Senior Process Engineer 1

Lubrizol; Corona (CA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in chemical engineering, Lubrizol is seeking a Technical Advisor - Extrusion to drive innovation in the medical device industry. This role involves collaborating closely with project teams, enhancing operator competencies, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives. Ideal candidates will have substantial extrusion experience and the ability to mentor others while ensuring excellence in all operations.

Qualifications

• 8 or more years of extrusion experience, including process/tooling design.
• Hands-on troubleshooting experience.
• Experience training, coaching, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Serve as subject matter expert for extrusion processes and equipment.
• Develop processes and tooling that meet customer expectations.
• Lead teams in troubleshooting and improving operational issues.

Skills

Extrusion experience

Process/tooling design

Troubleshooting

Training and coaching

MS Office Applications

Education

High School or GED Diploma

Job description

Salary Range:106,000 - 129,000

About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com .

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Technical Advisor - Extrusion!

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol, we're transforming the medical device industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

The Technical Advisor- Extrusion serves as our subject matter expert for our extrusion processes and equipment. Our Technical Advisors drive innovation and excellence. Working with our Production and Engineering teams to solve customer challenges resolve process issues to meet business and site performance objectives

• Work closely with internal and external project engineers in developing processes and tooling that meet customer expectations on cost, quality and delivery of new product development.
• Build the technical competencies of operators by sharing process knowledge, problem-solving thought process and techniques, and experience.
• Coaches shift teams to troubleshoot to solve operational issues.
• Improves operator's knowledge regarding process and equipment functionality and performance.
• Performs or supportsproblem-solving andformal root cause analyses.
• Assist in creating, developing and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assist customer complaint investigation and corrective actions for area of expertise.
• Collaboratively works with maintenance, reliability, and improvement personnel to resolve issues and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Shares and leverages knowledge, experience, and best practices with applicable stakeholders.
• Leads andsupports targeted process and productivity improvement teams ( e.g., work with improvement and reliability engineers to resolve operational issues).
• Supports work process and best practice implementation.
• Contributes to updating and improving the area's operating discipline and procedures.
• Perform internal compliance auditing to process.
• Investigates non-conformances and customer complaints regarding products and recommends permanent manufacturing improvements to correct and prevent recurrences.
• Diagnosing manufacturing problems and recommending corrective and preventative actions
• Observe and promote Company standards and policies on safety, quality and productivity.
• Understand Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in medical devices and a clean room environment context.
• Convert various units of measurement.

Skills That Matter:

• High School or GED Diploma
• 8 or more years extrusion experience including process/tooling design, setup, troubleshooting is essential.
• Experience with thermoplastic extrusion processes including a variety of mixes and materials.
• Hands-on troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with MS Office Applications.
• Experience training, coaching, mentoring, and influencing others.

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.