PROCESS ENGINEER

General Summary:

• Responsible for development of new and improved processes for custom polymer compounds

• Responsible for process data analysis, and communication of results

• Serve as primary contact with manufacturing sites for scale-up of new products

• 3 years plus hands-on compounding experience with the ability to work independently

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Supervise routine lab scale compounding operations, manpower planning, job assignments of laboratory process technicians

• Close collaboration with R&D/color teams, and technical coordinator on scheduling of sample production

• Responsible for process improvement and purchase of new process equipment/facilities

• Plan for routine and preventive maintenance work (including office maintenance of technology and RHQ offices)

• Assist manufacturing sites in problem solving during production scale-up of new products with challenging processing requirements

• Keep track of process laboratory’s expendable inventories and make requests for purchases of replacements when necessary

• Ensure proper house-keeping of the process laboratory and laboratory warehouse (implementation and maintenance of laboratory 5S)

• Perform any other tasks as and when assigned by supervisor

Requirement

• College and above education background, major in Polymer Engineering or compounding process.

• 3+ years in compounding process development and improvement, including hands-on experience in extruding operation.

• Experience in Scale up will be a plus.

• Good command of English in writing and reading, basic oral English.

• Familiar with MS office, like Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.