Sr. Process Engineer

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Create value at TC Transcontinental. We have been driving innovation since 1976. With approximately 7400 employees, TC Transcontinental is a North American leader in flexible packaging, a Canadian retail marketing services provider, Canada’s largest printer, and the Canadian leader in French-language educational publishing. Respect, teamwork, performance and innovation are the strong values held by the Corporation and its employees. TC Transcontinental's commitment to its stakeholders is to pursue its business activities in a responsible manner.

We take care of our team, support each other and cultivate a sense of belonging for all.

As a Sr. Process Engineer your typical work will be providing functional and expert knowledge in process management and control on film extrusion applications and equipment. Systematically engineer all aspects of equipment and processes to reach full capability, flexibility and cost efficiency.

Establish projects which are targeted to obtain an effective return on capital investment that meets current and future manufacturing requirements. Establish and prioritize manufacturing process control focused on increasing quality, controlling waste and obtaining maximum line efficiencies that meet or improve budget goals.

Provide technical assessments of plant resources regarding necessary skill levels, training requirements and measurement factors to support the manufacturing processes. Actively contribute to the training and coaching in technical and interaction management skills for maintenance personnel, line operators and supervisors. Assess technical and leadership capabilities to meet current and future requirements.

• Facilitate and foster a culture of safety, wellness and continuous improvement.
• Supports all activities in developing, implementing, and maintaining quality and food safety management system.
• Report any quality and/or food safety problems to personnel of authority to initiate action.
• Problem Solving—Develop specific tests to determine in-depth requirements of process needs and root cause analysis for film extrusion line.
• Decisions—Managers depend on technical and managerial ability to assess department technical needs to meet manufacturing requirements and expansion. Provide direct continuous improvement of efficiencies and successful expansion.
• Technical Guidance—Provide plant maintenance and operations with technical guidance. Provide guidance on contentious improvement to develop their ability to maintain and setup equipment which produces product that meets specifications. Support the TC Transcontinental by providing technical guidance for a better understanding of the Spartanburg Plant manufacturing and packaging process capabilities, both existing and potential.
• Role in Technical Development or Application—Provide a high-level expertise in the development of new and existing products, equipment requirements to manufacture these products, equipment requirements to manufacture these products and the development of the processes and controls.
• Task Leadership—Manage projects to meet cost and timing commitments.
• Contacts/Level of Interaction—Maintain direct level of contact with suppliers to ensure their capabilities are in line with product and process requirements. Support interaction with operations and quality in setting material product and quality specifications.
• Interaction Management Skills—Utilize interaction management skills to listen to operators, maintenance technicians, supervisors and department managers needs and concerns. Both form a technical, department and plant development. Utilize information to provide plant leadership and participation in teams ranging from design to product development. Provide coaching to operators and technicians on interacting with plant leadership and engineers. Provide coaching to plant leadership on good manufacturing practices and interaction.

• 4-year college degree preferred or equivalent experience. Engineering degree preferred.
• Lean manufacturing…