Senior Process Engineer

DESCRIPTION

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.

Chili, NY

An Engineering position reporting to the Plant Manager. Primary responsibilities are monitoring and measuring process and product performance, establishing and implementing recommendations for improvements to both product and process, and ensuring optimal production of the various products produced by American Packaging.

include the following:

• Participate in training, embrace concepts of and actively practice the SPOT Safety Program fundamentals to aid American Packaging Corporation’s efforts to achieve a zero-accident rate.
• Analyze processes and products using statistical techniques to identify improvement opportunities, and measure process/product performance to ensure continual improvement.
• Participate in the gathering of 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 manufacturing, scheduling, sales, graphics, and suppliers.
• 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.
• Lead Process Engineer meetings, schedule meetings, take notes for actions, and follow up with other Engineers to ensure on track before next meeting.
• Train new Engineers and provide additional training to existing Engineers.
• Travel to other CoEs to provide support and accountability as needed. Provide feedback to management on employee performance and actions to improve.
• Manage interns and summer help, take on the intern responsibility and ensure projects are completed and contribute to company goals.
• Establish department goals, maintain Process Engineer Gemba board, and meet with management on regular basis to review and discuss next steps. Responsibility to ensure projects are being completed and meet our company goals.
• Corporate projects/goals, work with all COE’s and Corporate Engineering teams to work on company-wide goals and projects.
• Travel as needed to suppliers and/or customers.
• RCCA of both Customer and Internal quality findings
• Ability to work with and communicate with all levels of the organization is required. This will range from hourly up to and including the operations manager.
• Work schedule must be flexible to allow for attendance at trials/production during nights and/or weekends if necessary.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor's degree (B.

A.) from four-year college or university; and 6-8 years…