Port Elizabeth: Process Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Process Engineer to join our team in Port Elizabeth, responsible for managing product interfaces, contributing to engineering change management, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the product interface with product development, contributing to the engineering change management process, while supporting continuous improvement and production.
• Design, implement, and monitor production processes, ensuring feasibility, productivity, and quality of products.
• Follow start-up of all premium wrapping/sewing machines on site to get standards and best practices.
• Prepare initial samples with plant and project teams for final customer according to quality standards and time schedule.
• Put control measures in place to ensure stability of production.
• Examine feasibility of new premium wrapping processes and products, validating improvements before starting production mode.
• Train and coach operators on processes.
• Contribute to improvement of maintenance procedures.
• Propose and implement continuous productivity (SMED, CIG) and quality (scrap) improvement actions concerning injection processes.
• Manage technical processes, parameters, and tooling for relevant processes.
• Set and control process parameters.
• Lead QRCI process to investigate quality concerns caused by process/equipment.
• Integrate ergonomic principles in equipment and plant layout.
• Support maintenance in root cause analysis for equipment failures.
• Review of process flow diagrams.
• Manage product interface with product development.
• Contribute to engineering change process.
• Support continuous improvement activities.
• Define and update cycle times in line with planned Takt times.
• Define product specifications, supporting tooling and equipment buy-off process with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure continuous improvement by capitalising on lessons learnt, providing best practices using available tools.

Requirements

• National Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in automotive and engineering
• Extensive knowledge of material qualities
• FMEA and RFMEA development and maintenance
• BOM management and auditing
• Problem-solving methodology (8D Tool, Six Sigma, etc.)
• Good MS Word and MS Excel skills
• Technically skilled in product and process design
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• International mindset, with the ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
• English required; other languages are a plus

Qualifications

• Formal education/certifications (Bachelor’s, LLB, Matric, etc.)

Salary & Benefits

• Salary range will be discussed during the interview process.

Note: The salary and benefits section was skipped as it was not mentioned in the original job description.