Process Engineer - HYBRID (Youngsville, NC)

Full Time
Ann Arbor, MI
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Amcor Rigid Packaging
Process Engineer / Sr Process Engineer
HYBRID - Youngsville, NC
Join Amcor and you can be part of the team that makes the packaging of the future better for people and our planet.**
Here at Amcor, we work together every day to make a positive impact on the lives of millions of people across the globe by providing packaging for essential products, including food, beverages, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care.
We are sustainability leaders in our industry. We are the first global packaging company to commit to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025.
Our products are vital to support the lives of millions of people across the globe every day.
We are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to innovating and driving new solutions to create more sustainable packaging solutions.

  • At Amcor Rigid Packaging (ARP), our teams are focused on developing and making plastic bottles and jars that create a unique experience and are better for the environment. Our bottles and jars are primarily made from PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which has rapidly become the world’s preferred packaging material. PET is lightweight, shatterproof, recloseable, resealable, reusable and infinitely recyclable*.

With approximately 6,000 people across about 50 manufacturing operations in 11 countries and an annual revenue of US$2.9 Billion, ARP provides rigid packaging solutions to the beverage, pharmaceutical, food, and home and personal care segments.
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with existing technologies including chemical recycling

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Position Overview:

  • Reporting to the Technology Platform Leader, this position will be responsible for all aspects of injection or blow mold samplings & qualification services for new products, improvements to existing products and all validation processing for new and rebuilt molds within the functional group. This position will liaison with all plant technical roles to support machine startups with new and repaired molds, protocol validation processing, and to assist in corrective actions, and/or improving process/tooling issues. In addition, the Process Engineer will hold the responsibility for process optimization and recommendations for mold modification to new tooling to meet dimensional and visual specifications. The Process Engineer is responsible for documenting and communicating best practices throughout each manufacturing operation working closely with the plant process technicians and quality engineers.*
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Essential Functions
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  • Develop and implement a process for trial validations initially for the facility then replicate to the other plants in Specialty Containers.
  • Provide Project Management Activities (Scope, Schedule, Budget, Quality) for the trial activities that will allow for successful completion of the trial activities. This will include the development and implementation of a formalized trial tracker process that will integrate with the current timing charts from the R&D organization. This trial tracker will be leveraged across all Specialty Container Locations.
  • Provide hands on support as required for Mold Trials and Validations as required. This hands-on support will include Hanging Molds, Developing Processes Settings, Documenting Process Settings, and Coordination with the Quality Labs to make sure final packages are complete.
  • Provide Manufacturing Support to assist in solving production issues related to machine, process, tooling/design, material, or various combinations as required.
  • Responsible for all aspects of mold samplings & qualification services on new, replacement or rebuilt tools.
  • Participation in the On-Stie Inspection and Qualification for Molds and/or Factory Acceptance Testing for Tools and Equipment as required at Vendor Locations.
  • Support plants with equipment, process, capability studies and tooling qualifications/validations as needed.
  • Participate with Plant Operations teams on Performance Improvements initiatives that will include scrap reductions, material utilization, cycle time rates and process evaluations to improve line efficiencies.
  • Communicate with plants on a regular basis to understand long term project performance and support resolution of plant issues.
  • Attend new project meetings, design reviews and tool specification meetings as required.
  • Optimize the molding process to obtain dimensional limits at the designed cycle time or less as identified with the approved process capability and validation.
  • Manage corrective actions for unsuccessful qualifications or non-compliant processes.
  • Perform Design of Experiments (DOE’s) and Research and Development (R&D) process capability studies to ensure compliance to standards and specifications and processes.
  • Create and maintain standardized Master Process Sheets for defined injection or blow molding process.
  • Create and maintain the Master Process of Adjustments (POA’s) for process and packaging lines baseline settings.
  • Audit the plants is maintaining a current database of injection or blow mold tooling with updated conditions and accompanying Master Process Sheets.
  • Establish and maintain data resource information relative to packaging, machinery and processes.
  • Make recommendations for tooling and/or equipment upgrades, or replacement based on collected data from engineering studies.
  • Facilitates, Documents and Communicates best practices within the Platform Technology ss required throughout all manufacturing facilities.
  • Leads and preforms in house training on injection or blow mold tooling maintenance in alignment with the respective vendors. Training will include Safety, Operations, Process Control and Maintenance functions. This will include salary and hourly plant personnel in technical areas as directed by corporate and plant management, including machine processing and tool design change recommendations
  • Creates and maintains the training program in the areas of machine operation, process control and machine troubleshooting standards.
  • Develop organizational technical capabilities in the organization technology platform, build technical collaboration networks and mentoring technical team members. Provide assessment of plant technical teams and identification gaps as required.
  • Works with and leads the corporate and plant quality teams to improve process operations and product development along with corporate R&D, Innovation and Commercial Team.
  • Act as technical liaison between Operations Engineering and Customer during new tooling qualifications, product launches, start-ups and quality events as required.
  • Flexible work schedule 50% to 75% travel potentially required.

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Education and Experience Required
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  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred or equivalent experience
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills to understand, influence, drive and negotiate with internal and external customers.
  • Strong management, communication and people skills required to influence and manage multiple resources, most of which do not report to the process engineer.
  • Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Minimum of (5) five years processing experience in the plastics packaging industry desired
  • Experience with SPC is beneficial.
  • This individual must possess a broad experience and/or knowledge in the areas of:
  • Injection or Blow Mold machine functionality and troubleshooting
  • Hydraulic circuity and process control
  • Hands on ability to operate injection or blow mold machine platforms
  • Possess mold and hot runner design experience and functionality testing including multi material systems
  • Process fundamentals and optimization
  • Quality Assurance Systems
  • System interfaces and interactions for maximum performance
  • Customer Service orientation along with high degree of professionalism.

The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job.*
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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Job Type: Full-time

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