Process Engineer

Alkegen; Holywell; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative leader in specialty materials is seeking a skilled engineer to drive continuous improvement and optimize production processes. This role involves analyzing data to enhance machine availability, training operators, and implementing corrective actions. Join a diverse and inclusive team dedicated to making a positive impact on the environment through advanced battery technologies and filtration media. Be part of a company that values innovation and growth, where your contributions will shape the future of manufacturing and sustainability.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in programming and designing control systems.
• Proven track record in continuous improvement within manufacturing.
• Familiarity with Six Sigma and Statistical Process Control.

Responsibilities

• Analyze downtime and develop improvement activities to enhance throughput.
• Provide training to production operators for process standardization.
• Optimize existing production equipment and improve overall quality.

Skills

Continuous Improvement

Data Analysis

Process Optimization

Statistical Techniques

PLC Programming

HMI Programming

Knowledge of Process Control Systems

Education

HNC in Engineering

Tools

Mitsubishi PLCs

Allen Bradley PLCs

Siemens PLCs

Beijer HMI

SQL

DCS

SCADA

Job description

Job Requirements

Why work for us?

Alkegen brings together two of the world's leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation and sealing materials. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we're delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.

With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry's most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.

Alkegen offers a range of dynamic career opportunities with globe-spanning reach. From production operators to engineers, technicians to specialists, sales to leadership, we're always looking for top talent ready to bring their best. Come grow with us!

Responsibilities:

1. Analysis of downtime, rate and yield leading to development of improvement activities to reduce downtime and increase throughput.
2. Interrogate historical data and provide trend analysis of production processes and failures.
3. Development of Key Action Plans to make permanent corrective actions.
4. Analysis of production issues using collected data and knowledge of the process to provide process solutions.
5. Work with production teams to understand constraints on performance and where possible develop improvement actions to increase OEE.
6. Provide training to production operators to improve understanding and standardisation of the process.
7. Understand and deploy continuous improvement and problem solving techniques to optimise machine availability and productivity.
8. Apply appropriate use of statistical techniques.
9. Be in charge of day-to-day process control, process safety and the installation of new procedures and equipment.
10. Standardise and improve current and future production processes.
11. Optimise existing production equipment.
12. Improve overall quality level.
13. Upscale and transfer new products/processes into production.
14. Be responsible for continuous improvement of process and procedures.
15. Development of control system solutions.
16. Technical Support.
17. Field Support and commissioning of control systems.
18. Control System design.

Qualifications/ Experience:

1. Time Served Engineer.
2. Five - seven years' experience involved in programming and designing processors and systems.
3. Proven track record of continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment.
4. Experience in the automotive industry.
5. Previous work experience in an organization that supplied large OEM's.
6. HNC in Engineering (Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Control Engineering, or Mechatronics) (Minimum).
7. PLC Programming of Mitsubishi (Q series), Alan Bradley and Siemens.
8. HMI Programming: Beijer, Alan Bradley.
9. Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Structured Query Language (SQL).
10. Knowledge of Process Control Systems, Automation and Instrumentation.
11. Data Analysis Familiarity with Statistical analysis and process optimisation tools (Six Sigma, Design of Experiment (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC).

If you are interested in being part of a world class Manufacturing function here at Alkegen then we would love to hear from you.

At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people - ALL PEOPLE - breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.

Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran's status, or any other protected class.