What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Engineer position at The Edge Group?
Production Engineer
Houston, TX
Our client, a biotech company specializing in products for human and animal health, has an opportunity for a Production Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for evaluating current processes and optimizing the production capability and reliability to meet business needs as well as leading ongoing efforts to identify and implement process improvement opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor production processes and identify and resolve deficiencies.
- Monitor and trend direct production materials consumption and optimize usage and cost.
- Monitor and trend utilities consumption and lead initiatives to optimize usage.
- Provide day-to-day troubleshooting support to operations.
- Provide process documentation and operating instructions. Issue lessons-learned reporting to operations.
- Define and provide technical specifications for process, equipment, and new technology applications.
- Assist with the installation, start-up and validation of conformance to design specification for new technology, equipment and processes.
- Develop best practices, routines, and innovative solutions to improve production rates and quality of output.
- Establish business case, performs risk analysis, and develop detailed opportunities to meet business needs.
- Update and maintain relevant documentation for process trending, initiatives, and opportunities.
- Report on a regular basis all key information to the management team.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of equivalent experience.
- Proven manufacturing plant experience, preferably in nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, biotech, or food manufacturing.
- Experience with equipment reliability analysis and methods for improvement.
- Must understand industry regulatory compliance standards and their application to the manufacturing process.
- Knowledgeable of FDA requirements for the industry: HACCP and cGMP (Change control, CAPA, deviation, audit, validation)
- Process control & continuous improvement experience.
- Experience with Batch and continuous processing.
- Experience in applied process design engineering.
- Knowledge of interpreting laboratory analytical data related to process.
- Knowledge of AutoCAD, simulation software, programing software (ALLEN BRADLEY).
- Read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, P&ID’s, drawing/designs, and legal documents.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (leading root cause analysis).
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related Software.
- Experience with project management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
