Process Engineer III

Imagine: A Career with Purpose and Possibility

Picture this: You are part of a global team of problem-solvers whose innovations in materials science can make life better. Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real-world challenges. You’re part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.

At TekniPlex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, TekniPlex Healthcare and TekniPlex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care.

Here, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact.

Because at TekniPlex, you don’t just deliver products – you help shape what’s next.

The compensation range for this position is $92k-$126k plus an annual target incentive bonus.

What is the role where you will make an impact?

Process Engineer:

In this role you will use engineering principles, team facilitation skills, and statistical process control tools to measure and improve key processes integral to the manufacturing of sealing gaskets, pressure sensitive and induction seal closure liners for packaging within the pharmaceutical, medical, food and specialty items industries.

Identifiy key processes and develops relevant metrics to ensure process variables are quantified and within control. Identifies and conducts projects and facilitates cross functional improvement teams to improve manufacturing efficiency and reduce variability. Additional responsibilities include management of plant compliance associated with and including but not limited to, Environmental, State, Local Regulatory Agencies

What will you do in this role?

• Promotes personal and product safety by:

• Is competent and supports the companies ISO standards for Product Safety 22000, Product Quality 15378 and HACCP.
• Reports any non conformances or Product Safety risks to immediate supervisor.
• Actively assesses activities on a constant basis to ensure no unsafe actions or results will occur.
• Stresses safe working practices as a condition of employment to associates.
• Assisting in audits of employee behaviors to ensure compliance with safety rules and guidelines, as well as housekeeping audits and surveys.
• Participating actively on the plant-wide safety team.
• Ensuring the housekeeping in the immediate and surrounding work area is maintained or improved to the highest level possible.
• Consistently wears personal protective equipment.

• Participates in safety based training provided by the company or recommended by the company.

• Ensures Quality of products and processes are maintained by:

• Is competent and supports the companies ISO standards for Product Quality 15378.

• Reports any non-conformances or high risk quality problems to immediate supervisor.
• Performing work at a level that ensures quality of this position’s work meets or exceeds internal and customer specifications.
• Identifying and correcting if possible any identified quality issues in the department.
• Participates in Quality based training provided by the company or recommended by the company.
• Implement lean manufacturing principles. Facilitates cross functional improvement teams with the objective of implementing lean manufacturing principles.    
• Identify, propose and execute projects to improve efficiency. Prepares proposals & reports and executes planned projects, including, determining time frames, funding, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of projects.
• Work directly with machine operators to identify needs and develop solutions; work with Maintenance on equipment modifications and preventative /predictive maintenance to ensure reliability.
• Identify, propose and execute projects to improve customer satisfaction, through performance and product reliability. Develops / improves product reliability, performance consistency and cost effectiveness.
• Provide manufacturing information to other departments, such as finance and human resources.
• Develop thorough knowledge of all manufacturing processes and equipment; monitor and assess all equipment performance; develop requirements and participate in CER development for new/modified equipment.
• Statistically evaluate process parameters; assess impacts of material changes to efficiency and process integrity. Reduce scrap levels and increase yields.
• Develop strategies for process improvement and evaluate impact of such changes; actively participate in all root cause analysis and process improvement efforts.
• Be the plant liaison for trials and participate in all associated meetings and activities to ensure success.
• Assist in the evaluation and modification of ERP system routers based on actual performance.
• Participate in customer complaint system with the goals of prevention of future occurrences and complaint avoidance.

Compliance:

• Confer with local regulatory agencies to discover and ensure compliance with local environmental quality standards, industrial practices, and new development in pollution abatement.
• Coordinate safety related activities at the facility to ensure compliance with Tekni-Plex requirement.
• Ensure plant complies with ISO standards and regulatory reporting requirements

What skills do you bring to the role?

• 3-5 years experience in plastic extrusion with proven ability to plan, coordinate, direct, execute and document activities related to the extrusion manufacturing process design and control.
• Candidate must have a strong materials (plastics) background and be proficient in tooling theory, tooling design and processing of such materials.
• Demonstrated capability to lead cross functional work teams in the implementation of process improvements that yield bottom line results.
• Experience in the implementation of statistical process control and/or lean manufacturing principles within a fast paced manufacturing environment.
• Engineering/Manufacturing Procedure writing and auditing experience
• Capable of learning and complying with cGMP and ISO Certifications. Prefer experience associated with manufacturing finished goods for food contact and/or pharmaceutical.
• Lean, Six Sigma, 8D, Zero Defect, Kaizen, Kan Ban, Single Minute Exchange Die [SMED] background
• High volume manufacturing experience.