- Field
- Manufacturing and process engineering
- Location
- Griffin, GA
- Work model
- Onsite
- Level
- Mid
- Pay
- $80k to $90k
About the role
The successful candidate must be comfortable operating as an engineering group of one , identifying problems, gathering and analyzing data, developing solutions, implementing improvements, documenting processes, and training others.
What you would own
- Analyze and improve existing production/manufacturing processes.
- Design, run, test, analyze, and upgrade systems and processes.
- Evaluate production, process-control, and quality systems using data and statistical analysis.
- Apply working knowledge of statistics, including mean, standard deviation, process variation, and related measurements.
- Lead root-cause analysis and corrective-action initiatives.
- Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements in safety, quality, productivity, and cost.
- Develop and establish procedures and best practices that support consistent, high-quality operations.
- Create and revise written procedures and work instructions based on process data and findings.
- Develop practical and innovative solutions to improve production rates and product quality.
- Work directly with production, maintenance, quality, and plant leadership to implement improvements.
- Train employees on new processes, procedures, and process improvements.
- Support ongoing digitalization and modernization of manufacturing processes.
- Ideal Background Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; Chemical or Mechanical Engineering preferred.
- Production/manufacturing experience as a Process Engineer required.
- Demonstrated success working independently with significant ownership of the process-engineering function.
- Strong analytical and statistical skills.
- Root-cause analysis and continuous-improvement experience.
- Experience developing, testing, analyzing, and improving manufacturing processes.
- Experience creating and revising SOPs, work instructions, and process documentation.
- Strong ability to translate data into practical manufacturing improvements.
- Comfortable working hands-on with operators, maintenance, quality, and production personnel.
- Plastics, polymers, thermoplastics, extrusion, compounding, or related process-manufacturing experience preferred.
- Experience with manufacturing digitalization, automation, or data-driven process improvement is a plus.
What they offer
- For the right individual, this role may also provide opportunity for broader leadership responsibility as the organization evolves.
Everything above is the hiring company’s own words, with the company name taken out. The name, the team, and the interview steps come with the first conversation.