Aftermarket Services Screw Design Engineer

Your experience should include:

• Knowledgeable in thermoplastic polymers, types, characteristics, terminology
• Knowledge of design techniques, tools and the principles involved in productions of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and models.
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Ability to work accurately in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstration of a strong work ethic and is a self-starter
• Ability to determine causes of operating errors.
• Identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Ability to adhere to structured work guidelines and schedules
• Ability to read and follow visual cues
• Knowledge of computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• Ability to follow written and/or oral instructions
• Identify measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Ability to work individually and as a team
• Ability to give operating instructions
• Ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Use of logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, statistics, and their applications
• Mechanical working knowledge, i.e. torque, stress etc.
• Understanding of thermodynamic, flow characteristics related to material properties
• Visual-conceptual ability to how polymers behave during the extrusion process
• Ability to interpret data into conclusions in order to drive technical decisions
• Innovative mind set to solve customer problems

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree-mechanical or chemical engineering; and/or
• 5 to 7 years of related experience or equivalent years of experience and training in the plastics industry
• Experience with plastic processing, plastic processing machinery preferred

Travel: This role may require frequent traveling.
 

Who we are:

Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.

Milacron is an operating company of Hillenbrand. Hillenbrand (www.Hillenbrand.com) is a global diversified industrial company with businesses that serve a wide variety of industries around the world. We pursue profitable growth and robust cash generation to drive increased value for our shareholders. Hillenbrand's portfolio includes industrial businesses such as Coperion, Milacron Injection Molding & Extrusion, and Mold-Masters, in addition to Batesville, a recognized leader in the death care industry in North America. Hillenbrand is publicly traded on the NYSE under "HI."

Physical Demands:

To perform this job successfully, the physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. The employee may occasionally be required to crouch. The employee may occasionally lift items as heavy as 10lbs. Specific vision abilities may include the employee’s ability to see near and far distances.

DISCLAIMER: The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of any employee assigned to this job. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

At Hillenbrand we strive to build a diverse workforce through equal opportunity employment that embraces and leverages the differences each individual has to offer. Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer of minorities/females/disabled/veterans.