Process Engineer

**Process Engineer**

Are you inspired by challenging the status quo? Do you thrive in collaborative environments that drive results? If so, Gates could be for you.

Let's simplify it, think belts and hoses. Found in motorcycles, conveyor belts, cars, tractors, blenders, vacuum cleaners, bicycles, & 3D printers just to name a few. Because why not do it all?

**WHAT TO EXPECT**

As an innovation leader, we look for ambitious, forward thinking, open-minded and well-rounded individuals to join our global team.

The Process Engineer sustains, develops, plans, and implements necessary processes and tools to produce and deliver improvements for Operations.

In this position individual is responsible for planning and implementing improvements to the manufacturing processes to better enable factory goals and requirements. This position is expected to be a part of a global approach to Process Engineering to enable consistent engineering, materials, and procedures through all the worldwide factories. As needed, this position serves as a engineer, as an individual contributor, and as a project manager and technical resource to other employees across the operations organization. The individual is expected to deliver results through the organization by driving solutions and improvements, by containing and fixing problems, and by reviewing the current state of the manufacturing operations for opportunities and threats.

The individual will be expected to provide engineering support to Operations at the local level daily and to provide backing to the Process and Product Development activities and rollout introduction as required. This position is expected to be involved in high volume manufacturing and should be able to anticipate the needs of internal and external customers and act in advance of requests.

**Key responsibilities (to name a few)**:

- Supervision and creation of product development processes and methods, trying to find the most appropriate solutions to obtain greater efficiency and that the items have the desired characteristics.
- Define activities related to prototype manufacturing. From planning, manufacturing, packaging, to shipping.
- Maintains product health: monitors and reports product performance and results and performs technical and Development/Technology/Engineering related activities.
- Responsible for continuous improvement. Responsible for making production cost effective, maximizing quality, and using available resources efficiently.
- Specification registration and creation of BOM's in Oracle.
- Provides Process Engineering support for the local operations.
- Executes decision making to solve complex problems involving extensive research, analysis, and evaluation of multiple variables.
- Contributes ideas and analysis of the potential programs to provide added value to Operations.
- Provides on-going support for NTI and NPI activities and rollout support for NTI and NPI programs.
- Contributes to the Global Process Engineering team by supporting requests from other factories and by participating in local and remote phone calls and meetings.

**REQUIRED SKILLS**:

- Provides Process Engineering support for local operations.
- Executes decision making to solve complex problems involving extensive research, analysis, and evaluation of multiple variables.
- Contributes ideas and analysis of the potential programs to provide added value to Operations.
- Provides on-going support for NTI and NPI activities and rollout support for NTI and NPI programs.
- Contributes to the Global Process Engineering team by supporting requests from other factories and by participating in local and remote phone calls and meetings.
- Keeps self-control in hard situations.
- Strong Communication skills
- Problems Solving and decision making.
- Costumer focus (internal and external)
- Negotiation skills
- Creativity, proactivity, and teamwork.
- Problems Solving process.
- Exceptional attention to internal and external customer requests
- Negotiation skills

**WHY GATES?**

Founded in 1911 in Denver, Colorado, Gates is publicly traded on the NYSE. While we might operate in a vast amount of time zones we operate as 'One Gates' and have a common goal of pushing the boundaries of materials science. We invest in our people, bringing real-world experience that enables us to solve our customers' diverse challenges of today and anticipate those of tomorrow.

**WORK ENVIRONMENT**

At Gates, we believe that we are better together. Proximity has been important to our success over the years as there are critical items that are simply better when done together. One of those critical items is efficient collaboration. We cannot underestimate the power of informal conversations and connecting face-to-face with our coworkers.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands and fingers to work with objects, tools, or controls; and use office equipment including computers, telephones, a