Process Engineer - Hard Grind - Concentration: Machining

Overview

Kyocera International, Inc. is hiring a Process Engineer at our Hendersonville, NC facility!

$5000 Retention Bonus!

Pay Range: $69,000 - $100,000/year (Actual base pay based on factors such as relevant experience, education, market, qualifications, and skills).

With nearly 80,000 employees globally, Kyocera is a leading manufacturer of high-tech ceramics in various industries, including aerospace, automotive, Medical applications, and semiconductor processing. Our innovative materials are found in everything from smartphones to space shuttles.

Look at our PERKS!

• Competitive pay, benefits, and hours
• 120 hours of vacation accrued per year to start (3 weeks/year for regular 8-hour shifts)
• 10 Paid Holidays per year
• 401(k) with company match
• Pension
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible schedules
• Tuition reimbursement

We have a long-tenured staff and a strong company mission with excellent benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Paid time off to Volunteer, paid Leave options, Tuition Reimbursement, an employer-paid Pension, and a 401(k) with both Roth and a healthy company match. Our larger locations feature onsite gyms, walking tracks, exercise rooms, and employee gardens.

We strive to have a diverse workforce from all backgrounds, including minorities, women, and veterans, who bring their experience to support the innovation and quality Kyocera is known for.

Role Overview:

As a Process Engineer
, you will drive improvements in production processes, implement new systems, and lead projects that enhance safety, efficiency, and quality. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, including production, facilities, and supply management, to ensure optimal performance and innovation.

• Networks with other department personnel (including other engineers and supervisors) to tackle procedural and quality issues related to producing and delivering quality products
• Supports, implements, and maintains methods, operation sequences, and processes in manufacturing the final product. Uses projects to improve the safety, efficiency, and quality of various manufacturing processes
• Observe the starting, running, and upgrading of manufacturing processes to maximize productivity without sacrificing quality requirements. May work closely with an outside vendor to set up new equipment
• Designs, installs, and commissions new production processes and tools. Hands-on knowledge and design experience are utilized daily
• Creates work instructions and associated process documentation and updates existing documents following change order and revision control requirements
• Ensure all production personnel understand new processes or any process changes correctly. May train production operators on new processes and solve problems at the user level to ensure ease of use and accuracy
• Analyze problems and address RCCAs using analytical methods
• Makes observations and measurements directly, as well as collects and interprets data from the existing production line to adjust and correct
• Takes ownership of assigned projects and manages results from start to finish with guidance from a Senior Engineer, Engineering Manager, or production manager. May manage technicians or other engineers on projects
• Ensuring safety is a priority on all tools and production activity. May train operators on safe machine practices in all activities
• Works with various team members, including facilities, EHS, quality, supply management, and production
• May be cross trained in a variety of skills, including inspection, testing, project management, programming, gauge R&R, drawings, and metrology

• Requires a 4-year degree in Engineering and 2+ years of engineering experience in a production environment with process and equipment
• 2+ years of experience in a production engineering environment with process and equipment
• Hands-on mechanical and analytical experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with ceramic or industrial parts processing (preferred)
• Knowledge of SPC, FMEA, Lean, and Six Sigma principles
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Office Suite, Auto Cad, and/or Solid Works, with intermediate skills in Solid
  
  CAM preferred
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills to interface with customers and outside vendors and to generate and deliver presentations to internal customers
• Must be eligible to work in an ITAR-regulated environment (U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency required)

The following physical activities are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions and expectations.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to talk or hear, regularly stand, frequently reach with hands and arms, and occasionally stoop,…