Process Engineer

CareerWise Recruitment; Munster; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

CareerWise Recruitment seeks a Process Engineer for a composite materials client in County Clare. The role focuses on owning and optimizing manufacturing processes to drive productivity and customer-focused outcomes.

You will partner with Operations, Quality and Product Development to deliver scale-up, continuous improvement and capable processes, with hybrid working options where appropriate.

Qualifications

• 5-9 years' experience in a process engineering role within manufacturing or chemical environments.
• Strong experience supporting operations-facing manufacturing processes.
• Proven track record of improving process capability, yield, and delivery performance.
• Experience investigating and resolving customer-impacting process issues.
• Strong root cause analysis and data-driven problem-solving skills.
• Engineering, science, or related third-level qualification.
• Comfortable working closely with operations and customer-facing teams.
• Practical, commercially aware engineering mindset

Responsibilities

• Act as process owner for assigned manufacturing processes and plant operations
• Drive improvements in process capability, yield, throughput, and consistency
• Ensure processes consistently meet customer specifications and performance requirements
• Provide hands-on technical support to operations, resolving process issues that impact delivery or product quality
• Lead root cause analysis of process-related customer complaints, deviations, and recurring losses
• Understand process risk management and the process based approach to quality and drive continuous improvement initiatives to ultimately improve productivity and customer outcomes
• Support change management (MOC) to ensure process changes do not negatively impact customers
• Partner closely with Quality on deviations, investigations, and customer-related CAPA
• Analyse process data and trends to proactively prevent customer- impacting issues
• Support scale-up, optimisation, and introduction of process changes aligned to customer & operational needs
• Support and coordinate the implementation of relevant capital investment programs.

Skills

Process ownership

Process optimization

Root cause analysis

Data-driven problem solving

Operations collaboration

Education

Engineering/Science degree

Job description

Process Engineer required by CareerWise Recruitment for our composite materials client in County Clare.

We are seeking a Process Engineer to drive process performance, productivity, and customer-facing outcomes within our manufacturing operation.

Responsibilities:

• Act as process owner for assigned manufacturing processes and plant operations
• Drive improvements in process capability, yield, throughput, and consistency
• Ensure processes consistently meet customer specifications and performance requirements
• Provide hands-on technical support to operations, resolving process issues that impact delivery or product quality
• Lead root cause analysis of process-related customer complaints, deviations, and recurring losses
• Understand process risk management and the process based approach to quality and drive continuous improvement initiatives to ultimately improve productivity and customer outcomes
• Support change management (MOC) to ensure process changes do not negatively impact customers
• Partner closely with Quality on deviations, investigations, and customer-related CAPA
• Analyse process data and trends to proactively prevent customer- impacting issues
• Support scale-up, optimisation, and introduction of process changes aligned to customer & operational needs
• Support and coordinate the implementation of relevant capital investment programs.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5-9 years' experience in a process engineering role within manufacturing or chemical environments
• Strong experience supporting operations-facing manufacturing processes
• Proven track record of improving process capability, yield, and delivery performance
• Experience investigating and resolving customer-impacting process issues
• Strong root cause analysis and data-driven problem-solving skills
• Engineering, science, or related third-level qualification
• Comfortable working closely with operations and customer-facing teams
• Practical, commercially aware engineering mindset What’s on Offer:
• Process Engineering role with ownership of process performance and customer outcomes
• Clear progression toward Senior Process Engineer roles within 12-24 months
• High visibility role with direct impact on customer satisfaction and site performance
• Strong collaboration with Quality, Manufacturing, and Product Development
• Ongoing technical and leadership development
• Hybrid working options where appropriate