Process Engineer

Job Posting Start Date 11-26-2024 Job Posting End Date 03-31-2025

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Process Engineer  located in West Columbia, SC..

Reporting to the Senior Operations Manager, the Process Engineer is in charge for process-engineering capabilities focused on cost, quality and delivery improvements in order to hold up a manufacturing organization.

What a typical day looks like:

• Recognize the manufacturing process, technologies, techniques and the product
• Define, implement and evaluate proposed designs and processes for manufacturability.
• Have the capability to singly or with other engineering stakeholders identify root causes of failures in the manufacturing process
• High level participation in daily production activities and effective problem solving on daily issues
• Prepare justification, purchase and implement capital equipment for production.
• Hold up and oversee new process equipment production.
• Hold up the raising and introduction of engineering change orders (ECOs).
• Establish robust, repeatable and reproducible process parameters
• Develop, implement and take ownership of process control methodologies.
• Trouble shoot process related issues.
• Participate in activities pertaining to cycle time and process improvements.
• Evaluate and select various engineered materials.
• Implement statistical process research on new and existing products.
• Implement safety, productivity and give in improvements.
• Improve manufacturing techniques and through put.
• Provide continuous development of manufacturing techniques that will improve in-house capabilities and gives in.
• Develop and maintain process documentation.
• Review processing methods.
• Interface with production of all activities associated with new process implementation and transfer.
• Assist in the development of training and provide training to production personnel during new technology transfer.
• Provide equipment maintenance and repair hold up as required.
• Guide cost improvement/reduction programs.
• May assist directly and/or indirectly with assigning, leading, guiding, supervising and/or directing process engineering tasks and activities for technicians.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 6 years of experience in engineering in the high technology electronics industry or related area.
• Experience with programming, maintenance and tooling of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and other automated manufacturing equipment.
• Experience with Operational Process Engineering KPIs including yield, reduction of downtime, MTBR, MTBF, process optimization etc.
• Experience interfacing with external and internal stakeholders and customers.
• Demonstrates advanced operations, technical and people and/or process skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Matching 401K
• PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts at local retailers

Job Category

Production Engineering

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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