Process Engineer - Lean & Six Sigma in Packaging Ops

Hood Packaging Corporation; Arden Hills (MN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical

dental

life insurance

401K retirement

paid vacations and holidays

Job summary

Hood Packaging Corporation is seeking a Process Engineer for our Arden Hills facility. The candidate will lead process improvement in extrusion operations, applying lean manufacturing and Six Sigma concepts to boost efficiency and reduce waste.

The ideal engineer holds an Engineering degree with 3-5 years in manufacturing, understands flexible packaging, and can develop documentation, train staff, and justify projects with ROI analyses. Competitive benefits included.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree and 3-5 years' experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of flexible packaging.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• Understanding of quality management systems and tools, including SPC, Pareto charts, Histograms, brainstorming, and Six Sigma concepts and applications.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, develops, and manages process improvement projects aimed at improving operational efficiencies (waste, productivity, costs).
• Trouble shoots daily production and process problems, communicates with Plant Manager, Production Manager, Maintenance supervisor and Production Supervisors and Operators regarding run problems, investigates root causes and recommends and implements corrective actions.
• Works with manufacturing and maintenance personnel to ensure consistent operation of equipment to prescribed conditions, once developed. Identifies set-up/run parameters; maintenance intervals; and/or material specifications.
• Develops setup, run, and changeover documentation and facilitates all training.
• Writes, performs, analyzes, and reports on validations to support process standardization.
• Develops project justifications, ROI analysis and proper project/capital requests consistent with company policy.
• Observe the trial/developmental/production orders as they are run, including troubleshooting issues

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Continuous improvement

Six Sigma

Quality management

SPC

Education

Engineering Degree

Job description

Hood Packaging Corporation is seeking a Process Engineer for our Arden Hills facility. The candidate will lead process improvement in extrusion operations, applying lean manufacturing and Six Sigma concepts to boost efficiency and reduce waste.

The ideal engineer holds an Engineering degree with 3-5 years in manufacturing, understands flexible packaging, and can develop documentation, train staff, and justify projects with ROI analyses. Competitive benefits included.