Production Engineer

Syensqo is all about chemistry. We’re not just referring to chemical reactions here, but also to the magic that occurs when the brightest minds get to work together. This is where our true strength lies. In you. In your future colleagues and in all your differences. And of course, in your ideas to improve lives while preserving our planet’s beauty for the generations to come.

The sky is the limit with Syensqo. The aerospace and defense composite materials market continues to face unique sustainability and performance-related demands for aviation materials. For over 50 years, Syensqo scientists have worked closely with our customers to develop aerospace composites for some of the most complex and unique challenges in the aerospace industry. Our aircraft materials are delivering the performance and manufacturing requirements of aerospace and defense customers around the world. The Rock Hill, SC carbon fiber site is recruiting for a Production Engineer to be a part of the Syensqo team in the production of carbon fiber.

Production Engineer – Syensqo Rock Hill

Job Overview and Responsibilities:

The Production Engineer is responsible for providing technician leadership support to ensure currently defined processes meet or exceed production targets in terms of HSE, quality, productivity, cost, and delivery by leading improvement initiatives to optimize processes through the lean/six sigma process.

• Lead Process owner for the production line ensuring process parameters of existing process are in statistical control.
• Leads the direct day-to-day technical troubleshooting for the production line and on-call off hours to assist in resolving production issues.
• Ensures asset utilization metrics such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), cycle time, downtime are tracked, recorded and deviations to standard are being actioned.
• Assures clearly defined procedures and instructions are documented and issued to support the improvements developed by Process Engineers.
• Evaluates daily performance and identifies and eliminates special cause variations.
• Investigates and provides Accounting with detailed explanations of noted production variances on closed production orders.
• Develop systems for measuring and reporting performance vs. productivity and quality goals.
• Leads investigation and defines corrective actions for closed job variances.
• Maintains and manages routing effectiveness, bills-of-materials, routings, scrap, yield, and other aspects of product configuration.
• Works directly with Production Teams to ensure the production line conforms to the Quality System and customer requirements.
• Maintains, develops, and updates all control documents such as standard operating procedures, production logs, and quality records.
• Investigates and proposes corrective actions for quality upsets identified by Quality Engineers.
• Transfers engineering instructions for trials and non-standard products into an executable plan.
• Performs hazard analysis and MHA’s along with HSE&E engineers to develop procedures for non-routine tasks.
• Defines operational guidelines in finite scheduling.
• Share best operational practices with other Production Engineers.
• Supports the Syensqo improvement initiatives. and maintains BOM and routings in SAP.
• Leads continuous/Lean improvement initiatives with a focus on improving customer satisfaction and the efficiency of the production line.