Plastics Engineer

Summary:

Provide technical engineering support to the molding and assembly areas. Project management, process development, process control, training staff, and troubleshooting of production processes.

Skills:

Provide technical engineering support to the molding and assembly areas. We look for you to focus on project management, process development, process control and discipline implementation, and troubleshooting of production processes.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• • Process development on new products as they move into production: successful completion of validation process.
  • Process troubleshooting on existing products.
  • Provide production departments with technical support to make continuous and step change improvements.
  • Use statistical methods for product and process analysis.
  • Utilize continuous improvements relative to HPWS pyramid sections for Process Discipline and Control.
  • Develop and implement cost reduction programs.
  • Project leader for process improvement initiatives.
  • Establish project goals and objectives.
  • Oversight to project spending.
  • Technical strategy implementation.

Required Skills:

• • • Knowledge of plastic molding technologies.
    • Experience within a manufacturing plant environment.
    • Familiarity with process data management applications/systems.
    • Ability to take routine data retrieval and analysis and develop a standard methodology.
    • Able to handle multiple complex tasks and set priorities with multiple internal customers.
    • Working knowledge of statistical software (Minitab) packages.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Plastics or Extrusion Engineering or similar degree program.