The Production Engineer will be responsible for:
- Plant Process/ Production troubleshooting
- Production Utilization and Process Efficiency
- Continuous Improvement
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide day-to-day technical and engineering support to the operating areas
- Strong knowledge of process technology
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting of production issues related to equipment, processes, quality, controls, and systems
- Ownership of all aspects of the assigned production units (VMC, Yields, OEE, and HSE)
- Initiate and complete process changes as well as support others with fact preparation in MOC process
- Provides plant expertise during process related troubleshooting, in Hazard studies, in choice of technical solutions and establishing optimized operating windows.
- Provide support to the HSE&S Manager in process safety and environmental occurrences.
- Reaches out for advice to other process engineers within the direct network, external expertise or to the global technology group for complex process related issues
- Assist in training of operations on equipment and new technologies
- Monitor and assess AUM/PEM data and create reports (e.g.Pareto) that identify improvement opportunities within production.
- Ensures measuring systems and calculation conventions are in place to generate production loss data, that the data is complete and of good quality.
- Assess variations in production and propose focus areas for variable cost drivers in AUM/PEM process.
- Develops plans to improve plant performance through focused improvement activities (in conjunction with plant management team) along with capital projects.
- For capital projects, perform initial projects scoping and business case development. Act as project lead or hand over to a project group for execution
- Work with Global technology group, R&D, and the plant for the process development/changes ensuring that changes on site are controlled and managed
- Drive Overall Equipment Effectiveness by elimination of technology and material losses
- Support Production manager in establishment of MAC’s, BOM’s as well as establishment in primary and secondary drivers in PEM
- Support/challenge Production Manager in monthly loss evaluations and selection of improvement topics
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Chemical Engineering
- 2-4 years of experience within a production or process engineer role from the chemical industry preferred
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Strong knowledge in Process Technologies, Process Safety and Risk Management
- Brown Belt certification an asset
