Hood Packaging Corporation has a rich history in North America as a leader in the packaging industry. From day one, our company has been at the forefront in the design and manufacture of a wide range of packaging materials. Our goal at Hood Packaging is to provide a product that is manufactured in a safety conscious environment with attention to high quality, timeliness, and that consistently exceeds customer expectations. We are able to meet our goal every day because we employ some of the best packaging people in the industry. We couldn't succeed without our dedicated employees. If you are looking for more than just a job and you want a career. Consider Hood Packaging Corporation.
Salary range: 70,000 - 85,000
Hood Packaging is currently seeking a Process Engineer in our Arden Hills facility.
The ideal candidate will possess
- Engineering Degree and 3-5 year's experience in a manufacturing environment
- Understanding of flexible packaging
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
- An understanding of quality management systems and tools, including SPC, Pareto charts, Histograms, brainstorming, and Six Sigma concepts and applications.
Functional Responsibility
- Identifies, develops, and manages process improvement projects specifically aimed at improving operational efficiencies (waste, productivity, costs). This includes the ongoing development and training of required methods and procedures in extrusion operations.
- Trouble Shoots daily production and process problems, communicates with Plant Manager, Production Manager, Maintenance supervisor and Production Supervisors and Operators regarding run problems, investigates root causes and recommends and implements corrective actions.
- Works in conjunction with manufacturing and maintenance personnel to ensure consistent operation of equipment to prescribed conditions, once developed. Identifies any/all the following: set-up and run parameters; maintenance intervals; and/or material specifications.
- Develops supporting set up, run, and change over documentation and facilitates all training.
- Writes, performs, analyzes, and reports on validations to support process standardization.
- Develops project justifications, ROI analysis and proper project/capital requests consistent with company policy.
- Observe the trial/developmental/production orders as they are run, including troubleshooting issues
Hood Packaging offers excellent benefits including medical, dental, life insurance, 401K retirement, paid vacations and holidays.
EOE/M/F
Skills Required
- Engineering degree and 3-5 years' experience in a manufacturing environment
- Understanding of flexible packaging
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
- Understanding of quality management systems and tools including SPC, Pareto charts, histograms, brainstorming, and Six Sigma concepts
What We Do
Hood Packaging is a quality manufacturer of packaging materials with 23 production facilities located in the United States and Canada. We have grown by acquisition and innovation. Our oldest, continuously running business, started over 100 years ago in the Jute and Cotton trade and we have expanded our flexible packaging skills into Paper, Plastic, and Woven packaging substrates as more advanced technology has developed for these products. A brief history to our growth: + TC Transcontintental (Multiwall Operations) acquired in 2020 + Bemis Corporation (Multiwall Operations) acquired in 2014 + Glopak Inc. acquired in 2006 + Bonar Packaging acquired in 2000 + Charleston Packaging acquired in 1986 + Southern Bag began in 1978 Each operation brings a particular skill, product, or other strength to our company – Liquid VFFS filling from Glopak and High Density printing are just a few of our innovative technologies. We are organized along two product types – Paper and Plastic. The Paper Division has 15 geographically diverse locations across the United States and Canada making flexible paper packaging structures with a very wide range of types, formats and closures. The Plastics Division has 8 production locations, again with the broadest possible selection of structures and many with unique applications. Cross selling our products allows us to develop unique product and supply arrangements. We plan to continue to innovate, to acquire and to develop strong industry relationships that will advance our technology, our skills and our products.
