Process Engineer

Vitro is the largest glass manufacturer in the Western Hemisphere and the largest glass producer in North America.  Vitro’s glass products can be found in some of the most iconic vehicles on the road, in countless buildings and homes around the world, and in billions of glass containers produced every year.  With more than 14,000 employees worldwide, we have expanded our global footprint and cemented our leadership role in the industries in which we operate.  At Vitro, we redefine the power of partnership to create value and innovative glass solutions for our customers and communities. Together, we will realize the full potential of glass to shape how we move, build, and live in the future.  Together, we have the power to make more than glass. We can make the future a brighter place for years to come.

We are looking to hire a skilled process engineer to oversee the design and implementation of our wareroom processes. As a process engineer, you will be responsible for developing and implementing process strategies, managing process resources, optimizing current processes, and maintaining process documents. You will become an expert with regards to production equipment, understand how to operate, change the settings, and optimize the equipment. Ultimately, your job is to maintain the efficiency of production in order to reduce costs.

To ensure success as a process engineer you should have extensive experience in process design, excellent technical skills, and high-level analytical skills. A top-class process engineer can analyze a process system and implement simple yet effective changes to boost production.

• Communicating with front line supervisors, production schedulers and process engineers to optimize day to day operational excellence.
• Drafting process ideas to reduce costs and improve production rates.
• Performing risk assessments.
• Designing and testing process upgrades and new process systems.
• Ensuring processes comply with safety and quality standards.
• Performing process simulations and troubleshooting issues.
• Performing optimization tests.
• Developing routines and best practices to ensure product quality.
• Developing standardized operating instructions for the upgrades process.
• Providing the Product Manager with process documents and standard operating procedures.
• Monitoring upgrades systems.
• Meeting with production managers to assess existing processes.

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.

• Proven work experience as a process engineer.
• Experience with process simulations and standard operating procedures.
• Interpersonal skill set that allows for positive daily interaction with a diverse group of people.
• Lean six sigma knowledge and experience
• Advanced technical skills.
• Analytical thinker.
• Familiarity with state health and safety regulations.
• Ability to project manage.