Senior Process Engineer - St. Louis, MO

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

The Role

 

Responsible for establishing manufacturing process capability for new/reformulated products. Execute equipment qualification, cleaning, and process validation programs. Conduct process improvement studies in the areas of operational productivity, process control, quality processing, employee safety, process yield improvement, and environmental impact in a lean environment. Test new technologies, processes, controls or prototype equipment and support implementation as appropriate to optimize liquid blending systems. Provide indirect supervision of technicians, interns and operators as required.

What You Will Do

 

• Maintains a safe working environment by fully implementing the World Class safety initiatives and culture of STERIS Corporation and enforcing these initiatives at all times.
• Interact with all appropriate departments  to facilitate the introduction of new manufacturing processes or changes to existing manufacturing processes.
• Executes protocols to comply with FDA and ISO requirements for equipment qualification, cleaning, and process validations. Develops protocols, resource requirements and timetables associated with the respective validation requirements.
• Develops plans and schedules for establishing manufacturing process capability of new/ reformulated products. Interfaces with Product Development and Production to bring these processes from the research laboratory through scale-up into full scale manufacturing.
• Responsible for research and testing of new technologies or processes appropriate for support of new/existing product manufacture.
• Works with Project Engineering to obtain approval for Capital Appropriation Requests, design specifications and equipment installation.  Provides support in personnel training, development of manufacturing instructions and start-up of new processes/equipment.

• Resolves specific manufacturing deficiencies through troubleshooting and implementation of corrective actions.
• Responsible for development of lean culture and institution of lean principles.
• Develops and submits written reports including, objective, experimental, compilation of data, engineering analysis, conclusions and recommendations.
• Capable of developing new processes using instrumentation and PLCs to monitor and control engineering systems and equipment.
• Ensure compliance with the Quality System and Design Control requirements.
• Lead Design of Experiments work and process mapping and modeling(Aspen or similar).

What You Will Need to be Successful

 

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or chemical engineering.  
• Minimum of 5 or more years of experience in process engineering, production support and/or batch chemical processing.
• Ability to travel 15%-20% depending on the project.

Preferred Experience

 

• Masters/PHD, preferred. 
• 3 or more years of experience in pilot scale up, preferred.
• Familiarity with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) FDA regulations, and Lean Manufacturing is preferred. 
• Experience with cleanroom systems, preferred.
• Understanding of packaging materials and equipment including filling, closing, secondary and final packaging, preferred.
• Applied experience with flow calculations and energy balancing, preferred.
• Project Management experience, a plus.  Agile experience, preferred.
• Experience working with non-Newtonian fluids, strongly preferred. 
• Experience with scaling processes from lab to production, preferred. 

Skills

 

• Project leadership skills, technical skills and organizational skills required. 
• Must have good communications and interpersonal skills.

What STERIS Will Offer You

 

The opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS couldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. That’s why we share in our success together by rewarding you for your hard work. Hiring people who are in it for the long run with STERIS is our ultimate goal. We do this by providing competitive salaries, healthcare benefits, tuition assistance, paid time off, holidays, matching 401(k), annual merit, and incentive plans.  Join us and help write our next chapter.

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STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention.  WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and se