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Summary:

• Purpose: Selects and applies engineering techniques and procedures to improve efficiencies and reduce costs in order to optimize production.
• Dimensions: Works in concert with Process Technicians and Specialist, Corporate Engineering/R&D, and external resources toward plant objectives.

• Responsibilities/Principal Duties:

• Helps direct the efforts of process technicians through good managerial skills and establishes goals in order to produce positive results.
• Process Reliability
• Works closely with customers to define product requirements and translates them into controllable process parameters.
• Determines company’s process capabilities to consistently run to target and meet the customer’s product requirements.
• Defines and reports opportunities for process reliability improvement.
• Works closely with the Process Engineering Manager, Operations Manager, Maintenance Manager, and manufacturing teams to recommend and justify needed equipment upgrades or modifications.
• Procedures Reliability
• Specification review procedures:

1. Coordinates production card order instructions with Production Scheduler for new or existing products as a result of a new specification or change to existing specification.
2. Monitors Schedule for reliability.

• Works with Operations Manager to train production team members in the following areas:

1. Pareto analysis of downtime causes with the objective of improving equipment utilization.
2. Process capability studies to optimize specific product processes by product and by line.
3. Control chart maintenance and analysis to reduce key property variation through assignable cause identification and corrective action.

• Supervisory Responsibilities:

1. a) Supervision Received: limited supervision
2. Supervision Given: May be assigned to oversee the work of some employees in the Process Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.  Responsibilities may include interviewing, training employees; assigning and directing work; appraising performance; addressing complaints. 

1. Education: BS in engineering or equivalent
2. Experience: Previous supervision and project management experience preferred. Understanding of chemical properties within the plastic industry preferred.
3. Physical/Cognitive Requirements:

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating, process, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write technical reports and routine correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures associated with the process department.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.  Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands: Requires prolonged sitting and frequent bending, stooping and stretching; manual dexterity; the ability to distinguish letters; occasional lifting and carrying of up to 50 pounds.