This position provides technical support and leadership within the department. Develop and implement best practices to improve safety, quality, productivity and cost reduction. Assist in the development of specific performance parameters for operations.

This candidate must have paper coating experience. This is a must. At the very least, some

Exposure to paper coating.

JOB FUNCTIONS:

Support/lead process improvement projects. Projects involve chemicals, mechanical improvements, support for on chemical trials and investigation of new technologies.
Drive process engineering roles, troubleshoot, and see through to problem-solve for the paper machines.
Identifies opportunities and direct efforts to improve existing processes to improve productivity, quality, and/or reduce cost.
Act as change agent to drive continuous improvement of production processes to improve quality and increase efficiency, which includes root cause analysis and problem solving.
Analyze downtime.
Needs to be self-starter, be self-directed, take initiative to move forward with ideas, be committed and be able to work with and influence others.
Coordinate testing in support of process improvements, trials, and other instances as required.
Coordinate activities of vendors and production to resolve quality problems and continuously improve the level of quality.
Review daily production and quality data, analyzes production and operation issues.
Provide data analysis to improve teams and processes on a timely basis.

Qualifications
Candidate must be a degreed engineer with paper coating experience. 2-5 years minimum experience. Must come out of the paper manufacturing industry.