Process Engineer I - Optimize Safety & Quality

PPG Industries; Louisiana (MO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

PPG Industries is seeking a Process Engineer to design, optimize, and sustain safe, compliant manufacturing processes across operations. This individual contributor role partners with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, EHS, and Engineering to meet current production needs while enabling future-state capability.

The role emphasizes hands-on troubleshooting, recipe and process control, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, quality, efficiency, and cost performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required.
• High school diploma with 10 years of manufacturing/production experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, optimize, and sustain manufacturing processes to improve safety, quality, efficiency, reliability, and cost performance.
• Provide hands-on process troubleshooting support for production supervisors and operations teams.
• Support implementation and sustainment of recipe control and process control strategies to ensure consistent and compliant operation.
• Develop, update, and maintain engineering standards, procedures, and process documentation.
• Ensure assigned processes, systems, and projects comply with Local, State, Federal, and corporate requirements.
• Participate in RCA, MOC, PHA, PSSR, and ACT activities, including documentation and action closure.
• Identify, assess, and help mitigate risks associated with manufacturing processes and process control systems.
• Support achievement of plant safety goals through improved process design, controls, interlocks, and alarms.
• Comply with Engineering JDI process and applicable governance requirements.
• Support development and execution of KPI improvement initiatives aligned with plant and business objectives.
• Identify, evaluate, and justify process improvement opportunities.
• Lead or support improvement and capital projects within assigned scope, including cost estimates, schedules, and progress updates.
• Contribute to plant X‑Matrix action items and site improvement initiatives.
• Support achievement of strategic goals aligned with the future‑state manufacturing roadmap.
• Contribute technical input toward longer‑term process robustness, digitalization, and automation initiatives.
• Balance short‑term operational support with long‑term process capability improvements.

Education

Bachelors degree in engineering related field

High school diploma with 10 years of manufacturing/production experience

Job description

PPG Industries is seeking a Process Engineer to design, optimize, and sustain safe, compliant manufacturing processes across operations. This individual contributor role partners with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, EHS, and Engineering to meet current production needs while enabling future-state capability.

The role emphasizes hands-on troubleshooting, recipe and process control, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, quality, efficiency, and cost performance