Tremco - Cleveland, OH
posted 4 months ago
The Process Engineer provides essential engineering support to the assigned program and/or area, ensuring that products are processed in accordance with customer and division quality requirements while maintaining production flow. This role is charged with developing and maintaining systems to assure that all products manufactured by the plant meet customer specifications and achieve superior reliability levels. As the resident expert regarding process technology, the Process Engineer is responsible for investigating and implementing new process technologies at the plant. This position also involves maintaining, upgrading, and optimizing the plant's operations. The Process Engineer plays a significant role in influencing the development of preventative maintenance programs at the facility and will assist in work area design, plant layout, visual control, metric implementation, material flow, process tracking, and communication. Essential duties include analyzing statistical data and product specifications to determine standards and establish quality and reliability objectives for the finished product. The engineer will participate in plant metric reporting and coordinate quality control objectives and activities as detailed in the facility site plan to resolve any production problems that may occur, maximize product consistency, and minimize costs. Additionally, the Process Engineer is responsible for preparing estimates of production costs and production progress reports for management, designing measurement and control systems for chemical plants based on data collected in laboratory experiments and pilot plant operations, and using SAP to monitor production and business functions. The engineer must provide expertise for all operations in the plant, recommend modifications to current processes and equipment, and document and follow up with process engineers responsible for these modifications. This role also involves working with plant engineers and maintenance to influence the direction of preventative maintenance best practices, supporting a high-performance results-oriented culture, and maintaining high standards of safety and compliance. The Process Engineer will deliver disciplined project management and product development assistance, regularly review batch first pass yield, felt production quality, distressed, obsolete, scrap, and returned material, troubleshoot batch and raw material issues, and assist in identifying capital requirements for the facilities' annual capital plans and budgets. Furthermore, the engineer will help investigate equipment failures, difficulties, and deficiencies, interface with leadership, operators, and maintenance to ensure continuous improvement and production, develop and streamline critical metrics, and assist in the development of site metrics and KPIs. All duties must be performed in accordance with Tremco safety policies and procedures, and other duties may be assigned as necessary.