Process Engineer
Job Description
Job Title
Process Engineering
Base Salary Range
Industry Job Title
Process Engineer II
Department
Engineering / Operations
Minimum
$ 65,000
Classification
Exempt – Learned Professional
Midpoint
$ 77,500
Career Level
Professional
Maximum
$ 88,500
Grade
P3
Target Bonus
Location
Pomfret Center, CT or assigned Company location
Reports to
Engineering Manager or Delegate
Scope
Develops, controls, and improves manufacturing processes to achieve safe, capable, repeatable, and cost-effective production.
Position Summary / Essential Function
Process Engineer develops, controls, and improves manufacturing processes to achieve safe, capable, repeatable, and cost-effective production. The essential function is to apply engineering and statistical methods to define process requirements, diagnose variation, validate changes, and sustain measurable performance.
Key Responsibilities
Provide mechanical product design and detailing in support of department/ business objectives.
Utilize computer-aided design and drafting equipment.
Use knowledge of process, materials, and techniques to improve efficiency, safety, throughput, effectiveness, and costs.
Observes processes in operations environment to identify and eliminate possible failure modes.
It has active role in Failure Analysis procedure for evaluation of field failures.
Define and maintain process flows, parameters, control plans, work instructions, routings, and acceptance criteria.
Monitor capability, yield, scrap, rework, throughput, cycle time, downtime, and other critical process measures.
Use structured problem solving and statistical analysis to identify causes of variation and performance loss.
Plan and execute trials, validations, design of experiments, and process changes with documented risk review and results.
Partner with Operations to establish standard work, training, process discipline, and visual controls.
Work independently and within the Engineering Department while coordinating engineering activities with Sales, Planning, Quality, Production, and Supervisory personnel.
Support new products, equipment, materials, and supplier changes from feasibility through production readiness.
Lead or support PFMEA, control-plan, corrective-action, and continuous-improvement activities.
Ensure approved changes are reflected in ERP, specifications, drawings, and controlled documents.
Quantify expected and realized operational and financial benefits.
Perform other related duties consistent with the role, grade, and business needs.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, materials, or related engineering field. In lieu of a relevant Bachelor’s degree, 8 years of equivalent work experience.
In addition to a Bachelor’s degree, two or more years of process engineering or manufacturing engineering experience.
Working knowledge of statistical methods, process capability, root-cause analysis, and change control.
Ability to work regularly on the manufacturing floor.
Versatile and capable of handling multiple projects and priorities.
Key Competencies
Process control
Statistical problem solving
Experimentation
Standardization
Change management
Results orientation
Physical and Work Environment Requirements
The role operates in office and active manufacturing environments and may require frequent walking or standing on the production floor, observation of machinery and production activities, use of a computer and technical or measurement tools, and communication in areas where hearing protection or other personal protective equipment is required. The employee must comply with site safety rules and may occasionally need to bend, reach, climb stairs, or lift and carry work-related materials appropriate to the role. Reasonable accommodations will be considered in accordance with applicable law. This section identifies general requirements and must be validated for the assigned location and actual essential…