Gore Fabrics Process Engineer
W.L. Gore
About the Job
Gore is a technology-driven global company built on entrepreneurial innovation, integrity, and teamwork. Through our product leadership, we've been changing lives and changing industries, including medical devices, fabrics, electronics, and manufacturing, for more than 50 years. What can you change by joining Gore? Visit gore.com/change-life to find out.
Job Description
- Be passionate about manufacturing products that are the highest value in their class
- Be energized by working on multinational and cross-functional team efforts
- Recognize the importance of building and maintaining strong interpersonal relationships
- Be excited about creating and driving complex technical projects with multiple global sites
- Developing an intimate understanding of our coating process, equipment, raw materials, and test requirements, and their relationship to end-use performance
- Identifying and driving innovative process and equipment projects for improved safety, cost, quality, capability, and capacity
- Developing collaborative relationships with our partner sites around the world
- Creating and driving project plans, including buy-in and resourcing from multiple locations
- Actively participating in new-product development and technology efforts
- Measuring, understanding, and documenting the science of the process, matching fitness-for-use requirements to process measurements and set points
- Understanding existing quality-control (QC) methods and developing new methods that are appropriate predictors of end-use performance
- Performing development, scale-up, and validation of processes, equipment, and raw materials
- Applying troubleshooting techniques to determine root cause of process concerns associated with high-volume manufacturing
- Transferring process understanding to the production team
- Interacting with raw-material and equipment suppliers
- Managing a workload of multiple technical projects, which includes understanding the associated priority, timelines, and selection rationale for each project
- Bachelor's degree in engineering
- At least 5 years' process engineering experience
- Demonstrated history of identifying critical issues, setting direction and defining actions to address critical issues, and executing against that framework to complete projects
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills, including ability to successfully lead cross-functional or global teams, communicate effectively, and influence others
- Solid knowledge of engineering fundamentals and demonstrated ability to apply them in the course of development, optimization, and troubleshooting activities
- Experience successfully driving large, complex technical projects involving a global team
- Working knowledge of statistical tools such as designed experimentation, process validation, and/or statistical process control (SPC) in manufacturing processes
- Demonstrated problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated history of documenting work appropriately
- Ability to:
- Drive continuous improvement in production processes
- Multitask and prioritize
- Experience with:
- Web-handling processes
- Low-viscosity coating and drying processes
- Textiles and nonwoven materials
- Applying lean manufacturing tools and concepts
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