Job position: Plant Engineer
Job type: Full-time, perm
Location: Colborne, ON

Primary responsibilities:
Review manufactured products to ensure optimum formulation, throughput, and quality.
Identify Safety Improvements through At Risk Conditions
Identify all products capable of utilizing gravimetric feeders to minimize handling and increase throughput.
Reduce components of compounds and master batches where possible to minimize pre-blending and SKU's.
Provide the Production Department with set conditions for new products prior to being released to operators.
Maintain Process set conditions and update manuals on a regular basis to ensure only current parameters are used.
Ensure Production Department compliance with ISO 2015 Standards
Prepare SWOT analysis for Production Department and update quarterly.
Maintain CPM and identify trends, positive or negative. Identify potential corrective action as required.
Create Team and organize process trials and report findings and recommendations to Plant Manager
Work with Maintenance Department and Operations to optimize extruder configurations by product group.
Work with the Technical Manager to attain new business through trials and resolve process issues.
Recommend equipment additions or upgrades to improve quality and/or throughput.
Collect daily plant performance results and update Plant Production Scoreboard and Extrusion Line Results Scoreboards
Using Visual/Lean Daily Management to identify gaps and through Continuous Improvement activities develop action plans to improve performance.
Develop and maintain standard work documents for plant production tasks.
Develop and maintain JSA (Job Safety Analysis) documents for plant production tasks.

Background Required:

Relevant degree from a recognized university preferably in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Chemical Engineering
Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) Certification is considered a definite asset
Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt experience is considered a definite asset
5 years experience formulating and compounding polyolefin-based compounds or master batches or with plastics/polymers
Extensive knowledge of the configuration and operation of co-rotating twin screw extruders and other auxiliary equipment (feed systems and pelletizers)
Supervisory experience in a production environment
Communicate with clarity in all situations including written, verbal and team settings
Experience using Microsoft Office, including the ability to create reports, documents, presentations, pivot tables and spreadsheets in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint