Chemical Process Engineer On-site

Mine Safety Appliances Company Limited - Cranberry Township, PA

Full-time - Mid Level

Cranberry Township, PA

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

The Chemical Process Engineer at MSA Safety is responsible for maintaining high Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) standards while managing chemical processes. This role involves providing expertise in chemical-related issues, supporting the facility with various chemical processing tasks, and leading process improvements. The engineer will work closely with manufacturing and engineering teams to optimize chemical processes and ensure compliance with safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a high level of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) standards when managing and working with chemicals and chemical processes.
• Provide expertise and recommendations for chemical-related issues including waste profiling.
• Support the facility with processing electrochemical, catalytic bead combustible, and infrared gas detecting sensors.
• Solve technical processing issues through investigating, planning, and conducting experiments, DOEs, analyzing, validating improvements, and documenting new process standards.
• Maintain a working knowledge/experience of hazardous chemicals.
• Develop processes and assembly methods to meet or exceed product cost and design targets and improve quality.
• Support Beta build planning, coordination, execution through manufacturing, initial test, data analysis, and delivery to engineering.
• Design and optimize chemical processes for ultra-high purity gas chemical manufacturing systems.
• Develop engineering documents such as Process Flow, Instrumentation, Specs, etc.
• Lead as the technical expert to process improvements and failure investigations.
• Collect and assess research and process data to document and maintain statistical control of production operations and process development.
• Provide process expertise for proposed design changes and improvements.
• Support system and process parameter setup, verification, and release to production.
• Analyze data from internal and external customer-related issues providing technical support and failure investigation.
• Analyze customer specifications and requirements for implementation into manufacturing processes.
• Give technical presentations to staff and customers as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Analytical Chemistry, Physics, Chemistry, or related discipline from an ABET accredited program.
• Two or more years of hands-on experience with the design, fabrication, testing, and performance of catalysts/sorbents and/or resistive thermal sensors.
• Process knowledge of chemicals and chemical processing.
• Electrochemical processing knowledge and experience.
• Catalytic combustible bead processing knowledge and experience.
• Infrared gas detecting sensors processing knowledge and experience.
• Leadership skills to coach, mentor, and provide technical guidance to various engineering disciplines and technicians.

Nice-to-haves

• Develop and support a behavior-based safety environment.
• Experience leading cost savings efforts in a production environment.
• Support and implement the MSA Business System.
• Ability to use Six Sigma Green Belt training, project experience, and Minitab.
• Acquire a working knowledge of adhesives.
• Experience with small-scale resistance welding.
• Experience with heat sealing.
• Experience with SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Full-time position with 40 hours per week
• Day shift work hours