DESCRIPTION
Position: Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Location: United States, , Houston
Salary: $85,000 - $95,000 / Annual
Status: Full Time, Permanent
Category: Manufacturing and Production
POSITIONS SUMMARY:
The Senior Manufacturing Engineer will:
- Evaluate processes and to configure manufacturing systems to reduce cost
- Improve sustainability
- Develop best practices within the production process with focus on maintaining reliable and safe manufacturing systems and manage capital equipment projects (utilizing internal and external resources)
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Importance of safety in manufacturing.
- Minimizing environmental impacts in the processing of plastic. minimize wastes and spills when designing equipment.
- all aspects of process engineering for new and existing products from feasibility testing to process automation.
- Developing chain of tasks for process, establishing method of production & process directives, resolving problems/bottlenecks. Providing analysis of data and generating required compliance documentation.
- Discovering, investigating and integrating new technologies in the processing area.
- Process engineering calculations – material and energy balances, strength of material, etc.
- Implementing statistical tools for process control & designing DOE (Design of Experiments).
- Preparing Process Flow Diagrams (PFD), Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) etc.
- Optimizes Production Rate and Quality and Safety by eliminating bottlenecks in the grinding and extrusion process.
- Evaluates efficiency and capacity and safety of process equipment of extrusion and size reduction systems to identify limitations and bottlenecks.
- Minimize reliance on operator human skill and experience.
- Reviews processing performance with plant management team daily. Make recommendations to production department.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Relevant experience in Mechanical or Chemical Engineer with Automation background.
- Bachelor’s degree in Control Engineering is preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in equipment troubleshooting, process optimization and production controls such as SPC and DCS.
- 5 + years of strong knowledge and experience working in plastic manufacturing, extrusion, equipment design, process development and polymer science.
- Relevant mechanical experience in an industrial set