Senior Rolling Mill Process Engineer — Drive Improvement

Commercial Metals Company; Knoxville, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day 1 Benefits Coverage

Paid Time Off

401(k) with 4.5% match

Competitive compensation and bonuses

Life and disability insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Training and advancement opportunities

Job summary

Commercial Metals Company in Knoxville, TN, seeks a Sr. Process Engineer for the Rolling Mill to optimize reheat furnace, rolling mill, cooling bed, and related equipment. You’ll analyze data to reduce waste, drive stability, and lead improvement initiatives across the shop floor.

The role requires hands-on experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work with operators and managers on flexible schedules to ensure safe, reliable performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Metallurgy or related field.
• Minimum three years rolling mill experience in a hands-on environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze process performance using data-driven methods to identify waste, variability, and improvement opportunities.
• Investigate and recommend process, procedure, training or equipment needs to continually improve performance.
• Work with department and shift managers to optimize personnel and process execution for consistent performance and continuous process improvement.
• Monitor shop performance and processes daily for operation within established parameters.
• Determine causes for deviation and recommend corrections.
• Provide reporting daily, weekly and monthly to document Mill performance against established key performance indicators.
• Work with Quality Assurance Department to monitor product quality and identify and correct deviations.
• Interact with company personnel resources external to plant about process performance and improvement.
• Initiate communication with resources external to company (suppliers and contractors) for consistency and improvement initiatives.
• Lead or support process improvement projects and operational excellence initiatives

Skills

Rolling Mill operations

Process improvement

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgy

Job description

Commercial Metals Company in Knoxville, TN, seeks a Sr. Process Engineer for the Rolling Mill to optimize reheat furnace, rolling mill, cooling bed, and related equipment. You’ll analyze data to reduce waste, drive stability, and lead improvement initiatives across the shop floor.

The role requires hands-on experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work with operators and managers on flexible schedules to ensure safe, reliable performance.