Senior Process Development Engineer
Waterville Plt 7 OH | Etowah TN
R26_0603
Full time
$115,300.00-$158,500.00 Annual

This is the base salary pay range that an applicant can expect to make upon hire. Pay within this range will vary based upon relevant experience, skills, and education among other factors. In addition, this position is eligible for an incentive bonus.

Johns Manville (JM), a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a global leader in insulation, commercial roofing, glass fibers, and nonwovens supporting industries such as aerospace, automotive, building products, filtration, transportation, and wind energy in over 80 countries.

Position Overview

The Sr. Process Development Engineer provides technical leadership to improve the equipment, systems, and technologies supporting fiberglass mat, furnace, and spunbond manufacturing. This role drives process efficiency, equipment reliability, product quality, and best-practice deployment across multiple JM sites (OH/TN/MS/SC).

Your Day to Day:

• Engineering & Technical Support
• Troubleshoot and optimize support equipment and utilities.
• Apply engineering fundamentals to improve process performance.
• Support FMEA, Preventive Maintenance (PM) optimization, and Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) improvement.
• Operational Excellence
• Lead productivity, cost-reduction, and process-improvement projects.
• Conduct structured RCA and implement corrective actions.
• Deploy best practices across facilities.
• Support KPI development tied to OPEX objectives.
• Project Leadership
• Manage full project lifecycle: scoping, execution, evaluation.
• Develop CapEx requests including ROI analysis.
• Ensure safe, on-time, on-budget project delivery.
• Coordinate with vendors, contractors, and cross-functional teams.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering; 5+ years in process-focused industrial manufacturing; 2+ years troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated history of productivity improvements resulting in quantifiable cost savings.
• Proficiency with CAD (AutoCAD, SolidWorks) and engineering drawings.
• Strong SPC and statistical analysis skills.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and cross-functionally.
• Comfortable in manufacturing environments; able to lift 50 lbs.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office; basic SAP experience.
• Travel common up to 50%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HVAC in forming rooms or industrial utilities.
• International experience; German or Slovak language skills.
• Experience with DOE, Lean, Six Sigma, RCA, 5 Whys, or Kepner-Tregoe.
• Proficiency in SolidWorks, Minitab, and data tools.
• Experience managing capital projects up to $1M.

Desired Technical Knowledge

• Fiberglass mat, furnace, chopping, or spunbond manufacturing.
• Batching, pneumatic conveying, conveyors, packaging systems.
• Combustion systems, industrial gas/oxygen trains, RTO fundamentals.
• Airflow/fan/blower systems; motors, drives, and powertrain basics.
• Reliability engineering, maintenance strategy, equipment lifecycle management.

*Willing to consider less experience, however would come in as a Process Engineer II, minimum requirement is Bachelor’s degree in engineering; 3 + years in process-focused industrial manufacturing; 2+ years troubleshooting. The pay range would then be, $94,100-$129,360.

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Please Keep in Mind

If you do not meet 100% of these requirements, we at JM still want to hear from you. So, if you are interested in the role, we encourage you to apply so we can learn how your skills and talents can contribute to our team.

Benefits

Johns Manville (JM) offers a wide range of benefits to employees. Some are subsidized by the company and others are fully employee-paid. Health benefits include a choice of comprehensive medical plans, a dental plan, vision plan, wellness program and critical illness insurance. JM sponsors a 401(k) plan which includes a sizeable company match. JM offers paid vacation and also provides paid sick and parental leave for eligible employees.

Additionally, Johns Manville provides basic life Insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an employee assistance program, and business travel accident coverage. Supplemental life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance are available as well. The company also offers a variety of tax saving accounts; health spending account, traditional flexible spending account, and a dependent care spending account. JM also offers a tuition reimbursement program for undergraduate and certain graduate programs.

Johns Manville supports employee growth with vast educational opportunities and a company-wide mentoring program. This program pairs employees and leaders to grow skills, build stronger internal networks and strengthen the company’s succession planning process. Johns Manville also offers soft and hard skills training facilitated by internal and external presenters. Our talent management team prioritizes the holistic growth of our workforce.

Diversity & Inclusion

Johns Manville believes diversity and inclusion in our workplace is critical for the long-term success of our company. We are committed to retaining, developing and attracting a diverse workforce that fosters an inclusive work environment in which all employees are treated with dignity and respect. This is the right thing to do for our employees, our company and our communities.

Incumbent must be physically able to perform essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

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