Henkel - Saint Louis, MO
posted 3 months ago
At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47,000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Consumer Brands continuously drive the evolution in dynamic categories: Laundry & Home Care and Hair. With our trusted brands, including Persil and Schwarzkopf, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth. The Chemical Process Engineer optimizes the operational conditions to ensure that finished products meet the quality and reliability targets. This role involves designing operational strategies, procedures, and methods according to Formula Card and Finished Product variables. The engineer will plan and undertake scheduled process interventions in the cell, carry out routine reviews on operational conditions, raw material quality, addition systems, and process conditions to avoid out of compliance and other problems with production. In addition, the Chemical Process Engineer will respond to breakdowns and adjust operational parameters when needed, helping with diagnosing faults and breakdown problems. They will implement adjustments and ensure equipment is working correctly, supporting emergencies, unplanned problems, and repairs. Continuous review of operational procedures is essential, ensuring all of them are updated and approved by QA and R&D, and that the technical documentation system reflects the current operating conditions. The role also includes ensuring the operator training system is active and updated, training production operators to increase staff capability, and implementing operational validation systems to ensure operators are following them. Collaboration with local and regional QA and R&D functions is necessary to ensure procedures, documentation, and standards are correctly applied and documented, following up on any deviations and leading the definition of action plans to remediate them. The Chemical Process Engineer will cooperate with Cell HPS & Reliability Engineers to develop standards and improve the effectiveness of activities, ensuring the plant meets regulatory requirements for the process and that projects are completed on time. Evaluating the safety and environmental impact of processes and assessing risks to employees and the community is also a critical part of this role.