Manufacturing Process Engineer

Overview

About Berry

Harnessing the strength in our diversity and industry-leading talent of 40,000+ employees across more than 250 global locations, we develop, design, and manufacture innovative products with an eye toward the circular economy. At Berry Global, we believe in the extraordinary power of people and their unique talents, experiences, and perspectives that help shape a shared future of innovation, inspiration, and influence. Every employee at Berry Global has the opportunity to make their mark on our company and the world around us. Together, we champion a people-first culture that cultivates individual growth, diversity, and collaboration, unleashing our collective strengths to forge a path to greater success for our company, people, and planet. Are you ready to Make Your Mark at Berry? For more information, visit our website , or connect with us on LinkedIn or X.

Responsibilities

Position Summary: The Manufacturing Process Engineer is responsible for the support & optimization of manufacturing processes and equipment operations within an injection molding manufacturing environment. This key role has a direct impact on product quality, production capability, operating costs and overall safety through technical leadership and innovation. The Manufacturing Process Engineer works as a part of a cross functional team to achieve performance goals, and to drive continuous improvement throughout the process.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain manufacturing processes and systems for a food grade plastics injection molding environment.
• Develops product and process capability, performance measurements, control systems, quality standard.
• Uses critical thinking and problem-solving methodologies for issue resolution and process improvement. These may include utilizing such tools as statistical methods, Pareto charts, flow charting and failure mode effects analysis and other relevant methodologies (Six Sigma, SPC, Designed Experiments, etc...).
• Ensures compliance with all corporate and plant safety policies
• Provides leadership direction, coaching, and training for all process team
• Plan and direct the efforts of the process technicians in investigating and resolving manufacturing or quality issues, making recommendations for preventive action, optimizing current products and processes and commercializing new products
• Establish and maintain a process and quality assurance audit function to ensure compliance to standards and
• Develop corrective action plans and systems
• Direct efforts in gaining and maintaining knowledge of trends in the industry that lead to improvements in product quality, product consistency, process efficiency or cost reductions
• Work with the plant teams to define process specifications, which include machinery set-ups, operating conditions, set points, tolerances, processing procedures and packaging specifications, based on a strong understanding of customer
• Assist in preparation of capital expenditure requests to improve existing operations, increase efficiencies, improve product quality or commercialize new
• Serves as a resource on plant technologies, control systems, and raw
• Initiates and assists with implementation of process control improvements using DMAIC planning process.
• Support the effective implementation of investment projects approved for capacity or facility expansion and
• Ensures plans are in place to meet all performance indicator targets/goals.
• May include other responsibilities as assigned
  
  

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 7 years in process, maintenance, or operations roles in a manufacturing environment preferred
• Experience in injection molding and/or automation is a substantial
• Self-driven, motivated and capable.
• Competency in employee engaged people
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving
• Excellent interpersonal effectiveness to support our team-based culture
• Must possess a passion for excellence and the desire to succeed