Senior Process Engineer

TEEMA; Hattiesburg (MS); On-site; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

TEEMA is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to evaluate and optimize manufacturing processes across the USCT portfolio of specialty chemical/materials companies. You will get on the factory floor to understand how products are made, identify bottlenecks, and redesign processes for greater throughput, yield, and cost efficiency.

You will build business cases for equipment investments, work with operators and plant leadership, and help drive improvements across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Real manufacturing experience inside manufacturing environments.
• Strong process engineering foundation in materials, chemical, or adjacent fields.
• Factory-floor instincts to observe, dissect, and improve processes.
• Experience in specialty chemicals, materials processing, or related industries is valuable.
• Ability to quantify costs and savings to justify investments.
• High EQ to work with plant operators and leadership.
• Willingness to travel to manufacturing sites.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate manufacturing processes across USCT’s portfolio of specialty chemical/materials companies.
• Get onto the factory floor and understand how products are manufactured.
• Identify bottlenecks in throughput, yield, labor, quality, and equipment utilization.
• Redesign and optimize processes for efficiency, reliability, and scale.
• Evaluate new equipment, automation, and process technologies.
• Build ROI cases for technical investments and cost savings.
• Collaborate with operators, technicians, and plant leadership to implement improvements.

Skills

Manufacturing Experience

Process Engineering

Factory Floor Instincts

Heavy Manufacturing

Technical + Financial

High EQ

Travel

Job description

Job Title:Senior Process Engineer
Job ID:90235
Location: Los Angeles, California/ New York

What you will be doing:

• Evaluate manufacturing processes across USCT’s portfolio of specialty chemical/materials companies.
• Get onto the factory floor and deeply understand how products are actually being manufactured.
• Identify bottlenecks acrossthroughput, yield, labor, quality, equipment utilization, material flow and cost.
• Redesign and optimize manufacturing processes to improve efficiency, reliability, scalability and economics.
• Evaluate new manufacturing equipment, automation and process technologies.
• Build thebusiness case and ROIbehind technical investments: CapEx, labor savings, throughput improvements, yield gains, payback periods, etc.
• Translate technical recommendations into decisions leadership can act on.
• Work directly with operators, technicians and plant leadership to implement improvements — not just recommend them.
• Support technical diligence on potential acquisitions and identify opportunities to improve facilities after acquisition.
• Help bring modern manufacturing thinking into highly specialized, often legacy industrial environments.

What you must have:

• Real manufacturing experience.You have spent meaningful time inside manufacturing environments and understand how factories actually operate.
• Strong process engineering foundation.Ideally materials, chemical, process, manufacturing or adjacent engineering.
• Factory-floor instincts.You can observe an unfamiliar manufacturing process, dissect it, find the constraint and formulate a better approach.
• Heavy manufacturing/process exposure.Specialty chemicals, materials processing, advanced manufacturing or similar environments are especially relevant.
• Technical + financial brain.You don’t stop at“this machine would make the process faster.”You can determine what it costs, what it saves, the operational tradeoffs and whether the investment actually makes sense.
• High EQ.You’re walking into established companies with people who may have spent decades perfecting their craft. You need to earn credibility, learn from them and bring them along — not walk in acting like the corporate person who knows everything.
• Travel.This role needs someone who genuinely enjoys being at manufacturing sites.

Salary/Rate Range: $170,000-$220,000