Process Engineering Manager

Process Engineering Manager

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking a Process Engineering Manager for our Nutek location in McElhattan, Pa.  This position will be responsible for managing a team of process engineers to provide technical leadership for high-speed manufacturing processes. Provides technical leadership and support to achieve required new products and product improvements, manufacturing cost, quality improvements and manufacturing equipment utilization, reliability, speeds, scrap rates, and efficiency goals.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Manages process engineering services and service levels across different assets within the plant based on business needs.
• Uses data to drive decision making to ensure teams are prioritizing high impact projects.
• Partners closely with product development, production, and plant engineering to prioritize and plan project work.
• Drives team improvements through a training plan focused on developing technical skills such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma Black Belt, and Data Analysis.
• Oversees engineering, critical process descriptions and catalogues.
• Analyzes and makes recommendations for process improvement.
• Manages demand for process-oriented projects and services.
• Simulates new process designs.
• Provides technical leadership for continuous improvement projects to drive improvements in efficiency, scrap, speeds, quality, and safety. 
  • Ensures technical training to operators and maintenance as needed is being completed.
• Collaborates with PD for new products and material trials.
• Maintains, audits, and updates as needed “Good Run” documentation, ensuring process conditions and measurements are defined, documented, and shared with operators. 
• Drives standardization across all platforms to ensure operator aids are consistent.
• Leads development of technical training aids through standard work.
• Provides guidance/direction on development and implementation of process control tools such as good run documentation and process centerlines.
  • Ensure critical process parameters are monitored and followed.
  • Reviews product specifications and BOM’s for accuracy.
  • Leads/directs development of standardization of process documentation.
• For new lines/equipment, leads the process definition on new production lines and major equipment and the startup, ensuring all process “Good Run” conditions and measurements are defined, documented, and shared with operators.
  • Provides direction and guidance on implementation and management of good run documentation and process control tools on new lines/equipment.
• Has access to sensitive technology and operational improvement plans.  Acts as responsible company contact in dealings with outside equipment and service providers.
• Works effectively with employees at all levels of the organization, and outside OEM’s, to constructively define and solve problems.  Provides technical leadership to assigned teams and routinely uses team member’s input to solve routine and long- term problems.
• Completes tasks on time, within budget, and with expected results.  Develops and effectively applies ongoing measurements to define problems and monitor progress for assigned lines.
• Uses SPC techniques to ensure problems are defined and fixed.  Demonstrates product specification: BOM: performance understanding and acts as line training resource.  Demonstrates urgency in resolving issues.
• Continually re-evaluates and adjusts plans based on changing business priorities to attain required results.  Adapts & leads change and constructively supports ongoing improvement philosophy throughout the company and particularly on his/her assigned lines.
• Develops and implements aggressive plans with minimal disruption on assigned production lines. 
• Instills sense of urgency with team and peers to maintain focused actions.
• Focuses personal efforts and those online team to achieve agreed upon results.  Clarifies unclear requests to get support from other parts of the organization.  Provides technical coaching to peers and line crews as needed.
• Follows necessary GMP, FDA, and ISO regulations/guidelines.
• Performs other duties as necessary when directed to do so.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering – Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, or equivalent.
• 7-10 years’ experience as an Engineering Manager within a high-speed continuous process manufacturing environment
• Continuous improvement, lean manufacturing methodologies experience is a plus.
• Has training in SPC, DOE, and Applied Problem-Solving techniques and has demonstrated successes applying these tools.

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical, dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums
• ...and more!