Process Engineer

Description

Position at Sumitomo Electric Interconnect Products, Inc.

Who we are:

Sumitomo Electric Interconnect Products, Inc. We are a global leading manufacturer of heat shrink tubing. Our range of heat shrink tubing covers virtually every application required for today’s safety-critical designs in aerospace, military, transportation, commercial, industrial, and medical markets. At Sumitomo Electric Interconnect Products (SEIP), we’ve been producing superior quality heat shrink tubing products since 1996.

Job Summary

The Process Engineer is a member of the Manufacturing Department, Engineering team, which is tasked to drive safe, stable, and reliable production processes for current and new manufacturing systems/product lines. In this position you are instrumental in creating and maintaining process input and output specifications, working with controls automation of manufacturing processes, performing capacity analyses, troubleshooting, testing and supporting maintenance in machine troubleshooting and correction.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Problem Solving:
• Develop specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize and accomplish assigned work.
• Identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Investigate equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation, and to make recommendations to Engineering and Maintenance managers for countermeasures.
• Provide feedback to design engineers on equipment problems and needs.
• Analyze information and evaluate results to choose the best solution to solve problems and improve process controls.
• Interpret and explain complex information to others and how it can be used.
• Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports.
• Recommend design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions and/or improve machine performance and process productivity.
• Controls and Automation:
• Plan, design, install and maintain process controls for production machinery and equipment.
• Create and modify machine programs for all automated equipment.
• Conduct projects assigned by Engineering manager regarding automating production machinery and equipment.
• Study and analyze existing process/equipment operation for designated area(s).
• Design equipment, write programs and process controls, install and maintain controls that automate detection of out of specifications controls; provide the operator with feedback regarding operating conditions, verify that specifications were met for product produced.
• Integrate machinery, equipment, controls with data base to provide on-line history of operating conditions for analysis as to best operating conditions for process/product; traceability of processes and products.
• Assist in evolving Internet of Things utilization to streamline data collection and enhance updates to machine programs.

Minimum Qualifications And Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Must be proficient in creating and conducting presentations and business cases.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams.
• Strong organizational skills with a meticulous focus on accuracy and quality of work.
• Self-motivated, goal oriented with strong willingness to learn and solve complex problems.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and standards in the manufacturing industry.
• Must possess the ability to work under strict deadlines with varied and competing priorities.
• Must be trustworthy with company proprietary information.
• Must be willing to travel to Mexico and Japan.

Preferences

• Direct experience as a process engineer in the plastics industry
• Bilingual in English and Japanese with use of technical language
• Experience with Auto-CAD/Solid-Works
• Previous experience with ISO, IATF 16949 or other regulated Quality Systems
• Previous experience with…