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Nutek Process Engineer

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members,while maintaining ourfamilyvalues and entrepreneurialspirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Qualitygroup produce high-quality personal care and household products forlargeretailers and healthcareorganizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions.In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you'll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better.

We are seeking a Process Engineer for Nutek Disposables located in McElhattan, PA. This position will be responsible for providing technical leadership on assigned lines with similar technology. With Product Development, Production, Planning, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, and Project Engineering, provides technical leadership and support to achieve required new products and product improvements; manufacturing cost and quality improvements; and manufacturing equipment utilization, reliability, speeds, scrap rates, and efficiency goals.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Observes all safety rules and uses the proper safety equipment at all times.

• Works closely with Production, Planning, QA, and Maintenance to meet daily production goals, priorities, coverage and special projects.

• Ensures material variances are within normal limits.

• Reviews spare parts usage monthly for trends and opportunities.

• Provides technical leadership for continuous improvement projects on his/her assigned lines for improvements in efficiency, scrap, speeds, quality, and safety.

• Leads and/or assists PD and QA on new product/process improvement and material trials on his/ her assigned production lines while minimizing production impacts.

• Maintains, audits, and updates as needed "Good Run" documentation, ensuring process conditions and measurements are defined, documented, and shared with operators.

• Ensures critical process parameters are monitored and followed.

• Reviews product specifications and BOM's for accuracy.

• May lead the process definition on new production lines and major equipment and the start up, ensuring all process "Good Run" conditions and measurements are defined, documented, and shared with operators.

• Flexibility to meet the business needs of a 24/7 operation.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering.

• Prefers knowledge and experience in the following: high-speed paper converting, web-based film/paper/non-woven fabric manufacturing operations, high speed web handling, glue application systems, ultrasonic bonding, mechanical bonding, embossing, die cutting, fiber handling, dust control, injection molding, root cause analysis, lean manufacturing, and DMAIC Methodology.

• Has strong computer proficiency with MS Office, Minitab, SAP, statistics, and design of experiments software.

• Has exposure to production results reporting systems, SCADA software, and Manufacturing Execution Systems.

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities

• Paid time off (three-week minimum)

• Medical, dental and vision starting day one

• 401(k) with employer match

• Paid parental leave

• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)

• Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)

• Tuition assistance

• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums

• ...and more!

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.