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Process Engineer (Extrusions or Web Handling)

Salary: £35000 ( Depending on Experience )

Location: South Wales

Ref: SR13012A

Process Engineer (Extrusions or Web Handling)

Salary: Up to £35,000 depending on experience + benefits

The Role:

We are now looking for a Process Engineer With a specialist background in Extrusion or Web handling technology and a focus on precision and accuracy, you will probably have gained your experience in the thermo plastics, thin film, foil, paper processing or medical products sectors.

You will be joining at an exciting time in the company's development and will play an important role in helping to create the manufacturing processes.

If you are of graduate caliber and looking for a challenging role in a company with a deep rooted philosophy to make a real difference this could be the role you have been looking for. You can demonstrate practical problem solving capability, with a probable background in thin film plastics, precision extrusion, paper processing or moulding of medical products.

The key responsibilities for the role are:
Interface closely with the science team to take new developments into production with focus on scale up.
Define operating system, produce prototypes, provide test data and evaluate performance issues and opportunities for improvement.
Define process limitation and ensure rigorous implementation process.
Define discrete projects and mange them to completion meeting requires time, cost and effectiveness targets.
Work closely with any external supplier of services ensuring that expectations of them are clearly defined and that they commit to and meet deliverables. Track progress of work undertaken by them.
Assume shared responsibility as part of the manufacturing team to ensure that production runs smoothly, delivers planned yields, run rates and cost targets.
Manage internal resource including technicians involved in the project.
Be mindful of IP opportunities generated as a result of process or equipment design and capture

The Candidate:

Essential
Degree/HNC with relevant manufacturing experience.
Background working with products/processes where precision and accuracy is absolute.
Ability to lead projects to completion with attention to detail as well as commercial awareness.
Must be excellent communicator, hands on engineer and results driven.

Desirable
CAD skills in either AutoCad or Solidworks.
Experience in cleanroom manufacturing environments.
Software skills in VB, or PLC or robot coding .
Exposure to Six Sigma continuous improvement techniques.

The Process Engineer (Extrusions or Web Handling) role would suit candidates who are a process engineer, chemical engineer, research & development engineer etc

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