Company Statement

Graham Packaging is a leading manufacturer of sustainable packaging. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life. They’re the kind of people you want as your friends and neighbors as well as your partners and suppliers. By building strong relationships and creating value for our customers, our employees embody the innovative spirit that’s inherent to Graham. We truly are people building a better tomorrow.

Overview

We're looking for a dynamic, solution-oriented individual to join our team as a Process Engineer III at our Maryland Heights, MO plastics manufacturing facility. This visible role will select and apply engineering techniques and procedures to improve efficiencies and reduce costs in order to optimize production. Will also work in concert with Process Technicians / Specialists, Corporate Engineering, R&D, and external resources toward plant objectives. This position delivers practical, hands-on training to associates in lean methods and tools to eliminate waste in all administrative, manufacturing, and support functions. In addition, this role will develop and execute strategies to use within our production system that improve overall business results. Successful candidates will have the overall responsibility for coordinating and leading team members to meet or exceed plant and company business objectives.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities/Principal Duties:

• Helps direct the efforts of process technicians through good managerial skills and establishes goals in order to produce positive results.
• Works closely with customers to define product requirements and translates them into controllable process parameters.
• Determines company’s process capabilities to consistently run to target and meet the customer’s product requirements.
• Defines and reports opportunities for process reliability improvement.
• Works closely with the Process Engineering Manager, Operations Manager, Maintenance Manager, and manufacturing teams to recommend and justify needed equipment upgrades or modifications.
• Procedures Reliability • Specification review procedures: Coordinates production card order instructions with Production Scheduler for new or existing products as a result of a new specification or change to existing specification. Monitors Schedule for reliability.
• Works with Operations Manager to train production team members in the following areas:
• Pareto analysis of downtime causes with the objective of improving equipment utilization.
• Process capability studies to optimize specific product processes by product and by line.
• Control chart maintenance and analysis to reduce key property variation through assignable cause identification and corrective action.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Supervision Received: limited supervision
• Supervision Given: May be assigned to oversee the work of some employees in the Process Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities may include interviewing, training employees; assigning and directing work; appraising performance; addressing complaints.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required (preferably Engineering or Engineering Technology) with 5 years of experience in a manufacturing operations environment leading or owning the manufacturing process.
• Previous supervision and project management experience preferred.
• Understanding of chemical properties within the plastic industry preferred.
• Prior experience utilizing Statistical Process Control Tools to control and monitor processes.
• Six Sigma belt preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in implementation of lean principles and improvements.
• Proven success working in collaborating to drive common solutions.
• Strong project leadership experience with a diversity of team skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and engage teams and individuals across multiple cultures, disciplines.
• Strong organization and time management skills.
• Strong problem solving skills; the ability to ask the right questions, help frame logical conclusions and arrive at effective solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication competencies.
• Physical/Cognitive Requirements: Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating, process, and procedure manuals. Ability to write technical reports and routine correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups. Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures associated with the process department.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Physical Demands: Requires prolonged sitting and frequent bending, stooping and stretching; manual dexterity; the ability to distinguish letters; occasional lifting and carrying of up to 50 pounds

EEO Disclaimer

Graham Packaging is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, religion, creed, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.