Process Engineer
At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row.
It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future.
LOCATION: DeForest, WI
SUMMARY: Primary responsibility is monitoring and measuring process and product performance, establishing and implementing recommendations for improvements to both product and process, and ensure optimal production of the various products produced by American Packaging.
- Analyze processes and products using statistical techniques to identify improvement opportunities and measure process/product performance to ensure continual improvement.
- Participate in gathering the information needed to establish process conditions for new and developing products and processes. This involves observing trials/developmental orders and production runs, and communicating with the manufacturing, scheduling, sales, graphics, and supplier team members.
- Ownership of CI projects as assigned. Lead projects, provide data and set up projects to achieve CI goals.
- Organize and lead process and product improvement teams/initiatives, using established project management techniques, to improve product quality and process performance and lead the implementation of those improvements.
- Ensure that manufacturing specifications are known, understood, and communicated.
- Provide engineering expertise as needed.
- Analyze production and test data to establish consistent production results.
- Utilize data to recommend design changes to correct/resolve problems and contribute to the optimization of products to the required technological specifications or end uses.
- Ability to work and communicate with all levels of the organization as required, ranging from hourly production employee up to and including the Operations Director.
- Work schedule must be flexible to allow for attendance at trials/production during nights and/or weekends if necessary.
- RCCA of both Customer and Internal quality findings.
- Travel as needed to suppliers and/or customers.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Associate’s degree (A.
A.) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; with two years related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Packaging converting experience is highly desirable. Knowledge of testing performed in a converting operation and knowledge of statistics and the ability to apply and interpret statistics to a manufacturing situation is desired. Project management experience is preferred.
Language
Skills:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
Mathematical
Skills:
Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Understand and apply statistical techniques for process improvement. Ability to apply mathematical operations to tasks such as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of…
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