Injection Stretch Mold Process Engineer — Optimize & Lead

Amcor Flexibles, LLC; Reidsville (NC); Presencial; USD 115.000 - 128.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Medical, dental and vision plans

Paid time off

Company-paid holidays

Retirement savings plan with company 1

Tuition reimbursement

Resumo da vaga

Amcor is seeking a Process Engineer to manage all aspects of injection stretch blow mold samplings and qualification services for new and rebuilt molds. You will collaborate with plant technical roles to support startups, validation processing and tooling improvements, while recommending process optimizations and maintaining master process documentation.

The role requires strong technical/problem-solving skills, 5+ years in plastics processing, and travel up to 75%.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred or equivalent experience
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to understand, influence, drive and negotiate with internal and external customers.
• Strong management, communication and people skills required to influence and manage multiple resources, most of which do not report to the process engineer.
• Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Minimum of five years' processing experience in the plastics packaging industry desired
• Experience with SPC is beneficial

Responsabilidades

• Responsible for all aspects of mold samplings & qualification services on new, replacement or rebuilt tools.
• Optimize the molding process to obtain dimensional limits at the designed cycle time or less as identified with the approved process capability and validation.
• Create and maintain standardized Master Process Sheets for defined injection or blow molding process.
• Attend new project meetings, design reviews and tool specification meetings as required.
• Trains salary and hourly plant personnel in technical areas as directed by corporate and plant management, including machine processing and tool design change recommendations.
• Provide Manufacturing Support to assist in solving production issues related to machine, process, tooling/design or various combinations as required.
• Support plants with equipment, process, capability studies and tooling qualifications/validations as needed.
• Perform and establish the tools and equipment qualification approval at the vendor locations.
• Establish and maintain data resource information relative to packaging, machinery and processes.
• Facilitates, Documents and Communicates that share best practices throughout all manufacturing facilities.
• Design of Experiments (DOE's) and Research and Development (R&D) process capability studies to ensure compliance to standards and specifications and processes.
• Create and maintain the Master Process of Adjustments (POA's) for process and packaging lines baseline settings.
• Develop organizational technical capabilities in the organization by implementing technology platform training, building technical collaboration networks and mentoring technical team members.
• Maintain a current database of or customer's injection or blow mold tooling and process conditions.
• Creates and maintains the training program in the areas of machine operation, process control and machine troubleshooting standards.
• Works with and leads the corporate and plant quality teams to improve process operations and product development along with corporate R&D, Innovation and Commercial Team.
• Make recommendations for tooling and/or equipment upgrades or replacement based on collected data from engineering studies.
• Participate with Plant Operations teams to reduce scrap percentage rates and improve line efficiencies.
• Create and maintain division level technical specifications, standards and documentation for Operations Engineering department.
• Communicate with plants on a regular basis to understand long term project performance and support resolution of plant issues.
• Leads and preforms in house training on injection or blow mold tooling maintenance in alignment with the respective vendors. Training will include Safety, Operations, Process Control and Maintenance functions.
• Provide assessment of plant technical teams and identification of training or hands-on experience to help close gaps as required
• Act as technical liaison between Operations Engineering and Customer to determine the system requirements for all Amcor production lines.
• Consider whether new procedures must be developed. Identifies, defines and analyses alternate courses of action.
• Flexible work schedule 50% to 75% travel potentially required.

Conhecimentos

Process engineering

Mold tooling

DOE

Communication

Problem solving

Independent work

Formação

Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering

Ferramentas

SPC (statistical process control)

Descrição da vaga

Amcor is seeking a Process Engineer to manage all aspects of injection stretch blow mold samplings and qualification services for new and rebuilt molds. You will collaborate with plant technical roles to support startups, validation processing and tooling improvements, while recommending process optimizations and maintaining master process documentation.

The role requires strong technical/problem-solving skills, 5+ years in plastics processing, and travel up to 75%.