Process Specialist - Advanced Solutioning (m/f/d)
Job Description
Are you looking to join a world-class manufacturing organization? At Husky TechnologiesTM, we strive to be the best with a strong foundation built on innovation, collaboration and a unique culture with great people. If you are attracted to bold goals, believe in uncompromising honesty, support mutual respect, care about environmental responsibility, have a passion for excellence and a desire to make a positive contribution – we want you to join the Husky TechnologiesTM team!
What we offer
- Excellent benefits package and retirement savings plans as well as life insurance program
- Competitive vacation policy promoting work-life balance
- Challenging career opportunities and growth
- Opportunity to work, innovate and collaborate with passionate people who drive change
- Amazing team – we are the best in the world at what we do!
Husky TechnologiesTM Campus
- Large, beautiful campus with clean, state-of-the-art air-conditioned offices and manufacturing facilities with high air quality, climate control and outstanding safety records
- Onsite fitness and wellness center
- Organized out- and indoor sports activities such as running teams, and bicycle teams
- Access to onsite medical practitioners
- Onsite cafeterias with fresh and healthy meal options
- Free parking
Job Description:
The Process Specialist in the Advanced Solutioning – Processing Team will work mainly to develop and design extruder screws and plasticizing units to increase injection unit throughput and melt quality. In addition, the Process Specialist will work to increase Husky’s processing knowledge primarily in PET Preform injection molding, and potentially in Multilayer or Medical applications.
Responsibilities:
- Identify and quantify relationships between screw designs, process parameters and part quality attributes, through designed experiments on pilot and production scale equipment.
- Innovate and develop through testing new extruder screw designs and processing strategies that improve throughput and maximize melt quality.
- Translate findings into application and processing guidelines and Technology Roadmap inputs.
- Conduct molding system and customer production line audits aimed at improving efficiency and/or increasing Husky knowledge.
- Work with Product Development teams during FMEA to identify processing risks associated with new developments.
- Process development and optimization for new applications and technologies across markets
- Review feasibility of special or exceptional applications and inquiries
- Participate in Product Launch Teams when required.
Qualifications:
- Mechanical or Chemical Engineering Degree preferably at Master’s or PhD level
- An in-depth knowledge of extruder screw design and detailed understanding of the injection molding process.
- Experience with PET processing and preform molding equipment an asset.
- Ability to travel internationally (up to 15 – 20%)
- Flexibility to support high level processing-related customer issues at times with short notice travel.
- Fluency in data analysis is required to make connections between injection molding or part design variables and the measured effect on performance.
- Communication, project management and organization skills
- Able to present and communicate high-level concepts to diverse audiences such as customers, executive, and management teams as well as fellow engineers.
- Strong technical and problem-solving skills, synthesizing information to solve problems.
- Good IT skills (MS Office, MiniTAB statistical software)
- Ability to connect field observations and theoretical model predictions building knowledge of the influence of hardware features on system behavior.
- Fluent in English; other languages are considered an asset.
This positions can be based in Dudelange, Luxembourg or Bolton, Canada.
Husky TechnologiesTM offers a competitive compensation and benefits package and excellent opportunities for growth and advancement. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and respect, value and welcome diversity in our workplace. Husky TechnologiesTM also values being a great place to work and strives to maintain a safe workplace. No agency or telephone inquiries please.