Graduate Process Improvement Engineer

Scantec Recruitment are proud to be working in partnership with a leading FMCG packaging manufacturing business near Gainsborough. Due to an internal promotion, we are seeking a Graduate Process Improvement Engineer to join their Technical team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a business who are investing in their business.

For this role we are seeking a candidate with a BSc or MSc in Chemical Engineering, with at least one year experience post-study.

Hours:

Monday to Friday
8.30am-5pm

About the role:

Reporting to the Senior Process Improvement Engineer, your day to day will focus on driving efficient production against the specified KPI s. This will involve a healthy balance between desk work (data analysis, root cause analysis, training, audits, writing report, SOP s etc) and providing leadership / driving change to the operators on the line.

Graduate Process Improvement Engineer Summary of daily duties:

• Daily monitoring of process and quality data
• Drive TPM and NPD meeting
• Conduct root cause analysis using lean six sigma principles
• Ability to gather, analyse and interpret data
• Conduct trials and provide direction with meaningful data
• Write technical trial reports
• Ability to learn and optimise equipment using data
• Conduct mass balances and yield analysis
• Seek out areas for Process Improvement/ cost reduction
• Establish and present the business case of proven performance losses
• Conduct cost benefit analysis
• Provide support/leadership on site projects
• Provide leadership and support to team members and production teams
• Review, update and write technical SOP s
• Implement, embed and validate new practices and process changes.
• Conduct /support customer complaint investigations.
• Cooperate and promote culture change in H&S, environment and quality areas.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• GBP500 bonus paid on successfully passing probation.
• Annual Bonus.
• Death in service up to 4x salary.

Required skills, knowledge & experience:

We re seeking a candidate with a BSc or MSc degree in Chemical Engineering with at least one year experience post-study, in a similar role within a production / manufacturing environment.