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The panel process and optics (PPO) team crafts and develops groundbreaking display technologies to support Apple’s phenomenal product line. This includes total optimization & integration of display materials, optical systems, and processes to deliver outstanding optical, mechanical, and reliability performances. The team features a collaborative and hands-on environment that cultivates engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation. As part of the Apple design and development team you will be working with some of the smartest and most hardworking people in the field, and will be chipping in to exciting new products that will touch the lives of millions and enrich your career with invaluable experience. We are looking for a skilled process engineer with a proven track record of process implementation, optimization, control and sustaining as applied to prototyping products that have groundbreaking optical applications. More specifically, we are looking for an engineer who has experience working with polymers and adhesives, dispense processes used in their application and the different types of systems used in their curing. It is a strong advantage for this candidate to have experience in tooling design for process cells, material carriers and sophisticated optical test systems. It would also be desirable to have experience in the use of optical test systems, data analysis and a background in process monitoring. More broadly, we are looking for an engineer who has experience working in a highly technical and highly flexible, low volume manufacturing environment. A successful candidate will work within a multi-functional team and with external vendors to design, develop, and support process and tooling development efforts for our next-generation processes and supporting tools/equipment. Key Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability in process design and implementation utilizing Six Sigma concepts and LEAN concepts
• Direct experience in the manufacture of optical products, where transition from development into volume manufacturing occurred
• Responsible for or direct involvement in the standardization of documentation transitioning from development into a manufacturing environment
• Experienced in optical molding of polymers holding tolerances critical to efficient performance in an optical system
• Experienced in the application and use of optical test systems for defining and monitoring key performance characteristics
• Experience in glass processing techniques and methods of process monitoring and control
• Experience in fundamental failure analysis methodology to derive a root cause of failure
• Knowledge of solid modeling tools and engineering documentation
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid teamwork and leadership skills
• Willingness and ability to travel

Description Optimize design of multilayer lamination processes involving glass and polymer optical components, optical instrument optimization and process development - Assist team in defining critical characteristics for prototype product and assembly line processes, identifying sources of variation, methods for control of identified variation leading to performance improvements - Identify and source key equipment that enables more capable processes and/or higher capacities to meet Apple’s business plans - Design, fabricate and qualify part carriers to enable capacity improvements on the prototype assembly line - Design, fabricate and qualify equipment interface tooling that enables more capable processes, better ergonomics and/or higher efficiency - Design, fabricate and qualify upgrades to equipment that expand the equipment’s capabilities - Identify and source measurement methods for verifying and controlling critical characteristics and verifying defined specifications based on prototype definition - Utilizing statistical methods to analyze multiple process cells, pulling data from those cells and perform analysis to control sources of variation - Develop and validate Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) metrics and quantitative analytical methods to determine incoming and outgoing quality levels for raw materials and finished goods - Correlate process level data to final component/system performances to define materials-level and in-process specifications - Work with the R&D team to make changes to software to optimize and acquire efficiencies in various test steps - Assist team in recording critical characteristics for prototype product and assembly line processes - Learn and act as a backup for maintenance of the Proto-Assembly Database - Write operational documentation (SOP) and perform training

Education & Experience B.S. degree or M.S. degree, in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent by experience

Career opportunity with the safest, most profitable industrial gases company! Join our team in a challenging role as an Outage / Project Engineer to support our plants. This position will be based in Long Beach, California.

The position may require 25-40% travel depending on assigned work load, with an increase in travel for outage or large project execution. Ability to obtain TWIC card and passport for entry to Canada on work permit is required.

You will be responsible for executing a wide variety of small/medium projects and leading Outages in Steam Methane Reformer operating facilities located in the North America Region for our Hydrogen Division. 

You will be a member of a multi-skilled team to implement EH&S, productivity, and reliability projects rapidly and in coordination with Outages at our facilities. Excellent communication and leadership skills along with a broad knowledge of engineering disciplines is required when dealing with a project load. Acumen occurs from executing several projects in an outage to running entire capital project stack then transitioning to leading entire outage. This position has direct accountability to the HSS Leads in the Gulf Coast and West Coast. 

Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead assigned portion of capital program and manage all engineering and design resources.
• Assist in the development of strategic plans to meet the infrastructure needs of plants.
• Support turnarounds and outages, with potential growth into planning and leading major outages.
• Develop scope for HSS executed debottlenecking, process safety, or infrastructure projects.
• Develop estimates, funding documents, schedule, and ongoing forecasts for plant executed projects within SAP.
• Ensure all projects/outages receive adequate process hazard reviews, Management of Change documentation, ORI’s, and that all recommendations are completed in a timely manner.
• Ensure inherent process safety is adhered to on all project designs.
• Maintain projects and outages on Safety, Budget and Schedule.
• Ensure all projects meet the operability needs of the customer.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience in maintenance and/or engineering disciplines
• Technical degree (chemical engineering or mechanical engineering preferred)
• Professional Engineer (PE) is a plus
• Manufacturing plant operations, maintenance, and capital projects experience
• Role model within Project Engineering function:
  • High ethical standards - unwilling to compromise on worker safety and regulatory compliance requirements
  • Organizational credibility - able to influence business area, engineering and manufacturing managers in decision making process
• Basic understanding of the process technologies employed in HYCO operations a plus.

Benefits: Air Products offers a comprehensive benefits package including paid holidays/vacation, affordable medical, dental, life insurance, 401K plans.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest; however, only those applicants who are being considered for an interview, or are currently employed by Air Products, will be contacted.

To learn more, visit About Air Products.

Air Products is an Equal Opportunity Employer (U.S.) All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status. industrial gases company, providing sustainable offerings and excellent service to all customers.

Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.

The easiest - if not only - way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better - more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.

Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products - and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.

To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.

Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.

Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:

The Plant Process Engineer role is to support the improvement of existing processes, design, install, configure and maintain manufacturing systems to reduce cost, improve equipment reliability, and develop best practices within the production process. The main focus of the process engineer’s work is on maintaining reliable and safe manufacturing systems, while improving quality, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), production rates, efficiencies, yields, costs and changeovers. The process engineer is a part of the plant staff driven to identify, develop and deliver innovative solutions that improve process capability and production volume while maintaining and improving safety and quality standards.

You Will

• Support operations by leading and directing technical activities necessary to solve problems encountered from receiving through shipping
• Ensure the team takes the necessary steps through effective communication and proper documentation to avoid similar problems in the future
• Develop & maintain process guidelines (SOP/SOC) and training programs for the integration of new products and systems
• Continually strive to reduce process variation (improve process capability) to ensure consistent product quality and adherence to manufacturing standards
• Lead cost reduction initiatives through materials, product, and process improvements; assist the project teams to hold brainstorming sessions and develop action plans for activities to reduce utilities consumption, cycle times, scrap, downtime, material usage variance, and direct labor
• Act as a technical resource in Continuous Improvement Tools to plant and PIP project leaders: Lean Manufacturing/Toyota Production Systems, Six-Sigma, 5S/6S, Kaizen Events, Value Stream Maps, DOEs, etc., and assist in their implementation in an efficient manner for individual projects
• Drive the updating of manufacturing standards as a result of performance improvements
• Develop work cell layouts in an effort to optimize material flow and support 5S and visual management initiatives
• Initiate new equipment and technologies to maintain the company’s competitive advantage; including detailed scope definitions with the plant (capabilities, throughput, and equipment controls including function block diagrams, process parameters, and data acquisition requirements), RFQ documents, and execution timeline plans (including facility preparation, installation, H&S, training, production ramp-up, etc.)
• Utilize continuous improvement tools and lean tools to achieve KPI targets. Other targets as assigned

  You Have

• B.S. degree (or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering
• 5-8 years of experience of manufacturing work experience
• Strong preference for increasing experience: High volume, continuous manufacturing environment; Process Engineering / Manufacturing Engineering / CI skills and expertise
• An analytical approach and are a results oriented problem solver
• Excellent verbal & written communication
• Good people skills and are a hands-on individual
• Six sigma green/black belt and knowledge of DOE preferred
• Knowledge of HACCP & FSMA requirementsKnowledge of mistake-proofing and PLC programming is desirable
• Ability to manage multiple priorities or projects simultaneously and keep them progressing to completion Impossible Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

About the Position 

Accountable for all aspects of safety, environmental, quality, production and cost performance for the Goodyear Bayport Chemical plant. Reliable supplier of the HQ to Niagara Falls as raw material for Nailax production. 

Oversee all aspects of plant operation and maintenance to insure a consistent, high quality supply of chemical product is delivered in a timely manner to Goodyear and external customers in North America and around the world. 

To be in charge of and responsible for all related functions of the Bayport chemical plant. To assure scheduled amount of high-quality products are produced safely, efficiently, on time and in conformance with company policy, including and all local, state, and federal regulations. 

This position reports to the Houston Site Manager and will have daily contact with various staff positions of the plant including as well as divisional staff to include finance, purchasing, HR, engineering, environmental, and quality. There are large liabilities associated with non-compliance or operating the plant in an unsafe or incorrect manner. 

• Primary ResponsibilitiesAssure production of product to schedule with appropriate quality.
• Maintain associate accountability and promote that every associate should participate and support safety, environmental and hygiene systems and training to produce Houston products safely and in compliance with work instructions, procedures, policies, laws and regulations.
• Implement and support management systems to minimize environmental impacts of operations and products.
• Assure compliance with all safety and environmental regulations.
• Implement plans to meet and improve First Pass Prime production. Meet Monthly Production tickets for each product line (within +/- 1.0%) and instill a sense of urgency in meeting plant objectives.
• Provide leadership, coaching and development for assigned associates; including the completion of all required training.
• Interact with Chemical Operations and Corporate leadership. Lead and manage Goodyear Bayport managers, including direct and indirect reports.
• Manage capital and expense dollars to stay within operating plan; to include energy.
• Reduce fixed and variable costs to improve financial performance of Bayport product businesses and meet AOP Targets. Focus on resource optimization.
• Review and approve capital budgets before they are submitted to Corporate. Insure expenditures against approved budgets are monitored by the accounting department, as well as engineering department.
• Represent Goodyear to the local community groups and agencies.
• Attend/hold weekly operations meetings, weekly Leadership Team meetings, and monthly Safety, Environmental, Quality and PSM meetings. Develop weekly and/or quarterly communications for the plant newsletter.
• Required Education and ExperienceBS/BA Chemical Engineering or Chemistry. MBA desired.
• Plant operation in chemical industry 5-10 years
• Management of others 2-5 years
• Regulatory requirements of chemical industry
• This position requires technical knowledge of manufacturing.
• This position requires excellent leadership and managerial skills, including the ability to relate to people at all organizational levels from contract labor to the CEO.Advanced communication skills (oral and written) are an absolute necessity, as is excellent organizational ability. Goodyear is one of the world’s largest tire companies. It employs about 63,000 people and manufactures its products in 46 facilities in 21 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.