Process Optimization Engineer — Chemical Manufacturing

3V Sigma USA; Georgetown (SC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

3V Sigma USA is seeking a Process Engineer who thrives at the intersection of chemical engineering, reaction chemistry, and hands-on manufacturing. You will understand why a process behaves the way it does and use data and fundamentals to improve safety, quality, yield, and productivity on up to four production processes.

You will partner with operators and multiple teams to investigate issues, define corrective actions, and lead improvement projects from definition through implementation, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering.
• 3+ years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with root cause analysis and structured problem-solving methods.
• Experience with MOC and CAPA processes.
• Strong analytical skills to translate production and process data into improvements.
• Ability to learn new reaction chemistries and unit operations.

Responsibilities

• Own the monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of up to four chemical production processes.
• Develop an understanding of the reaction chemistry behind assigned processes and apply it to troubleshooting and optimization.
• Analyze and correlate production data to identify root causes of quality, yield, productivity, equipment, and process-performance issues.
• Lead investigations involving customer complaints, off-specification production, equipment failures, and process upsets.
• Define, implement, and verify corrective actions and process improvements based on investigation findings.
• Lead process improvement projects from problem definition through implementation and follow-up.
• Correlate final product quality with raw material, reaction, and production-data.
• Track production yields, perform mass balances, and identify opportunities to reduce process variation and losses.
• Apply SPC and SQC tools to improve process performance.
• Participate in and support MOC and CAPA processes.
• Partner with Production Operators and Supervisors, Quality, Maintenance, Warehouse, Management, Sales, and others to develop practical solutions.
• Serve as a technical resource to manufacturing operations.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Statistical analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Process troubleshooting

Analytical thinking

Strong fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering

Tools

MOC

CAPA

SPC

SQC

Job description

3V Sigma USA is seeking a Process Engineer who thrives at the intersection of chemical engineering, reaction chemistry, and hands-on manufacturing. You will understand why a process behaves the way it does and use data and fundamentals to improve safety, quality, yield, and productivity on up to four production processes.

You will partner with operators and multiple teams to investigate issues, define corrective actions, and lead improvement projects from definition through implementation, while