Manufacturing Support: Ensure the safety and optimal performance by troubleshooting issues and providing daily technical assistance to maintain high-quality operations.
Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical support, championing safety, quality, environmental, and reliability metrics.
Process Innovation: Lead project management along with process improvement initiatives, including trials on raw materials, cost savings, yield, quality, and new product commercialization. Implement cost-saving ideas to optimize line performance.
Scale-up Excellence: Collaborate on growth projects, plan and execute development trials, collect data, and manage smooth transitions from pilot to full-scale production.
Capital Expertise: Drive capital projects by collaborating with operations, planning, and scheduling teams. Develop project designs, communicate scopes, and train operations teams to ensure successful implementation.
Develop and execute project scopes within a chemically inclined lab or plant environment.
Work with equipment vendors and operations to aide in selection
Perform data and statistical analysis to make sound processing decisions
Provide relief coverage for supervision in production units
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, or related field required.
6+ months experience in a research facility, industrial environment, or manufacturing process development required. 1+ years experience preferred.
Familiarity along with interest in problem solving with industrial plant environments and equipment.
Strong communication skills (written and verbal) required. Must be able to effectively communicate and interact with personnel throughout the organization.
Ability and willingness to collect field data, enter process equipment for inspections, and otherwise perform routine field engineering work in an operating chemical facility environment.
Collaboration: Ability to lead and work effectively in team projects.