Senior Process Engineer - Mold / Tooling

Summary:
The Senior Process Engineer is responsible for providing day-to-day production support, maintaining process documentation, implementation and monitoring of process controls, identifying and resolving process inefficiencies, and supporting scaleup and development to target new business.
Essential Functions:

• Maintains safety, product quality/yield, and manufacturing effectiveness through daily troubleshooting and resolution of process difficulties working in a cross-functional team environment.
• Optimizes manufacturing processes to provide sustainable gains in cost effectiveness and product performance through capital projects, statistical analysis, designed experiments, and procedural changes.
• Works collaboratively with the R&D and Operations teams to improve existing products, develop new manufacturing processes, and resolve difficult technical/quality issues. Leads where appropriate.
• Works with customers to resolve technical/quality issues and provide special products.
• Starts-up new products and equipment and supervises installation, troubleshoots initial production, ensures new processes and products meet requirements, documents and transfers to production.
• Coordinates and manages capital projects from planning through completion. This may include project charter and business case creation, vendor selection, and development of equipment specifications, as well as equipment installation, startup, commissioning, and qualification.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
• Minimum 4 plus years; prefer 5-7 years demonstrated professional level engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with molding processes and/or mold tooling design and maintenance(REQUIRED)
• Proven record of strong project management, organizational, and time management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Self-starter with strong leadership and demonstrated problem-solving abilities
• Strong understanding of DOE and related statistical tools

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
• Experience with calender and/or flatbed lamination processes
• Experience in new product and/or process development
• Six Sigma Green/Black Belt certification and/or Shainin Red X certification
• Knowledge of application development and quality systems tools including SPC, FMEA, Process Flow Charting, and ISO/TS-16949 quality systems

ITAR Standards Apply. Viable candidates must have permanent residence or US Citizenship
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Additional Qualification Details: No additional requirement needed
Who We Are and What We Are All About:
Rogers Corporation makes tomorrow's innovations possible. Help build a cleaner, safer and more connected world with a career at Rogers, where we make tomorrow's innovations possible. We rely on a talented workforce to develop our cutting edge, market-leading material technologies. Our global team develops innovative specialty materials and components that enable technology in a wide array of high-growth markets. Our customers expect high performance and reliability, so we are always looking for people who can improve processes, get results and represent a best-in-class organization. People are at the heart of all our operations, and we encourage our employees to act with integrity, creativity and excellence to help drive results worldwide.
Why Work for Rogers:
It is our commitment to get "Results, but Results the Right Way." Rogers offers an exceptional work environment and a value-driven culture modeled by leadership. Employees have access to developmental opportunities as well as top-notch benefits and incentive programs. Come join a winning team!
Rogers Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals, as well as other protected groups.
About Rogers Corporation:
At Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG), we're changing how the world uses technology. We are a global leader in materials technology and manufacturing, producing engineered materials to power, protect and connect our world. With nearly 200 years of materials science and engineering experience, Rogers delivers high-performance solutions that enable global Advanced Electronics Solutions and Elastomeric Material Solutions, as well as other technologies where reliability is critical. Rogers enables the world's leading innovators to achieve greater performance, speed to market and reliability through our renowned technical solutions support, problem-solving and application engineering capabilities. Rogers delivers market-leading solutions for energy-efficient motor drives, vehicle electrification and alternative energy, sealing, vibration management, and impact protection in mobile devices, transportation interiors, industrial equipment and performance apparel, wireless infrastructure and automotive safety and radar systems. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona (USA), Rogers operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, China, Germany, Belgium, Hungary and South Korea, with joint ventures and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit .