Senior Process Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Germantown (MD); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global provider of healthcare manufacturing solutions seeks a Senior Process Engineer for their Germantown facility. The role focuses on developing and optimizing plastic molding processes, providing expert technical support, and collaborating with various teams to ensure production efficiency and quality. With a competitive salary and excellent benefits, this position offers an opportunity to impact vital innovations in the healthcare sector.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K

Life insurance

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Vacation and holidays

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of plastics injection molding experience.
• Working knowledge of injection molding processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop, optimize, and improve plastic molding processes.
• Provide expert technical guidance to technicians.
• Conduct tests and analyze results in relation to specifications.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Mechanical skills

Education

High school diploma or GED

Completion of an accredited two-year technical college program or a four-year university program in a related field

Job description

MGS has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Process Engineer to join our MGS Germantown Manufacturing team.

As a Senior Process Engineer at MGS, you will be responsible for developing, optimizing, and improving plastic molding processes to ensure efficiency, quality, and productivity. You will provide expert technical guidance to process technicians, resolving molding-related issues promptly and effectively. Serving as a key liaison, you will work closely with internal customers to diagnose challenges and implement sustainable solutions. Additionally, you will collaborate proactively with scheduling, tool room personnel, quality assurance teams, and other departments, effectively communicating and addressing any concerns that could impact production schedules or product quality.

Below are additional duties and responsibilities:

1. Perform tool qualifications.
2. Aid in the development of plastic processing project instructions to determine test specifications, procedures, objectives, test equipment, nature of technical problems, and possible solutions such as part redesign, substitution of materials or parts, or rearrangement of parts or subassemblies.
3. Devise and recommend new or modified components of plastic injection molding machinery.
4. Conduct tests such as process window studies and design of experiments of plastic injection molding processes to investigate proposals for improving equipment performance or other factors, or to obtain data for development, standardization, and quality control.
5. Analyze indicated and calculated test results in relation to design or rated specifications and test objectives, and modify or adjust equipment to meet specifications.
6. Record test procedures and results, numerical and graphical data, and recommendations for changes in process, product, or test methods.
7. Identify and record any problems relating to the product, process, and quality system.
8. Interact with customers during sampling and development of projects. Will travel to customer facilities to represent the company as needed.
9. Perform any other duties as assigned.

About MGS

As a global provider of healthcare manufacturing solutions, MGS offers the right balance to drive vital innovations: robust end-to-end solutions combined with strong customer focus and seamless collaboration as an agile partner. We are the engineering and manufacturing partner of choice for leading Pharma, Diagnostic, and MedTech innovators. Serving customers from 12 strategically located facilities worldwide, we transform our customers' most pressing challenges into innovations that improve lives. To learn more about MGS, please visit www.mgsmfg.com.

A qualified Senior Process Engineer candidate would fulfill these requirements:

• High school diploma or GED is required. Completion of an accredited two-year technical college program, or a four-year university program, in a related field of study is preferred.
• 5-7 years of plastics injection molding experience.
• Working knowledge of injection molding processes.
• Troubleshooting skills.
• Mechanical skills.

Benefits:

We offer an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401K, life, FSA, vacation, and holidays.