Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet.  More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Job Description

Position Overview:

This position will be responsible for all aspects of injection stretch blow mold samplings & qualification services for new products, improvements to existing products and all validation processing for new and rebuilt molds within the functional group. This position will liaison with all plant technical roles to support machine startups with new and repaired molds, protocol validation processing, and to assist in corrective actions, and/or improving process/tooling issues. In addition, the Process Engineer will hold the responsibility for process optimization and recommendations for mold modification to new tooling to meet dimensional and visual specifications. The Process Engineer is responsible for documenting and communicating best practices throughout each manufacturing operation, working closely with the plant process technicians and quality engineers.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for all aspects of mold samplings & qualification services on new, replacement or rebuilt tools.
• Optimize the molding process to obtain dimensional limits at the designed cycle time or less as identified with the approved process capability and validation.
• Create and maintain standardized Master Process Sheets for defined injection or blow molding process.
• Attend new project meetings, design reviews and tool specification meetings as required.
• Trains salary and hourly plant personnel in technical areas as directed by corporate and plant management, including machine processing and tool design change recommendations.
• Provide Manufacturing Support to assist in solving production issues related to machine, process, tooling/design or various combinations as required.
• Support plants with equipment, process, capability studies and tooling qualifications/validations as needed.
• Perform and establish the tools and equipment qualification approval at the vendor locations.
• Establish and maintain data resource information relative to packaging, machinery and processes.
• Facilitates, Documents and Communicates that share best practices throughout all manufacturing facilities.
• Design of Experiments (DOE’s) and Research and Development (R&D) process capability studies to ensure compliance to standards and specifications and processes.
• Create and maintain the Master Process of Adjustments (POA’s) for process and packaging lines baseline settings.
• Develop organizational technical capabilities in the organization by implementing technology platform training, building technical collaboration networks and mentoring technical team members.
• Maintain a current database of or customer’s injection or blow mold tooling and process conditions. This should include all aspects of their production systems (i.e. Molds, Hot Runners, Drivers and Injection or Blow Molding machines).
• Creates and maintains the training program in the areas of machine operation, process control and machine troubleshooting standards.
• Works with and leads the corporate and plant quality teams to improve process operations and product development along with corporate R&D, Innovation and Commercial Team.
• Make recommendations for tooling and/or equipment upgrades or replacement based on collected data from engineering studies.
• Participate with Plant Operations teams to reduce scrap percentage rates and improve line efficiencies.
• Create and maintain division level technical specifications, standards and documentation for Operations Engineering department.
• Communicate with plants on a regular basis to understand long term project performance and support resolution of plant issues.
• Leads and preforms in house training on injection or blow mold tooling maintenance in alignment with the respective vendors. Training will include Safety, Operations, Process Control and Maintenance functions.
• Provide assessment of plant technical teams and identification of training or hands-on experience to help close gaps as required
• Act as technical liaison between Operations Engineering and Customer to determine the system requirements for all Amcor production lines.
• Consider whether new procedures must be developed. Identifies, defines and analyses alternate courses of action.
• Flexible work schedule 50% to 75% travel potentially required.

Education and Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred or equivalent experience
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to understand, influence, drive and negotiate with internal and external customers.
• Strong management, communication and people skills required to influence and manage multiple resources, most of which do not report to the process engineer.
• Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Minimum of (5) five years’ processing experience in the plastics packaging industry desired
• Experience with SPC is beneficial

This individual must possess broad experience and/or knowledge in the areas of:

• Injection Stretch (one step) or Blow Mold machine functionality and troubleshooting
• Hydraulic circuity and process control
• Hands on ability to operate injection or blow mold machine platforms
• Possess mold and hot runner design experience and functionality testing including multi-material systems
• Process fundamentals and optimization
• Quality Assurance Systems
• System interfaces and interactions for maximum performance
• Customer Service orientation along with high degree of professionalism.

The starting salary for this position is expected to be between $115,000 to $128,000; however, base pay offered may vary within the full salary range $100,000 to $140,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base pay information is based on national averages and a geographic differential may be applied based on work location. Position may also be eligible for Amcor’s Management Incentive Plan / Sales Incentive Plan, which is an annual bonus program based on business and individual performance, as well as medical coverage and other health and welfare benefits.

The salary range provided reflects the anticipated base pay for this role at the time of this posting. This range is applicable to positions performed in jurisdictions with pay transparency requirements, including CA, CO, CT, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NV, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WA, Washington DC, as well as remote roles that may be performed in these locations. Compensation for roles performed outside of these jurisdictions may vary. The Company reserves the right to modify this range at any time.

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click on the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" Poster. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please call 224-313-7000 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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Compensation

The starting salary for this position is expected to be between $0 to $0; however, base pay offered may vary within the full salary range $0 to $0 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base pay information is based on national averages and a geographic differential may be applied based on work location. Position may also be eligible for Amcor’s Management Incentive Plan / Sales Incentive Plan, which is an annual bonus program based on business and individual performance, as well as medical coverage and other health and welfare benefits.

The salary range provided reflects the anticipated base pay for this role at the time of this posting. This range is applicable to positions performed in jurisdictions with pay transparency requirements, including CA, CO, CT, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NV, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WA, Washington DC, as well as remote roles that may be performed in these locations. Compensation for roles performed outside of these jurisdictions may vary. The Company reserves the right to modify this range at any time.

Benefits

When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees

• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location

• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program

• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits

• Paid Parental Leave

• Retirement Savings Plan with company match

• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)

• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)