AHF Products has a great career opportunity for a Process Engineer at our Lancaster Floor Plant in Lancaster, PA. The Process Engineer is responsible for providing technical services for the Lancaster Floor Plant. These services include process improvement work, daily process support, cost reduction activities, and project management. This position plays a critical role in our Lean and continuous improvement activities. Shift: Day Shift Location: 1067 Dillerville Rd Lancaster PA 17603 ESSENTIAL ... more details
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AHF Products is a leader in innovative flooring products and solutions with a family of strong brands serving the residential and commercial markets. With decades of experience in award-winning wood flooring design, innovation, product development, manufacturing, and service, we improve the quality of people’s lives through great products and a deep commitment to outstanding customer service. We are headquartered in Mountville, Pennsylvania with a global manufacturing footprint employing over 3000 people worldwide.
We believe that business is personal. With a deep-rooted belief in the power of teamwork and trust, we consider our staff, customers, and suppliers as true partners. We pledge to deliver reliable, consistent, and best-in-class products, services, and support. We look for people who aren’t afraid to act on ideas, commit the courage to drive successful outcomes and have fun along the way. If these ideals appeal to you, you are going to want to join our team!
PRIMARY PURPOSE:
AHF Products has a great career opportunity for a Process Engineer at our Lancaster Floor Plant in Lancaster, PA. The Process Engineer is responsible for providing technical services for the Lancaster Floor Plant. These services include process improvement work, daily process support, cost reduction activities, and project management. This position plays a critical role in our Lean and continuous improvement activities.
Shift: Day Shift
Location: 1067 Dillerville Rd Lancaster PA 17603
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:
- Proactively providing engineering and technical assistance to the operation in terms of production processes and systems, materials, training, and equipment.
- Driving new product development and implementation at the plant in close coordination with Sales, Product Management, and R&D.
- Leading projects and initiatives to drive cost and yield improvements and material optimization.
- Identifying and resolving common cause and special cause issues that impact line performance.
- Troubleshooting process issues and facilitating corrective actions. This includes consulting with production and maintenance personnel, analyzing the supporting data, recommending corrective actions, and following through on solutions to evaluate their effectiveness.
- Executing capital projects, ensuring cost, schedule, and performance goals are met or exceeded. This may vary from owning portions of a large project to sole ownership of a project.
- Educating operations personnel on technical issues and process changes to ensure their knowledge and understanding.
- Coordinating training and start up activities of new equipment and processes.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:
- Responds promptly to customer needs; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments.
- Balances team and individual responsibilities; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to a variety of situations.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or similar field.
- Minimum of 1-3 years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong change management skills and experience.
- Strong verbal, written, analytical, and presentation skills
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint
- Must be able to successfully complete and pass a background check, employment verification and drug screening
- Positive and Verifiable Work History
- Must follow safety guidelines and wear applicable safety equipment, e.g., safety glasses, side shields, approved safety shoes, and other PPE as needed
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Think analytically
- Make decisions
- Develop options and implement solutions
- Work with a team
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance (consistent with ADA and/or FMLA)
- Attention to detail
- Communicate effectively
- Multitask in a fast pace environment
- Work with a Sense of Urgency
MENTAL DEMANDS
The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Think analytically
- Make decisions
- Develop options and implement solutions
- Work with a team
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance (consistent with ADA and/or FMLA)
- Attention to detail
- Communicate effectively
- Multitask in a fast pace environment
- Work with a Sense of Urgency
AHF Products provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Notice to Staffing Agencies, Placement Services, and Professional Recruiters
AHF Products has an internal Staffing Department. Recruiters are hereby specifically directed NOT to contact AHF employees directly in an attempt to present candidates.
AHF will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to AHF, including unsolicited resumes sent to an AHF mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to AHF employees, or to AHF’s resume database will be considered AHF property. AHF will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. AHF will consider any candidate for whom a Recruiter has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Recruiter free of any charges or fees.
AHF will not pay a fee to any Recruiter that does not have a signed AHF contract in place specific to the position for which the resume was submitted.
Recruiting vendor agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by AHF’s Corporate Talent Acquisition Manager or his or her designee. No other AHF employee is authorized to bind AHF to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by Recruiters. By submitting a candidate to AHF, recruiters agree to be bound and comply with this policy.
