Process Engineer

Inspired to grow with your experience, learn and share with new colleagues?
 

Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.

We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.

Optimizes manufacturing processes, with a focus to support assigned production department (Cups, Covers, Bulkan or Litho/Flexo Services) to provide sustainable gains in cost effectiveness and product performance through daily production process interaction, capital projects, statistical analysis, designed experiments, and procedural changes. To be technical resource for Department Manager in assigned production department.

Essential Functions

• Maintains safety, product quality, and manufacturing effectiveness through daily troubleshooting and resolution of process difficulties.
• Works with internal/external customers to resolve technical/quality issues and provide special services.
• Participates in and/or leads multi-functional teams (Operators, Mechanics, Quality, Industrial Staff, R&D, Marketing, Vendor and Customer) to resolve problems and develop new products.
• Starts-up new products and equipment (supervises installation, troubleshoots initial production, ensures new processes and products meet requirements, documents, and transfers to Production). Responsible for startup of new products, production lines, and tooling.
• Manage capital projects, process improvements.  Support cost reduction activities through process improvement, process and tooling modifications, scrap reduction, and equipment changes.
• Incorporates Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing principles into projects and operations.  Support maintenance team through data analysis, problem solving, and equipment reliability projects using CI tools.
• Develops and implements system component measurements to ensure operational discipline, repeatability, and efficiency.
• Achieve plant safety goal through heightened awareness, safety audits and improvements in housekeeping Minimize loss of production due to injury, Lower insurance claims, lost time days.
• Maintain Food Safety Certification.
• Daily accountability to Operations and Maintenance issues. Reduced downtime due to process equipment failures and lack of operational discipline via cross-functional work team leadership.
• Applies sound engineering and utilizes PMO principles. Improve operational stability and efficiency with robust equipment set-up and design.  Improve project implementation and selection to resolve departments long term issues.
• Incorporate technological improvements to daily processes while supporting production and maintenance teams to develop and implement improvements to process parameters and standard operating procedures.

Job Qualifications Required

• Engineering Background: BS or BT in a Technical Degree Program

                                                      or

• A.A.S. in a Mechanical or Electrical Technology Program with five years of manufacturing or process engineering experience in a union environment.
• Working knowledge of OSHA and Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and organizational skills, ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Ability to use computer software systems including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project, Oracle.

Preferred

• B.S. or B.S.E.T. in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, engineering technology, or engineering science.
• Experience in the paper or fiberboard industry along with Lithography and Flexography printing experience is a plus.
• Working knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems (including hydraulics and pneumatics).
• Working knowledge EPA, Food Safety, and ISO compliance.
• Knowledge of team building and high-performance work systems.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement tools i.e., kaizen events, Gemba walks, multi vari charts, fishbone diagrams, factorial analysis.
• Prior experience with maintenance CMMS systems
• Experience leading and managing large scale capital equipment projects with budgetary oversight and control.
• Previous experience working in an Engineering Department as a Maintenance Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, or Process Engineer

Salary: $72-96K + DOE

Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.