Process 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:

Implement and facilitate continuous improvement activities. Evaluates work processes to determine strategies and programs, which provide greater productivity and efficiency of company functions by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work in support of implementing and ensuring the success of critical continuous improvement initiatives, with a focus on long term sustainability.
• Deliver critical project results by leading or mentoring key projects.
• Utilize world class problem-solving tools such as Six Sigma and Lean methodologies to ensure the success of project goals.
• Train (both formally in a classroom setting and informally) and mentor other employees in the use of these world class practices.
• Consult and communicate with operations to identify best practices within all facilities and make others aware of improvement opportunities.
• Gather information to evaluate current work processes in order to determine the flow of work, time requirements, costs, and duration.
• Develop strategies and programs that improve the productivity and efficiency of the various work processes of the company,
• Apply various industrial engineering problem solving and productivity techniques to evaluate the improvement of recommended strategies and programs.
• Develop and coordinate programs to recognize and reward groups or individuals for suggestions and actions related to process improvement.
• Facilitate employee teams to build cohesiveness and improve the overall results of the respective teams' tasks
• Act as the central CI contact for all Plant Process Engineers (PPEs). Meet and communicate frequently with PPEs.
• Develop the Critical-to-Yield (CTY) process and linkages with the BOS.
• Coordinate work and improvement strategies to improve yield across plants and the value stream.
• Define appropriate processes for improving yield. Projects may be done as A3, Green Belt projects, Black Belt projects; or could be done by the Process Engineer.

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 PTC Quality Management System and its policies, procedures, and work instructions as applicable to the job or function being performed