Process Engineer III

TekniPlex

Blauvelt, NY

Pay: $92,000-$126,000/yr

**Imagine: A Career with Purpose and Possibility**

Picture this: You are part of a global team of problem-solvers whose innovations in materials science can make life better. Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real-world challenges. You’re part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.

At TekniPlex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, TekniPlex Healthcare and TekniPlex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care.

Here, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact.

Because at TekniPlex, you don’t just deliver products – you help shape what’s next.

***The compensation range for this position is $92k-$126k plus an annual target incentive bonus.***

**What is the role where you will make an impact?**

**Process Engineer:**

In this role you will use engineering principles, team facilitation skills, and statistical process control tools to measure and improve key processes integral to the manufacturing of sealing gaskets, pressure sensitive and induction seal closure liners for packaging within the pharmaceutical, medical, food and specialty items industries.

Identifiy key processes and develops relevant metrics to ensure process variables are quantified and within control. Identifies and conducts projects and facilitates cross functional improvement teams to improve manufacturing efficiency and reduce variability. Additional responsibilities include management of plant compliance associated with and including but not limited to, Environmental, State, Local Regulatory Agencies

**What will you do in this role?**

• Promotes personal and product safety by:

• + Is competent and supports the companies ISO standards for Product Safety 22000, Product Quality 15378 and HACCP.

+ Reports any non conformances or Product Safety risks to immediate supervisor.

+ Actively assesses activities on a constant basis to ensure no unsafe actions or results will occur.

+ Stresses safe working practices as a condition of employment to associates.

+ Assisting in audits of employee behaviors to ensure compliance with safety rules and guidelines, as well as housekeeping audits and surveys.

+ Participating actively on the plant-wide safety team.

+ Ensuring the housekeeping in the immediate and surrounding work area is maintained or improved to the highest level possible.

+ Consistently wears personal protective equipment.

• Participates in safety based training provided by the company or recommended by the company.

• Ensures Quality of products and processes are maintained by:

• + Is competent and supports the companies ISO standards for Product Quality 15378.

• + Reports any non-conformances or high risk quality problems to immediate supervisor.
• Performing work at a level that ensures quality of this position’s work meets or exceeds internal and customer specifications.
• Identifying and correcting if possible any identified quality issues in the department.
• Participates in Quality based training provided by the company or recommended by the company.
• Implement lean manufacturing principles. Facilitates cross functional improvement teams with the objective of implementing lean manufacturing principles.
• Identify, propose and execute projects to improve efficiency. Prepares proposals & reports and executes planned projects, including, determining time frames, funding, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of projects.
• Work directly with machine operators to identify needs and develop solutions; work with Maintenance on equipment modifications and preventative /predictive maintenance to ensure reliability.
• Identify, propose and execute projects to improve customer satisfaction, through performance and product reliability. Develops / improves product reliability, performance consistency and cost effectiveness.
• Provide manufacturing information to other departments, such as finance and human resources.
• Develop thorough knowledge of all manufacturing processes and equipment; monitor and assess all equipment performance; develop requirements and participate in CER development for new/modified equipment.
• Statistically evaluate process parameters; assess impacts of material changes to efficiency and process integrity. Reduce scrap level