Process Engineer

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Full Time OR-13424 N Woodrush Way, Portland, OR, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $90,000.00 To $ Annually

About Kanto Corporation

Kanto is a leading U.S. manufacturer of high-purity specialty chemicals that power the world’s most advanced industries. With a legacy of precision, safety, and innovation, we support global leaders in semiconductor, technology, and chemical processing by delivering products that meet uncompromising standards of quality and reliability.

At Kanto, we believe our people are our greatest strength. We foster a culture where collaboration, continuous improvement, and excellence are not just values, but daily practices. Joining Kanto means contributing to work that shapes the future of technology and manufacturing—while growing your career in a dynamic, high-impact environment.

The Role at a Glance

Own the technical performance, reliability, and continuous evolution of Kanto’s manufacturing systems.

At Kanto, our manufacturing systems are becoming more complex as we grow—and we’re looking for a Process Engineer who can help ensure those systems remain safe, capable, reliable, and ready for what comes next.

This is a highly collaborative technical role for an engineer who enjoys being close to the operation: solving difficult problems, improving processes, managing technical risk, and bringing structure to how manufacturing systems evolve over time.

Kanto’s Process Engineers

As a Process Engineer, you will serve as a technical steward for assigned manufacturing processes and systems, helping ensure they consistently deliver against Kanto’s expectations for safety, quality, reliability, delivery, and cost.

You’ll work across Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Leadership to identify emerging risks, troubleshoot complex manufacturing challenges, evaluate process changes, and implement sustainable improvements.

This role goes beyond responding to problems. You’ll help strengthen the long‑term health of our manufacturing operation by establishing process standards, monitoring system performance, improving technical documentation, managing change, and turning lessons learned into better ways of working.

What You’ll Do

Own Process Performance & System Health

• Serve as the technical lead for assigned manufacturing processes and systems.
• Develop and maintain technical roadmaps and long‑term process improvement plans.
• Monitor process capability, equipment performance, trends, and system health indicators.
• Establish and maintain process standards, operating envelopes, and critical process parameters.
• Identify emerging technical risks before they become operational problems.
• Help ensure manufacturing systems remain capable of meeting safety, quality, delivery, reliability, and cost objectives.

Lead Technical Change

• Own the technical aspects of change control for assigned manufacturing systems and processes.
• Evaluate proposed changes for feasibility, technical risk, validation requirements, and operational impact.
• Coordinate technical reviews and approvals necessary to implement process changes.
• Ensure specifications, procedures, standards, drawings, and other technical documentation remain current and accurate.
• Support implementation, startup, validation, and stabilization following significant process or equipment changes.

Manage Technical Risk

• Identify and assess risks affecting manufacturing performance, reliability, safety, and product quality.
• Lead or facilitate structured risk assessments, including PFMEA and related methodologies.
• Develop mitigation strategies and monitor their…