Process Engineer - Curing

Process Engineer – Curing

Kumho Tire Georgia is a global tire manufacturer committed to quality, innovation, safety, and continuous improvement. At our manufacturing facility in Macon, Georgia, our teams use advanced manufacturing technology and engineering expertise to produce high-quality tires while continuously improving our processes, productivity, and product performance.

We are seeking a Process Engineer – Tire Curing & Finishing to support our Production Process Technology team. This position focuses on tire curing and finishing processes, manufacturing specifications, new product processability, quality improvement, process troubleshooting, and manufacturing standardization.

The Process Engineer supports the tire curing and finishing manufacturing processes by managing technical specifications, evaluating new products for mass-production readiness, troubleshooting production and quality issues, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.

This position works cross-functionally with Production, Quality, R&D, Engineering, and external partners to improve tire quality, manufacturing efficiency, process reliability, and productivity. The Process Engineer also maintains manufacturing standards, supports quality audits, analyzes tire defects and uniformity concerns, and identifies opportunities to improve tooling, molds, fixtures, equipment, and production processes.

Key responsibilities include managing manufacturing specifications for tire curing and finishing processes, conducting processability and manufacturing feasibility evaluations, coordinating and evaluating production trials for newly developed products, investigating production and field quality concerns using root cause analysis, data analysis, and structured problem-solving techniques, developing and implementing corrective actions to reduce tire defects, improving product quality, and preventing recurring manufacturing issues, troubleshooting curing and finishing process problems related to manufacturing specifications, equipment, materials, and production methods, performing periodic analysis of defective tires, production samples, and manufacturing data to identify trends and improvement opportunities, developing and executing continuous improvement and process optimization plans to improve quality, productivity, and manufacturing efficiency, identifying methods to improve tire repair processes, repair quality, and daily repair productivity, investigating repair methods for tires with uniformity and balance concerns, establishing, revising, distributing, and maintaining manufacturing process standards, specifications, and work instructions, supporting implementation and standardization of new manufacturing technologies and production processes, analyzing out-of-specification tire uniformity conditions and implementing appropriate corrective actions, conducting improvement testing for jigs, fixtures, molds, and containers and standardizing approved process improvements, monitoring mold and container conditions and maintaining repair and improvement histories, preparing and reviewing capital investment proposals related to manufacturing equipment, process capability, productivity, and product quality, providing technical support to suppliers and other external partners when required, supporting internal, customer, and external quality and manufacturing audits, including international certification and automotive customer audits, supporting national product certification requirements for export markets, including applicable CCC requirements, maintaining and periodically updating Control Plans, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), manufacturing standards, and revision histories, and documenting process engineering activities, technical findings, process changes, and improvement results and communicating updates to appropriate leadership.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline required, knowledge of mechanical and/or chemical engineering principles as applied to manufacturing processes, strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate manufacturing and quality data, demonstrated problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making abilities, ability to investigate production problems, identify root causes, and develop practical solutions, ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a manufacturing environment, and strong documentation and technical reporting skills.

Relevant skills and keywords include Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Tire Manufacturing, Tire Curing & Finishing, Manufacturing Process Improvement, Continuous Improvement, Root Cause Analysis, Corrective Action, Quality Improvement, Process Optimization, Production Engineering, Manufacturing Specifications, Process Standardization, Production Troubleshooting, Defect Analysis, Data Analysis, Tire Uniformity & Balance, New Product…