Plant Engineer

PTC is a leading manufacturer and marketer of welded and cold drawn mechanical steel tubing and tubular shapes, plated bar and tubing, and fabricated parts and precision components.

We at PTC value our employees’ health and wellness. We offer the following:

• FREE Healthcare
• HSA option
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Dependent & Spouse Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness & Accident Coverage
• 401K plan with company match
• Referral Bonus
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Annual college scholarship available for children & grandchildren of PTC employees
• Tuition Reimbursement eligibility

Job Summary:

As a member of the Engineering Department, the Plant Engineer provides engineering support and guidance to ensure safe, reliable, cost effective and timely production. They will be curious and inquisitive to become experts in the various manufacturing processes and equipment across their plant(s). While solving problems, they will identify new key information and conclusions, and ensure those findings are recorded in a meaningful way that expands the organization's library of technical information. When problems interrupt production, they will identify and drive the implementation of short- and long-term solutions that address the root cause of the problem. They will identify improvement opportunities and support the development of project justifications and scopes. Plant Engineers may lead projects as required to improve plant performance. They will be leaders in the office and on the manufacturing floor to model our core values of Safety First, Customer Intimacy (for internal and external customers), Operational Excellence, Learning Organization, Respect for Others, and Profit-Motivated.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Safely, quickly and logically solve mechanical and/or electrical problems, or if unable, identify and mobilize internal or external resources to do so.
• Identify the root cause(s) of poor process quality/equipment failures and implement corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence.
• Utilize engineering software, such as AutoDesk AutoCAD (Electrical or Mechanical) or AutoDesk Inventor, to create, store and communicate engineering concepts, designs, and analyses.
• Work alongside Operations, Maintenance and Quality to learn their standard means of operating, maintaining, and measuring process/product quality data for each machine (asset) and associated operation(s). Develop and review Engineering Process Definitions and Asset Detail Files to store this information in a way that can be compared across the organization and standardized.
• Produce and maintain asset documentation, including specification sheets, manuals, bill of materials (BOMs), and drawings (layout, assembly, detail, P&ID, electrical) through the asset lifecycle.
• Scope and execute trials to characterize manufacturing process variables and cost.
• Work with Operations, Maintenance, and Quality to identify process/equipment improvements and the projects that would be required to achieve them.
• Work with Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to develop financial justifications associated with ongoing projects at the plant(s).
• Develop and review Engineering Specifications used to communicate the engineered solution requirements to vendors during the scoping of projects.
• Lead small to medium sized projects from the proposal stage through executive approval, execution and closing stages with an emphasis on detailed documentation, on-time delivery and total spend within the approved budget.
• Develop and review Corporate Engineering Standards, which warehouse the standard engineering design, operating, troubleshooting, and decision-making practices across the organization.
• Follow and enforce the PTC Safety Program – lead by example and be a role model for others.
• Focus on the right busy – there will always be work to be done, and the high priority work is not always the easy work.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time as needed to other sites for best practice sharing
• Performs other duties as assigned.

The incumbent is expected to understand that all employees have a shared responsibility for the quality of products and related services provided to our customers. Duties and Responsibilities are to be carried out in accordance with the PTCA Quality Management System and its policies, procedures, and work instructions as applicable to the job or function being performed.