• Set up and monitor production and quality metrics to ensure an optimal plant operation and accurate reporting • Continually optimize production operations to maximize the Efficiency and On-Stream-Time of the manufacturing equipment • Lead safety training, conduct behavior based safety audits, and provide a strong safety presence in the plant • Develop, revise and review standard operating procedures to meet ISO9001 • Minimize/eliminate out of specification production by efficiently troubleshooting process issues and ensuring equipment is maintained in the condition that is required • Conduct thorough/appropriate non-conforming product and customer complaint investigations necessary to identify root causes and effective corrective/preventive action to continuously reduce the amount of off-spec production and customer complaints • Investigate/identify causes of waste generation in order to minimize the amount of waste generated • Train the salaried and hourly staff, as appropriate, on technical matters • Initiate and develop justification, scope of work and submit engineering projects for approval • Initiate and define project work scope, develop preliminary design documentation, author or review Requests for Quotation • Identify and communicate with qualified vendors, evaluate and recommend vendor proposals • Prepare status reports and presentations and lead meetings involving engineering projects • Provide process and/or engineering expertise to assist in process improvement