Process/ Production Engineer

Excellent opportunity to join an expanding global leader, with daily involvement as Process/ Production Engineer. Excellent long term career opportunities within this Eastern North Carolina plant site. Offering competitive salary, bonus, and relocation options.
Responsibilities:
---Provide process oversight for multiple production operations.
---Recommend and lead facilities, procedural and process improvements to maintain and improve production quality, safety, cost and efficiency in line with the Continuous Improvement philosophy
---Monitor and analyze daily production for assigned areas. Analyze data generated by the laboratories and identify trends. Recognizes potential production problems, investigates and recommends solutions to correct them.
---Lead role on projects or other teams for expansions or improvements as a technical resource/expert.
---Mentor junior Process and Project engineers and serve as a technology expert.
---Lead quality investigations and forms a team with appropriate internal representatives from Engineering, Quality and Production. Tracks progress of investigation (RCA), and ensures appropriate actions are taken to correct deficiencies.
---Prepare, review and approve production records including operating procedures, recipes, JSA's, and change requests as required.
---Interact with technicians on a regular basis to ensure effective communication of production and compliance related changes in procedures. Conducts formalized training for operative personnel as necessary
---Investigate and prepare reports related to production problems, customer complaints/inquiries, material reconciliation, process deviations, efficiency, and schedule variances.
---Assist in developing operating goals in support of divisional, unit, and corporate objectives. Develops plans to reduce COGS by continuously improving efficiencies, processing times, reducing labor and material costs, reducing maintenance costs and controlling expense budgets.
---Conducts trials as required to insure continuous improvement of the manufacturing process and to develop or validate new products at the site.
Qualifications:
---BS Engineering degree with 3+ years experience in Process/ Manufacturing Engineering in fiber, composite, polymer or chemical process manufacturing plant sites.
---Demonstrated technical process support ability.
---Advanced problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
---Knowledge of advanced process control systems and methodologies.
---US Citizenship or Permanent Resident (green card) is required.