Finishing Process Engineer
Avery Dennison · Peachtree City, GA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Process
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 4+ years
- Industry
- Packaging
- Posted
- 8 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level process role at Avery Dennison (packaging) in Peachtree City, GA. In this onsite manufacturing role, you will support day-to-day operations in a fast-paced production environment, investigate and resolve customer quality concerns, and actively drive site safety initiatives.
- They ask for
- 4+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- SPC, FMEA, DOE, ISO 9001, Painting / coating
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How this role compares
Against 18 other live process postings in Georgia.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (4+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 47%
- Six Sigma 42%
- Root cause 37%
- ✓ DOE 26%
- ✓ Cost reduction 26%
- ✓ Painting / coating 26%
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This plant: Avery Dennison in Peachtree City
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- Reliability Engineer · Reliability
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Key Responsibilities
This is an onsite position based at our manufacturing facility in Peachtree City, GA.
- ◆Winding Performance & Equipment Optimization: Monitor and enhance winding performance across current products, new product introductions, and production trials; develop and optimize equipment recipes (standard operating conditions), and implement process preventative maintenance (PM) routines to maximize winding reliability.
- ◆Continuous Improvement Execution: Identify, prioritize, and execute site process improvement projects that directly advance safety, product quality, operational efficiency, and cost reduction objectives.
- ◆Statistical Process Control & Quality Assurance: Analyze and improve process and product capabilities by applying statistical improvement techniques (SPC, DOE, FMEA) to ensure products consistently meet customer specifications; implement corrective actions for internal operational issues and customer complaints.
- ◆Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Maintenance and technicians to maintain equipment in optimal operating condition, and provide timely, actionable feedback to Coating Department Process Engineers to drive incoming material quality improvements.
- ◆Standardization, Safety & Capital Projects: Document process and equipment changes, update standard work instructions and training documentation for operations in compliance with ISO 9001:2015 standards, prepare capital investment justifications, and actively engage in the site safety process.
- ◆Education: Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering (or a related engineering discipline) required.
- ◆Experience: 2-4 years of process engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
- ◆Technical & Statistical Acumen: Knowledge and hands-on experience utilizing statistical analysis, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE), and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
- ◆Project & Change Management: Strong project management capabilities with a proven track record of managing multiple concurrent projects, leading cross-functional improvement teams, developing functional improvement plans, and applying change management principles.
- ◆Communication & Operational Flexibility: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the plant (Operations, Maintenance, Business Unit Managers, and Divisional Resources); ability to compile data-driven technical reports, with the willingness to work flexible hours and weekends as needed.
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As a Finishing Process Engineer at Avery Dennison in Peachtree City, GA, you will join the plant engineering team with a primary focus on optimizing and advancing our finishing processes. In this onsite manufacturing role, you will support day-to-day operations in a fast-paced production environment, investigate and resolve customer quality concerns, and actively drive site safety initiatives. Working in close collaboration with operations, maintenance, and divisional engineering resources, you will identify, prioritize, and execute continuous improvement projects that enhance safety, improve product quality, reduce costs, and maximize process capabilities.