Production Chemical Engineer

Solstice Consulting Group is seeking a Production Engineer for a chemical manufacturing client in Brandenburg, Kentucky (approx 40 miles from Louisville). Relocation assistance may be available if not local.

- Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering and 5+ years’ experience in product engineering in a chemicals or related sector required

- Experience in continuous and/or batch processes and control systems preferred; manufacturing experience preferred.

- Base salary of $100k - $120k DOE plus 10% bonus opportunity and excellent benefits

Role Overview:

The Production Engineer role leads projects and acts as a technical resource for plant operations to implement process improvements and cost savings.

Responsibilities:

- Initiate Management of Change for all Process Hazard Analysis (PHA’s) action items and coordinate their execution.

- Conduct incident investigations including root cause analysis, coordinating execution of action items and continuous improvement activities

- Review and analyze daily operations and trends.

- Review operating procedures, ensuring documentation complies with established ISO standards, create and maintain spreadsheets and charts, review daily logs, collect data, maintain files and update forms as necessary.

- Investigate quality and deferment customer complaints, provide root cause and correction actions.

- Identify and assist in the development/execution of expense and capital projects to facilitate improvements, improve reliability, reduce fixed costs and enhance safety.

- Ensure full compliance with all regulatory requirements, including but not limited to OSHA, EPA, DOT, etc., and all HSE rules, policies, practices and procedures all the time.

- Drive continuous improvements through close measurement tracking of key plant metrics (including OEE, UPE, DPR, FPQ, etc.).

- Become technical resource liaison between Microelectronics unit and tolling customer.

Education Qualifications

- Required Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering and 5+ years of related experience

- Experience in continuous and/or batch processes and control systems preferred; manufacturing experience preferred.

- Experience with PSM a plus.

- Demonstrated analytical and project management skills.

- Must have ability to interact effectively with technical contacts, as well as hourly workforce.

- Must have demonstrated ability to master specific products, processes and equipment.

- Good organizational, time management, verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills. Must have good problem-solving skills using Statistical Process Control (SPC) as a tool.

- MS Office experience required.

- SAP experience a plus.

- Proficiency in configuring Provox and DeltaV distributed control systems preferred.

- Experience with Root Cause Analysis strongly preferred.