Process Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Reference State Ownership and Process Control

·    Serve as process owner for assigned manufacturing systems, with accountability for defining, documenting, and maintaining optimal machine and process reference states.

·   Establish critical settings, operating windows, control limits, and monitoring strategies required for stable operation.

·   Develop and implement proactive processes, standards, and checks to prevent drift, degradation, or uncontrolled variation.

·   Ensure reference states are clearly communicated, understood, and practically usable by operations and maintenance teams.

Variation Reduction and Performance Improvement

·    Continuously analyze process and equipment performance relative to reference conditions to identify leading indicators of instability.

·    Apply Six Sigma, statistical process control, AI-enabled analytics, and other advanced tools to reduce variation and improve predictability.

·    Lead structured root cause investigations using direct equipment observation, collaboration with operators and mechanics, and rigorous data analysis.

·      Design, execute, and validate structured trials to confirm causal relationships and sustainable improvements.

Reliability, Uptime, and KPI Accountability

·       Drive improvements in key manufacturing metrics, including but not limited to:

o        Uptime

o        Run Rate

o        Waste

o        Quality

·   Translate technical findings into measurable business impact and clearly communicate results to plant leadership.

Informal Leadership and Cross-Functional Engagement

·     Act as a technical leader who defines and promotes “what right looks like” for process stability and equipment care.

·    Influence operations, maintenance, and controls teams through clarity, credibility, and data—not positional authority.

·    Facilitate participation in improvement efforts by building shared understanding of standards, risks, and benefits.

·     Collaborate closely with production, maintenance, engineering, and contractors to ensure safe, effective, and sustainable execution.

·    Strong verbal and digital communication skills.

Project and Implementation Support

·      Scope improvement and capital projects, develop budgets, perform cost-benefit analyses, and request funding as required.

·     Specify instrumentation, controls, and data collection required to maintain reference states and detect early degradation.

·      Support installation, startup, commissioning, and optimization of process changes to ensure gains are achieved and sustained.

·      Participate in daily production meetings, weekly department meetings, monthly shift meetings, and required safety training.

·    Develop and maintain technical documentation, standards, trial records, and change histories to support long-term control and knowledge retention.