Circular Plastics Processing Engineer

Eastman; Kingsport (TN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Health Savings Account

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Mentorship programs

Job summary

Eastman, a global specialty materials company headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, is seeking a development engineer for the Mixed Plastics Processing (MPP) Development group. This role owns process development for MPP, qualifying new feedstocks and technologies, and supporting process growth with manufacturing to ensure safe handling and efficient processing into the Methanolysis process.

Responsibilities include coordinating trials with manufacturing, guiding sourcing and external partners,

Qualifications

• Mechanical Engineering degree highly preferred; other engineer degrees will be considered.
• 1+ years of direct manufacturing support preferred
• 2+ years of experience required
• Ability to make decisions with limited information
• Demonstrated project management skills
• High level of adaptability
• Comfortable with giving external presentations
• Ability to engage with external parties, suppliers, customers, etc.
• Must be a self-starter with a focus on results. Ability to lead and drive challenging projects forward despite uncertainties
• Confident in working within a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders
• Comfortable challenging peers and supervision to develop creative solutions
• Excellent written, listening, and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Qualification of feedstocks through 3rd party processing and through Eastman equipment
• Close partnership with manufacturing on qualification trials and training of operations personnel on new or existing best practices
• Partnering with internal stakeholders to drive improvement or technology demonstration projects
• Point of contact for sourcing to partner with on questions from suppliers
• Ownership and management of experiments and trials on manufacturing assets
• Work with feedstock technical leaders to understand and implement new screening protocols
• Identify opportunities and improve processes to enable robustness of Eastman assets and any pre‑processing operations
• Justifying, scoping, project management, and execution management for Capital Projects
• Awareness of external technologies and capabilities to enable broader feedstock portfolio
• Manage trials of new technologies at 3rd party facilities

Skills

Manufacturing support

Project management

External collaboration

Process development

Education

Mechanical Engineering degree

Job description

Eastman, a global specialty materials company headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, is seeking a development engineer for the Mixed Plastics Processing (MPP) Development group. This role owns process development for MPP, qualifying new feedstocks and technologies, and supporting process growth with manufacturing to ensure safe handling and efficient processing into the Methanolysis process.

Responsibilities include coordinating trials with manufacturing, guiding sourcing and external partners,