What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Engineer position at The Lubrizol Corporation?
Job Location: Gastonia, NC
Job type: Full-Time
Type of role: On-Site
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team as a Process Engineer
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
As a Process Engineer you will directly impact our innovation of the Specialty Chemical Industry by delivering process excellence. This role will focus on the site’s ability to safely and reliably produce quality products within cost and delivery expectations while indentfying improvement opportunities. This will include capital projects, and support building/maintaining management systems such as PSM, RCA, JSA, Halal, RSPO, and cGMP. The position reports directly to the Improvement Process Leader.
What We're Looking For
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.
Job type: Full-Time
Type of role: On-Site
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team as a Process Engineer
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
As a Process Engineer you will directly impact our innovation of the Specialty Chemical Industry by delivering process excellence. This role will focus on the site’s ability to safely and reliably produce quality products within cost and delivery expectations while indentfying improvement opportunities. This will include capital projects, and support building/maintaining management systems such as PSM, RCA, JSA, Halal, RSPO, and cGMP. The position reports directly to the Improvement Process Leader.
What We're Looking For
- Overall efforts are directed towards reducing the variability of, standardizing, and improving production systems with a focus on Safety, Environmental, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
- Batch tracking to identify repeat failures and implement corrective and preventative actions.
- Monitor product performance and process capability on a periodic basis.
- Recommend procedural changes, equipment modifications or product recipe adjustments as needed.
- Maintain product manufacturing and cleaning instructions. Provide training for process operators.
- Provide process troubleshooting and technical directions – may involve interaction outside normal business hours.
- Provide Development and Manufacturing Support for capital projects
- Serve as the liaison between manufacturing and R&D during the development/scale-up of new products/processes. Coordinate manufacturing efforts during development.
- Use and maintain systems associated with ISO 9001, RC-14001, Halal, RSPO, Process Safety Management, etc.
- Ensure safe operations by observing all Health, Safety and Environmental (HS&E) procedures. Update and standardize process instructions in area.
- Ensure we adhere to various systems that involve improving and maintaining the area such as but not limited to MOC’s, PHA’s, PSSR’s, JSA’s and incident reporting.
- Understand the general concepts of ISO 9001, RC-14001, Halal, RSPO, Process Safety Management, etc.
- Interact daily with site personnel to successfully execute the operating plan.
- Enter production records into SAP and review any associated cost variances.
- Be the technical representative for customer and certification audits.
- Strong focus on Continuous Improvement with emphasis on the following principles: Learning Organization, Process Centered, Embracing the Total System, Respect for People, and Long-term Vision.
- Work with the maintenance department to improve equipment reliability.
- Work with the chemical operators to learn the processes, to understand how the processes are performed, and to generate ideas for improvement.
- Work with the project engineers to identify, provide justification and start-up support for capital projects.
- Monitor product quality and lead effort to continuously drive improvements in process capability.
- BS Chemical Engineering Degree
- 2 years of Chemical Manufacturing Experience
- Experience with Cross functional teams in new product development, technology transfer, process improvement and general operations.
- Experience with statistical process control and statistical techniques.
- Experience with DeltaV (plus).
- Familiarity with OSHA Process Safety Management(PSM)(plus).
- Familiarity with ISO 9001 and costmetic ingredient GMP(plus).
- Familiarity with SAP S4HANA(plus).
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.