Senior Chemical Manufacturing Engineer

Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC • Full-time • Hopkins, South Carolina, United States • 2m ago

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

Objectives of this role

Work with production planning and operations to ensure the safe manufacture of nuclear fuel for power plants
Analyze existing systems and processes and identify value-added and non-value-added activities to solve design challenges
Evaluate new and existing processes, equipment, and materials as an input for scheduling methods, performance metrics, and financial standards
Uphold the company's reputation by delivering innovative solutions while adhering to commitments made to government regulators

Responsibilities

Identify opportunities for preventing waste and inefficiency during production
Research and test design ideas to determine feasibility, utilizing lean manufacturing, kaizen and Six Sigma to formulate and support innovation, corrective actions, and improvements
Design and develop robust manufacturing concepts to simplify and improve processes and ensure best practices
Create and maintain required product specifications, preventative maintenance, and procedures for manufacturing processes
Work with quality engineering to disposition material that has deviated from normal manufacturing processes
Collaborate with manufacturing areas upstream and downstream of your processes to ensure timely product flow through the manufacturing floor
Track Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for your assigned areas, and drive changes to help improve OEE
Work with area manager to track Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and implement process improvements to help eliminate scrap and rework processes in your area(s)

Required skills and qualifications

Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (chemical preferred)
3-5 years experience
In-depth understanding of lean manufacturing principles
Hands-on experience building small prototypes
Proficiency with analytical tools, workflow time studies, and process balancing
Ability to collaborate with program managers, manufacturing leads, customers, and functional leads, and to provide daily direction and guidance to other process engineers, and operators
Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Preferred skills and qualifications

Nuclear experience preferred, but not required

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

Safety and Quality
Integrity and Trust
Customer Focus and Innovation
Speed and Passion to Win
Teamwork and Accountability

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being. In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

Competitive Salary
Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
Paid Vacations and Holidays
Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
Educational Reimbursement Program
Employee Referral Program

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

EOE of Minorities / Females / Vets / Disability.

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