Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer

Manufacturing Process Engineer

Looking for an engineering role where you can make a measurable impact from day one? Join Crane Currency as a Manufacturing Process Engineer in Nashua, New Hampshire, and help improve the processes, equipment, and products behind a world-class manufacturing operation.

Crane Currency is a premier industrial technology company and a pioneer in currency manufacturing and advanced micro-optics technology for securing physical products. Yes, chances are you have our product in your wallet right now! Our sophisticated equipment and software leverage proprietary core capabilities with detection and sensing technologies. Around the world, our customers trust us to anticipate their needs with innovative, reliable, and high-quality currency & authentication solutions and services—just as they have for generations.

How you will make an impact:

As a Manufacturing Process Engineer, you will help improve how our products are made by supporting continuous improvement projects and lean manufacturing initiatives. You will focus on maximizing yield, reducing equipment downtime, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and developing reliable production processes. You will provide hands-on process engineering support while working closely with R&D, Operations, Quality, EH&S, Security, Supply Chain, and Process Excellence. This role offers the opportunity to combine technical problem-solving, data analysis, and creativity to make a measurable impact on manufacturing performance.

Responsibilities include:

• Drive and help facilitate continuous improvement projects.
• Develop process operational standards, including statistical process control opportunities.
• Improve product quality by reducing process variability and downtime while increasing or maintaining production speed, capacity, and yield.
• Work with functional and cross-functional teams to improve manufacturing methods, resolve quality issues, identify trends, and take corrective action.
• Create standardized work instructions that support the production of high-quality products.
• Reduce product waste, improve the utilization of capital equipment, lower the cost of quality, and optimize productivity.
• Work with Operations, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, suppliers, R&D, and management to solve problems and anticipate changes in customer requirements.
• Work closely with operators to understand issues affecting product quality and equipment efficiency.

Knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering, a similar discipline, or commensurate experience.
• 3 – 5+ years of experience in process engineering or a similar function within printing, coating, web processing, or another manufacturing industry.
• Proficiency in data analysis, statistics, and applied mathematics.
• Demonstrated experience working on critical projects.
• Basic project management skills with success managing self-directed projects.
• Experience with Minitab statistical software, process mapping, and capability analysis.

Preferred:

• Experience with Six Sigma, Lean concepts, and 5S.

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