Process Control Technician

Bakelite; Conway (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Bakelite is seeking a Process Control Technician to improve batch safety, efficiency and repeatability across resin manufacturing. You will own batch recipes from start to finish, troubleshoot batching software, and drive automation to reduce operator intervention.

Responsibilities include monitoring batch performance, auditing recipes, and collaborating with operations and maintenance to ensure robust, automated batch execution. Prior experience with resin processes is highly valued.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• 5–10 years of experience in chemical manufacturing.
• Must have kettle experience.
• Ability to positively influence personnel.
• Familiarity with Honeywell Experian/other control systems.
• Ability to communicate across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Oversee batch reactions, equipment, and safety aspects of the system.
• Program batching software and logic in Experion Batch and PLCs.
• Audit site recipes for safety and sequencing; validate processes.
• Mine data and trend historical batch performance for improvements.
• Collaborate with operations and maintenance; support batch sequencing in real time.
• Utilize MES, Excel, SAP and other tools to monitor and optimize batches.
• Potential for weekend or backshift monitoring due to batch schedules.
• Support new product placement and adjustments to recipes.

Skills

Process knowledge

Batching software

Experion Batch

PLC

Data mining

Excel

SAP

MES

Interpersonal skills

Team leadership

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Experion Batch

PLC

SAP

MES

Excel

Job description

Process Control Technician: The Impact You’ll Have On The Organization and World

• In this role you will focused on the safety, efficiency, and repeatability of our resin manufacturing to generate quality results.
• You will be responsible for the creation, monitoring, and improvement of the batch processes at the assigned facility.
• You will be the 1st call for plant batching or recipe issues while processing a batch.
• You will have stewardship of the batch recipe from Start to Finish and is constantly looking to improve the efficiency, repeatability, and automation of our batches to reduce operator intervention and errors.

It’s Better with Bakelite: Our Commitment Back to You

• You’ll Help Shape Our Future. As a Bakelite associate, you’re part of a diverse, global population creating the next generation of the company and we expect you to put your fingerprint on it.
• We Champion Our Associates. At Bakelite, you don’t just climb the career ladder – you pave your personal path through continued learning and development.
• Together, We Will Protect the Planet. From our processes to our products, we are focusing on the opportunities that both grow our profitability as a company, and improve and protect the planet.
• Safety is a Core Value. At Bakelite, safety is a 24/7 mindset. We are all safe today to ensure we are able to show up tomorrow – for our families and friends, for each other and for our communities.
• We Care. Plain and simple, we care about our associates. From the top on down, we place a high value on our culture and the associate experience. We offer competitive compensation, robust benefits and support our associates every step of their career.

Life in Conway

Located in the eastern part of the state, Conway is a small North Carolina town within 100 miles of Richmond, Norfolk-Virginia Beach and the Raleigh-Durham area.

• Our Conway team has strong ties to the local community. We recently sponsored the town’s annual charity golf tournament, and several of our associates are active in the volunteer Conway Fire Department, to which Bakelite donates essential emergency services equipment.

• A nearby attraction is the Roanoke River, which flows across North Carolina’s coastal plain and is home to lots of wildlife, including more than 200 species of birds. You can also explore the Roanoke Canal Museum and Trail, which highlights the historical significance the canal system played in westward expansion and trade.

• Learn more about Conway

What Does a Typical Day Look Like?

Here are your primary responsibilities:

• Strong process knowledge of the batch reactions, the equipment, and the safety aspects of the system.
• Become proficient in the ability to program the associated batching software Experion Batch, PLCetc.
• Ability to audit other sites recipes for logical and safety sequencing and look for possible issues as a validation process.
• Strong Data mining, historical trending capabilities to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong interpersonal skills to develop working relationships with both operations and Maintenance.
• Strong Computer skills with the ability to utilize software tools like MES, Excel, SAP, etc.
• Flexibility to monitor batch sequencing in real time which may require weekend or backshift monitoring.
• Strong Team Leader/Member – The Process Control Technician will be a key member of the site technical teams as well and facility siting for new products etc.
• The ideal Process Control Technician has hand on expertise in the manufacturing of various resin types or strong technical background in the science of resin manufacturing. Hands on experience of resin manufacturing is highly preferred.

New product development

• The Process Control Technician will work with R&D as the product formulation is developed and ensure that the proposed formulation, temperatures, cooks and controls are reasonable and aligned with the facilities capability. Items like vacuum pull down, exotherm rate, material addition timing or temperature expectations are examples.
• After the recipe sequence and critical parameters are established the Process Control Technician will develop and program the desired product recipe in the applicable DCS batching system. The recipe will be developed with appropriate instructional steps to aid the operations team to understand and follow the critical steps. The Process Control Technician will optimize the batching logic for a safe and efficient recipe flow.
• All work will be verified by a second qualified Process Control Technician to look for errors or efficiency opportunities.
• The Process Controls Technician will work with R&D to alter material addition times or temperatures, quantity etc. to ensure a safe manufacturing instruction is generated.
• The Process Control Technician will utilize their skills and process knowledge to establish recipes with minimal manual interactions, the goal is fully automated recipe execution.
• Key team member evaluating new product feasibility at a facility helping make value driven business decisions.

Existing products / Typical Day in the life:

• The Process Controls Technician is responsible to continually monitor batch performance against Rate Efficiency looking for opportunities to reduce batch times, reduce batch holds or unplanned manual interactions.
• Data monitoring of live and historical batch trends using the available monitoring tools.
• Review & troubleshoot any holds stops or Failures on PIs (Recipe).

What is Needed to be Successful in this Role (Required Skills/Abilities)

• High school diploma or GED.
• 5-10 Years of Experience of chemical manufacturing.
• The ability to positively influence personnel.
• A clear understanding of the intricacies of operating a chemical reactor.
• Computer literate with ability to understand the programming process within Honeywell Experian and/or other systems.
• Ability to effectively communicate up, down, and sideways in the organization.
• The ability and willingness to communicate the why’s behind the changes to the resin making process that are coming and hold firm to the strategy if/ when there are challenges countercurrent to our end goal.
• Dedicate to what we’re trying to accomplish to the point where extended hours at critical times will not be a problem.
• Must have kettle experience.