Sr. Process Engineer in Terre Haute, Indiana at Fitesa Simpsonville Inc

Job Duties:

· Provide engineering and technical support for manufacturing non-woven products. (Elastic and film products)

· Participate in the areas of materials, process, project, equipment, and methods definition, development and optimization.

· Plan and conduct experimental evaluations to help with process optimization.

· Provide technical support to maintain, repair and/or replace equipment for our non-woven (elastic and film) lines as well as modify existing production equipment to improve both reliability and functionality.

· Support and help drive engineering activities for new products.

· Support new product trials while utilizing Lean Manufacturing methods to minimize waste and maximize efficiency.

· Execute the Statistical Process Control strategy and create by product

· Lead root cause analysis for inefficiencies.

· Conduct analysis for process improvements.

· Create documentation of process procedures.

· Support training procedures.

· Execute supplier and customer complain investigations.

· Design process parameters for new products.

· Elaborate reports for new developments, initiatives or issues.

· Execute the validation of machinery and computer systems, and Change Control for parts and centerlines.

· Manage the product structure inside the ERP (Build of Materials).

· Lead the Preventive Maintenance plans for Process Engineering approach.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in engineering (Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Environmental, Industrial or related) - Required

Applicants must have 5 years’ experience with

• Analyze problems, identify the root cause and figure out a solution
• LEAN manufacturing
• Waste reduction
• Supporting new product trials utilizing Lean Manufacturing methods to minimize waste and maximize efficiency.
• Data analysis capability.
• Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Executing the validation of machinery and computer systems, and Change Control for parts and centerlines.
• Mini Tab
• Managing the trials, creating detailed trial plans, follow up and analyzing the trial results.
• Design of Experiments and Statistical Analysis.
• Executing supplier and customer complaint investigations.

Applicants must have 3 years’ experience with

• Maintaining FMEA
• Troubleshooting Industrial Machinery for the nonwoven industry.
• Leading the product validation process and participating in the customer qualification process for the nonwoven industry.
• Engineering and technical support for manufacturing non-woven/Film and elastic products