Process Engineer Quality

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As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life's essential products to market.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Innovation you can count on. At INVISTA we make the chemicals, polymers, fabrics and fibers that can handle life's toughest demands. License advanced technologies across various value chains. Create new solutions for life's biggest needs. And deliver products and brands incorporated into your clothing, your car, and even your carpet.
As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 value chains help bring many of life's essential products to market.
INVISTA is committed to delivering a world-class level of performance and we are looking for the right candidate, highly motivated and ambitious to join our team. Watch the video to learn more.
Key responsibility of this role is to optimize quality risk for our customers. Your role is to protect our customers based on knowledge of our production processes.
  • Conduct PFMEA (Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) to proactively identify potential failure modes in processes. Prioritize, develop, and execute strategies to mitigate top quality risks based on likelihood and severity.
  • Lead continuous improvement programs/projects aimed at reducing quality risk. Support the operations team in reducing variability in our manufacturing processes
  • Work with the EU commercial team to understand unmet customer needs and translate those into improvement initiatives at our site.
  • Provide effective communication with cross functional teams (operating teams, commercial team, customers, global quality colleagues)

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical field
  • Three (3) or more years manufacturing experience
  • Experience applying PFMEA and other quality core tools in an industrial environment (preferably automotive)
  • Demonstrated problem-solving capability through the application of disciplined problem-solving tools (root cause analysis, 5-why)
  • Demonstrated application of statistical analysis to make decisions and drive actionable strategies
What Will Put You Ahead
  • Experience demonstrating the application of Automotive Quality Core Tools (SPC, MSA, FMEA/CP, APQP, PPAP)
  • Experience demonstrating the application of additional Quality Capabilities (Auditing, Gage R&R, 3L5W, Poka Yoke, VOC, et)
  • Experience demonstrating an ability to analyze large data sets and apply statistics to generate knowledge systems (e.g. dashboards) that present actionable information.
  • Experience demonstrating an understanding and application of economics, value create and risk-based thinking for continuous improvement

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