability, identifying and eliminating sources of process variability. This individual will provide engineering support to production by troubleshooting injection molding processes and tooling, and by defining mold maintenance requirements. This individual will be responsible for providing customer support for new product development and resolving any quality problems with components.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field experience
Excellent project management skills, including managing multiple projects simultaneously.
Position requires 6 years experience in high volume injection molding environment, design, qualification, validation, building of molds, etc.
Strong injection molding experience in troubleshooting, optimizing processes and mold sampling.
Knowledge of part and mold design, mold fabrication and plastic resins.
Working knowledge of SPC, TQM, JIT and DFM principles.
Proficiency with MS Office software suites (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
Excellent communication and record-keeping skills.

Responsibilities

Develop programs and/or methods to optimize productivity and reduce cycle time, manufacturing losses, and overall costs.
Develop and execute project plans. Develop documentation for each project and work with associated plant personnel to implement it.
Establish process development technical guidelines.
Ensure that manufacturing requirements are properly developed and documented in conjunction with appropriate manufacturing, production, and engineering personnel.
Assure that the process of product adheres to ISO 14385 standards
Continuously improve existing processes using design of experiments and other methods to increase efficiencies.
Support the product development process by assisting the program teams as necessary to ensure successful product launches.
Provide information and technical assistance to manufacturing, engineering, and production personnel as required.
Implement Process Control and Process Discipline systems into manufacturing operations.
Mold validation process set-up, troubleshooting and process monitoring.
Quotes, procures, modifies and validates both new and existing production mold tooling.
Resolves technical tooling and process problems associated with both new and old tooling.
Assists in selection of tooling vendors.
Directs vendor interface, coordinates in-process changes and approves tooling upon completion.
Works with our vendors to perform new or modified component validations as applicable; determines the requirements and directs any tooling upgrades to existing tooling.
Monitors all molding operations, tracking efficiency and potential issues.
Scientific approach to problem solving machine issues. Tracks statistical data and utilizes SPC to continuous monitor and improve the efficiency of the molding operations.
Participates in variation scrap and cost reduction opportunities.
Works as a cross-functional team member with involvement in processes, various designs, troubleshooting, project management and cost analysis.
Assists in the collection of information, selection and implementation of new molding projects.
Creates procedures, routings and BOM’s. Assists with corrective actions to resolve non-conformances as root causes are identified.
Optimize manufacturing practices.
Improve work force by training Process Technicians and Mold Technicians on efficient machine. processing techniques as well as other data-based methods of decision making.
Other projects and tasks, as assigned.