Process Engineer

Join INVISTA as a Chemical Process Engineer at our Seaford, Delaware site.

Since 1939, the INVISTA Performance Solutions Seaford site continues to be a world class manufacturing facility with ~ 135 employees, which manufactures Nylon 6,6 staple fiber.

As a Process Engineer at INVISTA, you will Provide "Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices" (RAGAGEP) to drive effective and efficient change.

An ideal candidate will be a solid team player with the ability to work independently in an efficient and effective manner creating value-adding results, dedicated to excellence and continuous improvement, and sense of urgency to achieve site objectives.

What You Will Do


* Learning and owning the site's polymer extrusion process.


* Driving site transformational efforts through risk adjusted economics, engineering controls, and best practices.


* Evaluating and optimizing production equipment for improving efficiency.


* Working with the team to ensure the site maintains robust raw material ingredient inspection process.


* Serving as a R&D resource to identify new process technologies/ engineering controls that can be leveraged for operational improvements.


* Communicating and working with various operational, environmental, maintenance, and engineering levels in a team environment, yet be self-motivated and accomplish individual goals and commitments.


* Learning and understanding current resource systems (i.e., Pi Vision, Power BI, Seeq) for identifying key process indicators/ metrics and effectively communicate associated trends to internal customers and stakeholders.


* Utilizing statistical process control methodologies to make data driven process decisions.


* Demonstrate advanced technical skills, attention to detail, analytical, math skills, and ability to quickly assess and solve problems.


* Utilizing technology tools such as MS Outlook Microsoft Office Experience (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Projects) and other technology platforms (i.e., Power BI, PQM, LMS, Minitab, etc.)


* Managing and driving effective change initiatives.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's Degree or higher in Chemical Engineering or STEM discipline and two (2) or more years' engineering experience


* Experience with designed experiments and/or process simulations


* Experience with computer-based data analysis methodologies

What Will Put You Ahead


* Applied experience with polymer composition and extrusion processing


* Experience in a Manufacturing or Petrochemical industry


* Experience in Nylon/ Polyester industry


* Experience applying or using Six Sigma/ Lean manufacturing


* Project management experience


* Applied experience with Design of Experiment (DOE)


* Experience supervising or leading a team

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