What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Engineer position at Sealed Air?
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Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance - a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.
The Process Engineer will design, modify, and oversee processes to guarantee maximum output with minimum defects in the production line. You will analyze every detail and step of the production process to cut costs, increase productivity and optimize the production line. This position would be assigned to work on the production floor to identify and improve throughput on the assembly lines, corrugated and woodshop. This position will support the Nashville site as well.
Major responsibilities for this position will focus on:
- Assess current equipment and processes and make recommendations for changes.
- Act as a change agent; champion continuous improvement efforts in a manner that achieves buy-in from employees and facilitates effective and lasting change to improve plant safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
- Use continuous improvement tools, including Lean thinking, to lead and implement process improvements that will reduce cycle time, process variation, defects, changeover time, lead time, etc.
- Plan, direct and coordinate manufacturing processes.
- Act as a liaison between design engineering and production; provide technical and support assistance to members of departments.
- Recommends methods for improving worker efficiency and reducing waste of materials and utilities, such as restructuring job duties, reorganizing workflow, relocation workstations and equipment, and purchase of equipment.
- Will perform administrative duties including but not limited to creation and management of purchase acquisition requests (PAR).
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial / Systems Engineering / Operations Research or related field.
- 5 years of process/design work experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with professional presentation and negotiation skills.
- Experience with varied manufacturing processes such as extrusion, printing, laminating, and converting.
- Knowledge of statistical techniques and tools, their use and interpretation
- Requires ability to manage a project and process involving multiple manufacturing areas.
- Has demonstrated ability to work independently and focus on critical project parameters that determine success of failure.
SAFETY REQUIREMENTS:
- Comply with all established facility safety rules and policies.
- Attend and participate in monthly safety meetings.
- Report unsafe conditions or injuries immediately.
- Works around rotating equipment, hot polymers, and high noise environments.
- Required to wear safety shoes as well as standard PPE.
- Exposed to various chemicals throughout the site.
Disclaimer: This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements, or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.
Requisition id:55180
Relocation:No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
*Please be cautious of fraudulent recruiting efforts using the Sealed Air name or logo. Sealed Air will never request private information during the application process, such as a Driver's License or Social Security Number. If you have any concerns about information received from SEE during the application process, please reach out to us directly at globalta@sealedair.com.
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WHY WORK AT SEALED AIR?
It is our responsibility to leverage what we have to affect positive and meaningful change for our communities and planet using Sealed Air's global resources and expertise.
Corporate sustainability - it's about improving the lives of people around the world by addressing pressing needs in the communities where we and our customers operate.
Customer Success - meeting our customers' needs. At Sealed Air it's more than a goal, it's an integral part of our business practices, our innovative solutions, and our values.
Leaving our communities better than we found them through dedication of time, talent and resources.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.