Process Engineer

Mativ is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that connect, protect, and purify our world.

Mativ's facility in Minneapolis, MN is seeking an experienced Process Engineer. The process engineer role is key in our business as a link between Operations, Product and Process development, Quality and Engineering. This position will drive scrap and waste reduction, production improvements, variation reduction, and standardization; taking a hands-on and collaborative approach.

Responsibilities:

• To understand Mativ Conwed manufacturing processes.
• Ensure safety and regulatory compliance.
• Identify and eliminate process variation through detailed data collection analysis and re-engineering.
• Collect and use data to deliver waste reduction, efficiency improvements, continuous improvements.
• Analyze, collect, interpret, compile database reports.
• Perform in-depth data analysis using statistical software and methods.
• Conduct and document Installation qualification (IQ), operations qualification (OQ) and process qualification (PQ) of process machinery and equipment.
• Develop and implement systems that optimize all phases of production processes.
• Produce standard work instructions, process flow diagram in compliance with ISO 9001 guidelines.
• Collaborate with production and engineering teams to ensure satisfactory project design and implementation.
• Provide process and troubleshooting support.
• Provide standard equipment training as necessary.
• Provide presentations to align stakeholders on process development and problem solving work.
• Ability to travel up to 20% domestically
• Additional duties as assigned.

Process and Product Development

• Make recommendations on functional product improvements such as light-weighting, new packaging designs, and/or performance improvements.
• Partner with customers and sales to improve existing products and commercialize new products.
• Perform trials to evaluate and qualify new production processes.
• Collect, record, and transcribe data and complete analysis of the trial results including recommendations.
• Define the standard process conditions (SOC) and materials for new products.
• Identify alternate material sources in the BOM to reduce costs and qualify suppliers.
• Manage the material change process.
• Research and present options for the purchase of new manufacturing technology.
• Create ERP items

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS in Engineering (preferably chemical, polymer/plastic, or mechanical)
• 3 years of manufacturing experience
• Hands-on plastics extrusion/processing or continuous process experience preferred
• Data acquisition, SPC, analysis of variance, trend analysis
• Knowledge of experimental methods such as correlation analysis and DOE
• Experience in applying scientific methods such as PDCA or DMAIC
• Project management experience
• Experienced in polymer extrusion, web handling, slitting, winding of rolled media is preferred
• Knowledge in the calculation of OEE
• Statistical software tools such as Minitab

Salary Range: $80,000 to $110,000

WHAT WE OFFER

Mativ benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, competitive in the marketplace, and affordable.

ABOUT MATIV

Mativ Holdings, Inc. is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The company connects, protects, and purifies the world every day through a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We manufacture on three continents and generate sales in nearly 100 countries through our family of business-to-business and consumer product brands. The company’s two segments, Filtration & Advanced Materials and Sustainable & Adhesive Solutions, target premium applications across diversified and growing end-markets, from filtration to healthcare to sustainable packaging and more. Our broad portfolio of technologies combines polymers, fibers, and resins to optimize the performance of our customers’ products across multiple stages of the value chain. Our leading positions are a testament to our best-in-class global manufacturing, supply chain, and materials science capabilities. We drive innovation and enhance performance, finding potential in the impossible.