Sheet Process Development Engineer
Posted on: 1 Mar 2021
Springfield, MA
Job Description
Responsibilities
* This is a Sheet Process Development Engineer position located in Springfield, MA. Plan & conduct development activities including the specification / design of new equipment and the establishment of new operating parameters from pilot scale testing through commercialization for innovation, capacity expansion, cost reduction, and quality improvement programs.
* Lead efforts to develop state-of-the-art technologies with significant product quality improvement, capacity expansion and cost reduction implications, by utilizing knowledge in the areas of polymer rheology, polymer processing, extrusion, mixing, fluid mechanics and advanced melt flow computational methods.
* Plan & conduct development activities to provide process support for new product development programs from pilot scale testing through commercialization.
* Provide technical support as needed to manufacturing and customer operations for process and quality issues through troubleshooting and process optimization using engineering and statistical analysis and basic equipment operating knowledge.
* Provide project support as a Technical or Process Representative or Leader in both Design & Development and New Facility Projects.
* Interface with Manufacturing, Business, Marketing, customers and external contacts
Qualifications
* A proven track record in the design, development and implementation of new technology for film and sheet extrusion systems. Candidate must be a self-starter, driven by the discovery and implementation of the latest polymer processing technologies.
* Preferred: Knowledge in the design and development of polymer processing machinery, focusing on extrusion, mixing, sheet forming and web/roll handling.
* Knowledge of polymer material science; solid state properties, rheology, fluid mechanics.
* A strong background in the principles of Process Engineering including scale-up concepts, process analysis and control, statistical methods, transport phenomena and thermodynamics.
* Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a team.
* Attention to detail and good written and verbal communication skills.
* Strong commitment to task and ability to organize / prioritize and execute assignments in a high activity environment.
* Willingness to accommodate significant travel to execute major responsibilities.
* Ideal candidate will have a degree in Polymer / Chemical / Mechanical Engineering and 5 years of relevant industrial experience
Eastman Chemical
Kingsport, TN
Eastman Chemical Company operates as an advanced materials and specialty additives company worldwide. The company’s Additives & Functional Products segment offers specialty coalescent, specialty and commodity solvents, paint additives, and specialty polymers; hydrocarbon and rosin resins; insoluble sulfur and anti-degradant rubber additives; performance resins; amine derivative-based building blocks; heat transfer and aviation fluids; organic acid-based solutions; and metam-based soil fumigants, thiram and ziram based fungicides, and plant growth regulators. It serves the transportation, consumables, building and construction, animal nutrition, crop protection, energy, personal and home care, and other markets.
Its Advanced Materials segment provides co-polyesters, cellulose esters, polyvinyl butyral (PVB) sheets, specialty PVB intermediates, and window and protective films, and aftermarket applied film products for value-added end uses in the transportation, consumables, building and construction, durable goods, and health and wellness markets. The company’s Chemical Intermediates segment offers Olefin and acetyl derivatives, ethylene, and commodity solvents; primary non-phthalate and phthalate plasticizers, and niche non- phthalate plasticizers; and methylamines and salts higher amines and solvents to the industrial chemicals and processing, building and construction, health and wellness, and agrochemicals.
Its Fibers segment provides cellulose acetate tow, triacetin, cellulose acetate flake, and acetic anhydride for use in filtration media primarily cigarette filters; natural and solution dyed acetate yarns for use in consumables, and health and wellness markets; and wet-laid nonwoven media, specialty and engineered papers, and cellulose acetate fibers for transportation, industrial, agriculture and mining, aerospace, personal hygiene, and consumables markets. Eastman Chemical Company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee.
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IndustryConsumers goods
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No. of Employees14, 500
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