Production Engineer

Responsibilities

ELANTAS North America, Inc. is seeking a Production Engineer (Chemical). This role is based on-site in St. Louis, MO
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The position will be responsible for optimizing manufacturing processes, workflows, and equipment to improve quality, efficiency, capacity, and reduce costs. The position will be the liaison between production, R&D and quality and will report to the Operations Technical Manager.

• Support and foster a safe working environment for all employees. Participate as the technical lead for PHAs, LOPAs, MOCs, and other process safety activities.
• Process optimization – typically incremental improvements of existing equipment either setting standards and/or developing return to standard activities/instructions/changes.
• Production oversight (not manage the people) – monitor the chemical processes including raw material charges (product and quantity) and product made (material balance, product yield), batch size, cycle times, and down time.
• Technical troubleshooting – when deviations from standard are observed or reported, they lead the investigation to identify root cause, contributing cause, and corrective actions.

• Strong ability to effectively scope and manage projects and deadlines
• Requires strong process and procedure writing skills
• Communicates clearly, professionally, and respectfully at all levels (Read, write, speak English)
• Keeps stakeholders informed and proactively shares updates, risks, and solutions
• Listens actively and seeks to understand before responding
• Ability to work collaboratively with all relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Strong organizational and problem solving

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or similar
• 2-4+ years’ manufacturing production experience
• Manufacturing Production System experience (LEAN and 6 Sigma) a plus
• Experience leading and supporting manufacturing engineering projects focused on safety, quality, productivity, and cost improvement
• Experience troubleshooting manufacturing issues/implementing corrective and preventive actions
• Proven experience ensuring manufacturing processes and engineering practices comply with applicable industry standards and regulations