Job Description

As a world leader in telecom cable systems, the Prysmian Group’s Claremont fiber manufacturing plant is seeking a highly motivated, self-starter, developing leader to join the engineering department to support the manufacturing of optical fiber. This individual will evaluate, troubleshoot, and conduct process control and improvement activities on a daily basis and through long-term projects.

**Requirements: **

• B.S. in Engineering (Chemical, Materials, Mechanical, Glass Science, Ceramic, or Metallurgical Engineering) from an ABET accredited institution

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in a complex manufacturing process or an internship experience in a complex manufacturing environment

• Ability to understand complex process flow and machinery

• Desire to become a subject matter expert in the assigned process area

• Ability to multi-task

• Ability to prioritize tasks to make progress on short term and long term initiatives

• Exhibit engagement, involvement and curiosity about other departments or process areas outside of immediate assigned area

• Ability to influence people or departments outside of direct process area

• Comfortable working in multidisciplinary teams and across different departments

• Demonstrated ability to work in high pressure situations

• Demonstrated ability to improve a situation

• Initiative to take on large or many different responsibilities and initiative to anticipate problems or seek improvements without being prompted

• Excellent communication skills

• Proficiency in Excel

• Proficiency PowerPoint

• Detail and quality oriented

• Strong presentation skills

• Demonstrated excellent organizational skills

• Comfortable speaking to large audiences

• Experience working with large sets of data and making data driven decisions

• Ability to make analytical decision

• Ability to contribute to the team’s culture of continuous process changes and improvements

• Ability to work with little supervision

• Ability to work independently

Preferred:

• 3-5 years experience in complex manufacturing environment

• B.S/M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Glass Science, Ceramic or Metallurgical Engineering

• Experience with statistical analysis tools such as Minitab or SAS

Responsibilities:

• Monitor manufacturing processes on a daily basis to identify trends and out-of-control situations and provide solutions according to urgency and importance.

• Be the leader in the process area responsible for yields, documentation, procedures, tracking data, and technical innovation.

• Prioritize issues to make meaningful impacts on the process yields and productivity

• Develop or maintain performance indicators on a weekly or monthly basis to ensure the process is meeting quality and productivity targets.

• Perform root cause analysis on reasons for trends, equipment issues- importantly repeat equipment issues, and process drifts.

• Provide data and explanations to other process engineers, lead operators, process technicians, and other departments in order to maintain process stability.

• Report on a weekly basis a summary of process changes, developments, improvements, project progress to the engineering manager.

• Work with operators to identify process problems and also provide occasional process training.

• Work with technicians to identify equipment problems and also provide training.

• Write process documentation and update procedures.

• Be on call on a pre-determined rotating schedule and occasionally provide off hours support

• Lead improvement projects in the facility.

• Identify cost reduction projects and work with the team to implement them.

• Implement process changes or new products as directed by R&D.

• Collaborate with engineers at other international Prysmian plants to resolve process problems or make process improvements.

• Become a contributing member of the global process control team with a desire to generate change.

• Comply with all applicable safety procedures and ISO14001 EMS guidelines

You should be proficient in:

• Data Analysis and Manipulation
• Process Engineering
• ISO 14001 Certification Experience