Senior Process Engineer

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you'll find the packaging career you've been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC's longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We're constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a "Best of the Best" in the Best workplaces in the America's awards for 12 years in a row. It's how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future.

LOCATION: Chili, NY

SUMMARY: An Engineering position reporting to the Plant Manager. Primary responsibilities are monitoring and measuring process and product performance, establishing and implementing recommendations for improvements to both product and process, and ensuring optimal production of the various products produced by American Packaging.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

• Participate in training, embrace concepts of and actively practice the SPOT Safety Program fundamentals to aid American Packaging Corporation's efforts to achieve a zero-accident rate.
• Analyze processes and products using statistical techniques to identify improvement opportunities, and measure process/product performance to ensure continual improvement.
• Participate in the gathering of information needed to establish process conditions for new and developing products and processes. This involves observing trials/developmental orders and production runs, and communicating with manufacturing, scheduling, sales, graphics, and suppliers.
• Ownership of CI projects as assigned. Lead projects, provide data and set up projects to achieve CI goals.
• Organize and lead process and product improvement teams/initiatives using established project management techniques to improve product quality and process performance and lead the implementation of those improvements.
• Ensure that manufacturing specifications are known, understood, and communicated.
• Provide engineering expertise, as needed.
• Analyze production and test data to establish consistent production results.
• Utilize data to recommend design changes to correct/resolve problems and contribute to the optimization of products to the required technological specifications or end uses.
• Lead Process Engineer meetings, schedule meetings, take notes for actions, and follow up with other Engineers to ensure on track before next meeting.
• Train new Engineers and provide additional training to existing Engineers.
• Travel to other CoEs to provide support and accountability as needed. Provide feedback to management on employee performance and actions to improve.
• Manage interns and summer help, take on the intern responsibility and ensure projects are completed and contribute to company goals.
• Establish department goals, maintain Process Engineer Gemba board, and meet with management on regular basis to review and discuss next steps. Responsibility to ensure projects are being completed and meet our company goals.
• Corporate projects/goals, work with all COE's and Corporate Engineering teams to work on company-wide goals and projects.
• Travel as needed to suppliers and/or customers.
• RCCA of both Customer and Internal quality findings
• Ability to work with and communicate with all levels of the organization is required. This will range from hourly up to and including the operations manager.
• Work schedule must be flexible to allow for attendance at trials/production during nights and/or weekends if necessary.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; and 6-8 years of experience in flexible packaging, or a combination of education and experience. Packaging converting experience is highly desirable. Knowledge of testing performed in a converting operation and knowledge of statistics and the ability to apply and interpret statistics to a manufacturing situation is desired. Project management experience or education is preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Strong oral and written communication skills are required.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Understand and apply statistical techniques for process improvement. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.,) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and talk or hear. This position may require manual lifting not to exceed 50 lbs - reference your department-specific JHA (job hazard analysis) for departmental lifting restrictions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

American Packaging Corporation is committed to equal opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. American Packaging Corporation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. EOE/AA Disability/Veteran.

If you are interested in applying for an employment opportunity and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply for a posted position, please contact our Human Resources department at:

talentacquisition@americanpackaging.com.