Process Engineer – Paints & Coatings Optimization

Jotun Dekorativ Marketing; Flixborough; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

25 annual leave days plus bank holidys

Employee Health Plan

Employee Assistant Programme

A supportive and inclusive company...

Team buildings and social activities

Job summary

Jotun Paints (Europe) Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled Process Engineer to create and maintain optimised production processes and formulations, ensuring Right First Time and stable throughput. You will coach operators and work with R&D to drive process improvements.

Applicants should have a chemical/process engineering background, experience in batch manufacturing, and knowledge of quality systems.

Qualifications

• Degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or related field.
• Manufacturing experience in paints, coatings, chemicals, adhesives, inks, or similar process industries.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and ISO 9001 knowledge desirable.

Responsibilities

• Make formulations available for products with specific and optimized process parameters.
• Update and change formulations as required by Group R&D Support and coach production operators with process optimisation on a daily basis.
• Optimize recipes to maintain competitiveness in the local market within the framework set by regional and global R&D.
• Give technical support and cooperate closely with maintenance.
• Follow-up process and quality deviations.
• Investigate product complaints.
• Describe the local production process for sustainable training of operators.
• Give training to relevant personnel.
• Evaluate the need for improvements.
• Provide compliance documents in accordance with various standards and directives like IOS MAT, REACH, ROHS, food contact, etc.

Skills

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Process optimisation

Continuous improvement

Data analysis

Batch manufacturing

Quality systems

Cross-functional

Education

Chemical/Process Eng degree

Job description

Jotun Paints (Europe) Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled Process Engineer to create and maintain optimised production processes and formulations, ensuring Right First Time and stable throughput. You will coach operators and work with R&D to drive process improvements.

Applicants should have a chemical/process engineering background, experience in batch manufacturing, and knowledge of quality systems.