Process Engineer

CareerWise Recruitment; Ennis (TX); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Leadership development

Job summary

CareerWise Recruitment is seeking a Process Engineer for our composite materials client in County Clare. The role concentrates on driving process performance, productivity, and customer outcomes within manufacturing operations.

You will own processes, lead root-cause analysis, and support scale-up and capital investments, collaborating with Quality, Manufacturing and Product Development to deliver measurable improvements and hybrid working options.

Qualifications

• 59 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 drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve productivity and customer outcomes
• Support change management (MOC) to ensure process changes do not negatively impact customers
• Partner 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 engineering experience

Manufacturing operations

Root cause analysis

Data-driven problem solving

Cross-functional 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

• 59 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 1224 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

Skills: Process Engineer TPBN1_IJ