Coating Process Engineer

Responsible for reducing product and process variation through the use of Six Sigma / statistical tools and the implementation or improvement of existing procedures and process controls.Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities:Activities and duties may vary depending upon site specific needs. Essential functions may include, but are not limited to:Product Development: Continually improve and optimize current products through variability reduction. Provide support for new products as they arise by interacting with marketing business teams.Process Improvement: Initiate, implement and support new equipment and process upgrades to minimize scrap, increase productivity and improve quality. Assure improvements are sustained.Support and lead loss reduction projects to improve costs.Manufacturing Support: Provide support to manufacturing to resolve production and quality issues that arise on a day-to-day basis.Safety: Promote safety as the most important value in the organization by contributing through training, process improvement and other EH&S responsibilities.Quality Assurance: Promote product quality by partnering with vendors and developing raw material specifications. Provide input to the manufacturing organization regarding product fitness for use. Understand customer needs and expectations.Be available by phone at any time for process support questions. Provide emergency support for significant operational issues when they occur. Support the on-call team.Interact with necessary support teams including Maintenance and Engineering to ensure equipment reliability.Responsible for performance metrics on the Roll Editor as well as the coaters.Specific ResponsibilitiesDevelop and implement production/processing methods and controls to meet quality standards in the most cost-efficient manner.Investigate and resolve work-in-process problems.Recommend and implement improvements and/or modifications in sequence of operations, equipment utilization, and related matters.Monitor assigned operations to assure compliance with approved methods and quality standards.Responsible for all phases of assigned standard engineering projects, ensuring the successful conclusion of all phases within an appropriate time and at appropriate cost.Implement process improvements to meet quality standards, performs feasibility studies and solves problems.Design and develop procedures for processes such as unwinding, splicing, web guiding, coating, tension control, drying/curing, moisturization, cooling, laminating, winding and other material-processing operations.Plan sequence of operations and specify procedures for otherwise preparing basic material, exercising judgment in compromising between conflicting requirements, economic evaluation of methods, and operator effectiveness and comfort.Conduct tests and measurements throughout stages of production to determine control over such variables as tension, moisture content, temperature, percent solids, and pressure.Establish and submit processing requirements to be met in designing and acquiring processing equipment.Apply principles of chemistry and mechanical engineering to develop material and processing specifications.Material analyses may include failure analysis of components, systems and subsystems, life predictions, and definition and requirement specifications.