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SEALED AIR CORPORATION Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer in Kent, Ohio
Job Description Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer Streetsboro Plastics Operations Requisition ID: 54408 If you are a current employee click here to apply. Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. Westrive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance - a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Airgenerated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com. Role Summary Provide hands-on technical leadership for polyethylene blown film extrusion processes with a strong focus on safety, quality, productivity, waste reduction, and process consistency. This role supports the development and sustainment of standard operating conditions, process capability improvement, troubleshooting of film and equipment issues, and execution of capital and continuous improvement projects. The ideal candidate is comfortable working on the plant floor and using data to solve problems. Experience with polyethylene film structures, resin and additive blend development, film trials, statistical analysis, maintenance troubleshooting, and process validation is highly valued. This role partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Materials, and Engineering to deliver measurable manufacturing results. Role Purpose Drive process excellence in blown film extrusion by establishing, validating, and sustaining robust manufacturing conditions that reduce variation and improve long-term product quality. Provide engineering and technical expertise to support safe operation, improve throughput, reduce scrap, optimize film performance, and standardize materials, machinery, and methods across the Autobag Division. Support divisional initiatives through the application of Lean, Six Sigma, and other structured problem-solving methodologies. Principal Accountabilities Develop, implement, and sustain Standard Operating Conditions (SOC) for blown film extrusion processes in collaboration with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, and Materials teams. This includes startup conditions, resin and additive handling, process settings, changeovers, and troubleshooting standards for both existing and new equipment. Provide day-to-day technical support for polyethylene blown film extrusion lines by identifying sources of variation and driving improvements in safety, gauge control, layflat, bubble stability, output, scrap, and finished film quality. Lead and support film trials, new product qualifications, resin and masterbatch evaluations, blend optimization, and process validation activities. Document trial objectives, execution details, results, conclusions, and recommendations in clear technical summary reports. Analyze process and quality data using statistical tools to determine process capability, identify trends, investigate defects, and validate improvements. Support the use of Six Sigma, Lean, and root cause problem-solving methods in manufacturing. Troubleshoot process, equipment, and product quality issues in partnership with Production and Maintenance. Support corrective actions related to extrusion