The Senior Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for the development, optimization, and validation of processes and systems to support the manufacturing scale up of our PVC Deck and Railing products.

Your primary duties and responsibilities will be:

• Work within the final assembly manufacturing environment(s) and drive early-stage process development and manufacturing optimization to ensure products meet design intent.
• Work with and manage external suppliers, conduct DFM reviews, and go onsite as needed.
• Develop and implement manufacturing processes and measurement methods to meet tight tolerance manufacturing requirements and manufacturing scale up.
• Lead development of fixtures, equipment, and automation.
• Interface with contract manufacturers and suppliers.
• Process evaluations and lead process optimization initiatives utilizing tools such as SPC, DOE, PFMEA, and MSA.
• Evaluation and continuous improvement of process capabilities.
• Develop and lead projects to improve process monitoring and quality and reduce costs.
• Conduct root cause failure analysis and corrective action.
• Establish sampling and Quality plans
• Participate and/or lead risk management activities including product and process FMEA.
• Support reliability engineering activities.
• Participate and/or lead validation activities for design, process, or products.
• Development and qualification of test methods for verifications and validations.
• Write and execute study protocols, technical reports, manufacturing work instructions (MWI), validations, reports, batch records, design control and other documents as required.
• Participate on project teams or leading internal teams. Communicate activities across the organization. Interface with various departments to ensure processes and designs are compatible with the manufacturing environment, launch strategy, and Azek’s objectives.
• Partners with Quality and Regulatory, R&D, and operations to ensure compliance of the manufacturing processes, provide support for regulatory filings, and ensure the robustness of the process and raw materials.
• Contribute to the development of the facility's capital improvement plan. 
• Coordinate multiple facility-wide shutdowns, collaborating with external contractors and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution. 
• Led safety initiatives, margin and capacity improvements, new product development efforts, and reliability/maintenance projects. 
• Develop engineering standards, comprehensive training documentation, and basis of engineering design (BED) documents and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Conduct in-depth time studies to identify process bottlenecks, implementing solutions to optimize efficiency and throughput.

We believe the successful candidate will have:

• A BS in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or related Engineering field is required, MS preferred.
• Minimum of 4 years of polymer processing or PVC manufacturing experience using single or twin screw extrusion equipment.
• Experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment, a strong plus
• A Track record of generating novel ideas, and out of the box thinker and a true entrepreneurial mind set, a strong plus.
• Proven ability to solve problems and improve manufacturing processes that use high precision mechanical components.
• Strong working knowledge and experience in manufacturing processes, process development and validations for finished medical devices.
• Knowledge of plastics extrusion processing equipment is required.
• Successful implementation and use of statistical based quality improvement tools such as design of experiments, Statistical Process Control and GAGE R&R.
• Experience in equipment and automation development
• Project leadership in multi-disciplined projects.
• Experienced in quality system requirements for the building products industry.
• Proven ability to motivate and lead others, often without direct control, such as suppliers.
• Self-motivated, team-oriented individual who collaborates and communicates effectively with local and international team members in a cross-functional, multi-cultural, interdisciplinary environment.
• Comfortable working in an extremely dynamic and fast paced environment, and able to meet aggressive development milestones.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

About The Azek Company

The AZEK Company is committed to innovating, inspiring, reinventing, revolutionizing and leading our industry to create a more sustainable future. We offer low-maintenance, beautiful outdoor living products leveraging innovations in material science to offer our customers world-class, environmentally sustainable solutions. Headquartered in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood, The AZEK Company is nestled in the same thriving business district that houses other leading corporations such as Google, Dyson, and Glassdoor. The AZEK Company also operates manufacturing and recycling facilities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Georgia, Nevada, New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas. CREATING GOODS THAT DO GOOD We wholeheartedly embrace a responsibility to sustainability and seek to always act with purpose. We are committed to pursuing initiatives that positively impact our products, our people and our planet. Like leveraging our R&D strengths to introduce products that increasingly utilize recycled materials and tapping our culture to positively impact employees, customers and communities alike. And, committing to set ambitious targets like using 1 billion pounds of recycled materi...al annually in the manufacturing of our products and reducing the carbon footprint across our value chain in alignment with climate science. Our success is fueled by the ideas and dedication of our team and we are committed to providing an equitable and inclusive workplace where diversity of all kinds is sought out, valued, respected and appreciated. We have an unwavering customer-centric focus. Our responsibility is to understand customer expectations, then surpass them. We are also committed to working with business partners and suppliers whose values and practices mirror our own. At The AZEK Company, we look at the full-circle and we bring things full-circle. Why? Because, we seek to revolutionize outdoor living to create a more sustainable future.

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