Sr Process Engineer

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At Lubrizol, we’re bringing to life the chemistry behind clean water, efficient transportation, reliable infrastructure, critical medicines, and the products people rely on every day through science, sustainability, and a culture of inclusion.

As part of our global team, you’ll be empowered to make a real impact - on your career, your community, and the world around you.

Job Type: Full
-Time / On-Site

Location: Gastonia, NC

How You’ll Make an Impact

As a Process Engineer you will identify, evaluate, and implement process, technology, reliability, and continuous-improvement opportunities for the site. The role provides day-to-day process engineering support, leads data-driven gap closure, supports product and process scale-up, and serves as the manufacturing technical representative through project definition, design, commissioning, and start-up. The position works closely with Operations, Maintenance and Reliability, HSES, Quality, R&D, Product Safety, project engineering, and technology experts to ensure safe, robust, standardized, and capable manufacturing processes.

The position reports directly to the Process Improve Manager.

• Monitor process capability, product performance, batch history, production losses, cost variances, and recurring failures to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities.
• Provide process troubleshooting and technical direction to Operations, including support outside normal business hours when required.
• Recommend and implement procedural changes, equipment modifications, process-control improvements, or recipe adjustments to reduce variability and improve Safety, Environmental, Quality, Delivery, and Cost performance.
• Maintain and standardize manufacturing, operating, and cleaning instructions; train and coach process operators on technical and process changes.
• Partner with Maintenance and Reliability to improve equipment performance, operability, and reliability.
• Lead continuous-improvement activities, opportunity evaluation, gap closure, internal benchmarking, and project scope definition.
• Analyze plant and business data to maintain a prioritized improvement opportunity list aligned with site and business objectives.
• Identify and apply Most Effective Technology and relevant internal or external practices that create measurable value.
• Support development and execution of multi-year process and technology plans for the assigned plant, unit, or technology area.
• Use statistical process control, designed experiments, and other analytical methods to improve process capability and sustain results.

• Serve as the manufacturing technical representative through Front-End Loading, design, commissioning, start-up, and post-start-up stabilization as assigned.
• Develop project scopes and gap-closure plans with Operations, HSES, Quality, technology experts, and Maintenance and Reliability.
• Integrate operability, process safety, reliability, and technology requirements into project definition and design.
• Provide technical justification and start-up support for capital projects and coordinate effectively between project teams and plant Operations.
• Maintain accountability for the technical integrity and operability of supported processes and units.
• Serve as the liaison between Manufacturing and R&D for new products, raw materials, process changes, and technology transfer.
• Plan and support laboratory, pilot-plant, toll-manufacturing, and commercial-scale trials; analyze data and communicate conclusions and recommendations.
• Lead or coordinate new product trials, process scale-up, product realization, and process-capability improvement activities.
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