Process Engineer

The Process Engineer – Extrusion Blow Molding (EBM) role is a key resource in the organization to support the Silgan Plastic Operation sites with technical knowledge to launch new products and continuous improvement projects supporting safety, quality, and operation in each facility.

Requirements

• Assist operations, engineering, and commercial team by applying plastics processing knowledge to evaluate new business opportunities on existing Silgan blow technology machines.
• Perform blow machine factory acceptance tests (FATs) to approve safe, quality, and in spec equipment for new business opportunities.
• Work with Product Development Engineers to support unit or full set process development for molds and annual evaluation of mold vendors for competitive bid process.
• Train Silgan Plastics operations and engineering team members on shuttle machine safety, operation, set-up and troubleshooting.
• Travel to operation facilities to assist with setup and support of new & continuous improvement process development and production startup.
• Work with EBM equipment vendors to ensure proper training materials, maintenance, and operations manuals are easy to understand and spend time at vendor’s manufacturing sites to train on their equipment to develop as internal expert resource for EBM technology.
• Assist with machine changeovers and troubleshooting as required to support manufacturing operations.
• Verify that the correct materials are being used and are properly prepared, review bill of material documents during new product set up.
• Support Product Development Engineers and plant on new product startups.
• Assist in electrical and mechanical troubleshooting of blow machines and ancillary equipment including material handling and color prep and dosing.