Senior Process Manufacturing Engineer (NPI)
About The Position
The Advanced Process Manufacturing Engineer serves as a senior technical authority responsible for defining, optimizing, and governing robust manufacturing process strategies that support safe, compliant, and high-performing operations across STERIS. The role leads resolution of complex, systemic manufacturing challenges; establishes scalable process engineering standards and best practices; and provides technical oversight for major process changes, equipment introductions, and capacity expansion initiatives to improve efficiency, capability, and product quality. The position also provides technical direction for cross-site manufacturing initiatives, supports evidence-based performance improvement decisions, and offers technical leadership in the use of manufacturing ERP/MRP systems to align process strategies, capacity planning, and material flows with long-term operational performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least 8 years of manufacturing or process engineering experience.
- Expertise in process analysis, validation, and improvement.
- Experience leading complex initiatives.
- Experience in regulated industries, such as medical devices, healthcare, or industrial manufacturing.
Nice To Haves
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Lean certification.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical authority for complex or high-risk manufacturing processes, defining process strategies that balance safety, capacity, cost, and long-term sustainability requirements.
- Lead resolution of complex, systemic manufacturing issues spanning multiple processes, products, or operational areas; identify root causes and ensure corrective actions prevent recurrence.
- Define and standardize process manufacturing engineering best practices, methodologies, and technical standards to improve consistency, scalability, and compliance.
- Provide technical oversight for major process changes, equipment introductions, and capacity expansion initiatives by defining technical requirements, reviewing risk, and ensuring validation expectations are met.
- Establish governance for process design, validation rigor, and change-control expectations within manufacturing engineering execution.
- Provide technical direction for cross-site manufacturing initiatives, including deployment of standardized methods, controls, and documentation expectations.
- Support performance improvement decisions through evidence-based technical analysis of process capability, constraints, and risk impacts.
- Provide technical leadership in using manufacturing ERP/MRP systems to align process strategies, capacity planning, and material flows with long-term operational performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.
- Lead complex process optimization initiatives by evaluating system-level constraints, performance data, and risk impacts, and defining improvement strategies that enhance efficiency, capability, and sustainability across multiple processes or sites.
Benefits
- Paid time off and company-observed holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage options.
- Disability coverage for income protection.
- Retirement savings plan with company match.
- Family leave support for qualifying life events.
- Supplementary benefit programs for added protection.
- Tuition assistance and continuing education support.
- Career development and internal advancement pathways.
- Well-being resources supporting work-life balance.
- Bonus participation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
