Process Development Engineer

Epsan Plastik San. Tic. A.Ş

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Polymer Engineering.
• Minimum 2-5 years of experience in R&D units preferably in engineering plastics and twin screw extruder process/operations.
• Lean Manufacturing and 6 Sigma methodology experience.
• Preferably having knowledge of using Minitab.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Competent in teamwork, strong analytical approach, enable a learning approach to solve problems.
• Having high reporting, analysis, and follow-up skills.
• Agile, and proactive planning skills.
• Residing or to be residing in Bursa.

Responsibilities

• To optimize processes and perform scale-up calculations for products developed in the T&I department, through pilot production conducted by the Process Development department, preparing the product for production lines.
• To ensure systematic information flow between the T&I and Production departments.
• To research scale-up methodologies, extrusion process parameters, screw designs, and new production technologies, and ensure their adaptation to production.
• To engage in standardization efforts in processes, perform process alignment between lines, and implement improvement projects accordingly.
• To prepare trial production for activities related to scale-up, process development, and product improvement, request and follow up on planning, and ensure the execution of trial productions.
• In the case of customer complaints/notifications, to collaborate with relevant departments in identifying root causes of extrusion process-related errors.
• To collaborate with relevant departments in identifying root causes of extrusion process-related errors based on feedback from Quality Control and Production departments.