Process Engineer

Overview

Job Title: PROCESS ENGINEER

Purpose: The Process Engineer will aid the supporting function in all Production areas of process and quality, including goods in and despatch.

Scope: This role will report directly to the Process Engineering Manager, whilst working closely with the Production Section Leaders and QA Engineering team.

Please note that this job description is intended only to act as a guide to the requirements of this role and is not an exhaustive list. As such all job descriptions are non-contractual and may be subject to review and amendment. The Company and management reserve the right to require you to undertake reasonable duties and tasks which are not detailed below.

Responsibilities

• Health and Safety
  • Ensure that health, safety and environmental legislative standards are adhered to across all areas of the production environment.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all safety requirements are clearly stated in the relevant Production SOPs.
• Production Process Improvement
  • Constant review and improvement to ensure effective and efficient process re-engineering, training, piece-part flow, etc. Recommend, innovate and implement revised methods and processes to ensure labour costs are in line with the business objectives.
• SOPs
  • Take ownership and lead for the creation and management of all product and process SOPs, ensuring control and adherence within the manufacturing environment (Cross functional sign off). Roll out training programmes for all new processes introduced.
  • Ensure all manufacturing activities are covered by an SOP and objective assessment located on SharePoint.
• CCA Participation
  • Active role in the completion of CCAs ensuring the Quality Engineering team are supported to close out complaints in a timely manner.
  • Ensure continuous improvement in the quantity of process related CCAs from the CCA log.
• New Product Introduction
  • Take a lead role to ensure the team actively progress all NPIs relative to their responsible product areas. Ensure project plan updates are effectively communicated. Prepare production area(s) to ensure timely/effective product introductions. Validate requirements for jigs and fixtures as required and ensure a detailed capital expenditure justification is produced.
  • Ensure that full buy off has been conducted with documented evidence (FAT / SAT documents).
  • Ensure that production metrics are recorded and submitted.
• NRFT Investigation
  • Support quality department in the interrogation of NRFT KPIs and implement actions to remedy for each of the key production areas. Actions should show a clear reduction in the NRFT figure month on month.
• Inter-departmental Interface
  • Provide the primary process interface between allocated manufacturing departments and Technical and Sales.
  • Ensure all NPI actions are implemented within the agreed timeline from NPI meeting/log.
  • Ensure all PNR and PCD actions are implemented within the agreed timeline.
• Process Change Management
  • Ensure all changes made to processes are captured via the management of change system.
  • Full stakeholder sign-off and review is used when conducting any process change.
• Any other reasonable task the manager may deem as suitable for the role

Person Specification – Production / Process Improvement Engineer

The competencies listed are appropriate to the Production / Process Improvement Engineer and are an illustration of the qualities that the Company requires.

Professional Requirements

• Degree educated in a relevant field or relevant experience with equivalent qualifications (HND / HNC).
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in an industrial manufacturing role.
• Proven experience of lean manufacturing, continuous improvement and business improvement tools and techniques.
• Working knowledge of FMEA, 8D, Ishikawa diagrams, 5-Why, and SPC.
• Hands-on Six Sigma experience; Green Belt qualification is highly desirable.
• Experience of working to stringent audited ISO quality standards.
• Experience of transforming manual processes to automated and from batch to single piece flow.

Personal Competencies

• Ability to work on own initiative with a pro-active strategic approach to challenges.
• Attention to detail.
• Confident commercial awareness and clear business acumen.
• Ability to influence individuals and teams to achieve desired goals and objectives.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Effective team player.
• Ability to motivate and lead a team to achieve set goals.
• Ability to take a systematic approach to daily operations.
• Highly motivated and able to build close relationships internally and externally to achieve an end goal.
• Customer and market oriented.

Walker Filtration employs over 300 employees across the globe, serving over 100 countries from our Headquarters in the North East of England, along with competence centres in Australia, the United States and Japan. As a company, we are committed to sustainable engineering, manufacturing and developing long term careers. We recruit talented, ambitious and driven individuals to be part of Walker Filtration’s growth plans. We firmly believe that people are our greatest asset, and our employees are given the opportunity to progress their own careers and help drive the business forward.