Process Engineer
Basic Scope/Purpose:
(The job’s primary purpose or contribution to the department or organization.) Endeavor to reduce process variation and improve process efficiency, create product drawings and provide information needed for quoting and manufacturing of new products. Leads process trials, process improvement initiatives, efforts to standardize tooling, run specifications, and procedures, and support efforts to improve production equipment.Principal Accountabilities: (The job’s essential or most important functions and responsibilities.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
- Improving process efficiency, increasing throughput, reducing scrap, and reducing product set-up time.
- Lead product and process development efforts by running trials and writing reports.
- Support the production staff with process troubleshooting.
- Collaborate effectively within a core engineering team, and across other functional areas.
- Implement programs for monitoring and maintaining the major process inputs including, but not limited to; machinery and tooling, raw materials, processing conditions, process specifications, line set-ups, etc.
- Lead continuous improvement projects and initiatives.
- Identify sources of process variability through DOE/6-Sigma and implement controls to minimize or eliminate variation.
- Actively manage run specifications to establish and ensure consistency and to optimize throughput.
- Support QA method development
- Suggest Changes to product geometry and product performance that may improve process efficiency
- Support product development by leading activities for trial runs of new products. This may include coordination with tooling engineering, production management, product engineering, etc.
- Support the production staff with process troubleshooting.
- Assist production operators when needed.
- Drive activity needed to manage the life-cycle of products
- Update and Analyze Bills of Materials and Product Routings
- Coordinate with other disciplines to collect and compile all drawings and information needed to fully release new parts to production.
- Manage the life-cycle of parts to production using the engineering control system.
- Support product management by providing information and data as needed.
- Support activities needed to qualify new materials, new suppliers, etc.
- Support Quality and Applications Engineering with incoming cases
- Promote Fenner Precision Polymers Values and Behaviors at all times.
Environmental, Health & Safety Accountabilities:
(The level of safety accountability needed to successfully accomplish the essential duties of this job.
- Learn and follow EHS policies, rules and work instructions
- Attend required EHS training
- Wear the required PPE at all times
- Take personal responsibility for keeping yourself and your co-workers and visitors free from injury by participating in and/or conducting risk assessments, work place inspections, corrective actions and safety observations
- Report incidents, near miss, unsafe conditions, unsafe acts and other hazards in the work place. STOP WORK when imminent danger is present
- Maintain work area in a neat and orderly fashion and keep equipment in proper working condition.
Education and/or Relative Experience: (The level of education and/or experience needed to successfully accomplish the essential duties of this job.)(Also show level of education needed for Career Progression)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Engineering or equivalent
- 1-3 years related engineering experience
- Education and/or training related to process and project engineering is required
- Familiar with Aerospace Manufacturing
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
(The licenses, certificates or registrations that are required to perform the essential duties of this job.)
- Must be willing to work towards a Six Sigma Green belt
- Must be familiar with LEAN tools and willing to work towards a certification
Notice to Staffing Agencies, Placement Services, and Professional Recruiters
Fenner Precision Polymers has an internal Staffing Department. Recruiters are hereby specifically directed NOT to contact Fenner employees directly in an attempt to present candidates.Fenner will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Fenner, including unsolicited resumes sent to an Fenner mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Fenner employees, or to Fenner’s resume database will be considered Fenner property.
Fenner will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Fenner will consider any candidate for whom a Recruiter has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Recruiter free of any charges or fees.
Fenner will not pay a fee to any Recruiter that does not have a signed Fenner contract in place specific to the position for which the resume was submitted.
Recruiting vendor agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by Fenner’s Vice President of Human Resources or his or her designee. No other Fenner employee is authorized to bind Fenner to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by Recruiters.By submitting a candidate to Fenner, recruiters agree to be bound and comply with this policy.
