Senior Process Engineer - Media Filtration

Our client designs and manufactures filtration media and engineered treatment systems for stormwater, industrial, and municipal water challenges, including hydrocarbons, sediment, bacteria, heavy metals, BOD, TSS, and PFAS.

We have been retained to find them a Senior Process Engineer who will be responsible for the manufacturing, quality, continuous improvement, and technical support of our client’s media and related treatment products — from the bench, to the production line, to the field. The Senior Process Engineer will oversee manufacturing operations, quality control, process improvements, inventory coordination, and performance validation for the media product line.

This is a hands‑on role for an engineer who specializes in water treatment and is equally comfortable at a lab bench and on the production floor.

The position is primarily responsible for ensuring their media is manufactured safely, consistently, and efficiently while maintaining the quality standards that support customer success and regulatory requirements.

• Support scale-up of media and products from lab quantities to full production.
• Diagnose and resolve production and field-performance issues at the root cause, and translate those findings into improved specifications, processes, and training.
• Work alongside production staff on the floor to implement and verify process and quality improvements.
• Manage daily manufacturing activities to ensure production schedules, quality standards, and customer delivery commitments are met.
• Coordinate production priorities with purchasing, inventory, logistics, and sales teams.
• Monitor manufacturing efficiency, material usage, throughput, waste generation, and process performance.
• Develop and maintain production SOPs, work instructions, batch records, and training materials.
• Support preventative maintenance programs and equipment troubleshooting to minimize downtime.

• Establish, document, and continuously improve the quality‑control standards and acceptance criteria for media.
• Set and maintain the standards for how media is loaded into vessels and filters, including packing density, distribution, flow, and pressure characteristics.
• Manage QC of media products coming off the production line, ensuring every batch meets specification before it ships.
• Use data to hold the standard: track quality trends, identify drift, and drive corrective action.
• Own and maintain manufacturing quality systems, procedures, and records.
• Approve batch production records and final product release prior to shipment.
• Lead investigations into non‑conforming materials, production deviations, field performance concerns, and customer complaints.
• Develop and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to prevent recurrence of quality issues.
• Establish and track key quality metrics, process controls, and production performance indicators.
• Support NSF, EPA, ISO, customer audits, and third‑party certification programs as required.

• Design, build, operate, and analyze small‑scale (bench and lab) pilot studies evaluating media performance across stormwater, industrial wastewater, and marine applications.
• Execute full‑scale pilot studies as directed, from experimental design through data collection and analysis.
• Develop repeatable test methods, SOPs, and acceptance criteria for incoming materials, in‑process checks, finished media, and field performance.
• Support process validation and production optimization testing to improve manufacturing consistency, product quality, and operational efficiency.

• Supervise production technicians and manufacturing personnel.
• Train employees on…