Do your innovative problem-solving skills make a significant impact in your current company operations? Then consider joining us as an R&D Process Engineer, specializing in pultrusion and extrusion for our composite material platforms. Your primary focus will be understanding and streamlining chemical process responses to manufacturing inputs, thereby, ensuring consistency across shifts and lines, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

In this technical role, you'll be instrumental in driving innovation, and leading projects aimed at optimizing our composite material platforms. Through teamwork, you will be contributing to the ongoing evolution of our continuous flow manufacturing processes.

We know you will make a difference here, so we'll provide all the ways you can grow professionally and personally. Our benefits package is built around your well-being and starts on day one! You will also receive a $5,000 sign-on bonus and $5,000 for relocation costs. Join Tecton Products, part of the Marvin Family of companies, where craftsmanship meets innovation, and be part of a team dedicated to redefining possibilities in living. Your journey with us is not just a career; it's a meaningful contribution to our shared success.

Highlights of your role

• Build a comprehensive knowledge base on raw materials, pre-production, and production processes, focusing on their impact on chemical reactivity for improved process capability and stability.
• Contribute to the development of programs, training tools, and SOPs for consistent and stable manufacturing of pultruded and extruded profiles.
• Collaborate with teams across different functions within our company to address and devise solutions for production and quality-related challenges.
• Drive innovation by conducting targeted research for new processes, while continuously identifying and implementing improvements in existing continuous manufacturing processes.
• Gain insights into material behavior during processing, assess within specified ranges, understand limits, and ensure compatibility with equipment. Leverage simulation and analytical tools for a detailed understanding.
• Conduct tests and monitor the process performance of our pultrusion and extrusion processes.

You’re a good fit if you have (or if you can)

• Demonstrated data analysis for informed decision-making.
• Proven proficiency in past Six Sigma and process improvement.
• Showcased experience in past continuous process manufacturing, especially with thermoplastics/thermosets, including extrusion and pultrusion.
• Exhibited strong communication skills and adaptability through successful influence, resilience, and building strong relationships in dynamic work settings.

We also want to make sure you have:

• BS Degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or an advanced degree in Chemistry and/or Material Science

Your opportunity for better living

At Tecton, we’re driven to imagine and create better ways of living. And that goes beyond our customers, to our communities and the colleagues beside us every day. We offer competitive compensation, an extensive benefits package that includes health insurance on day one of employment, paid time off and paid holidays, and a 401K retirement savings match!

We also support your overall wellness in other meaningful ways, including your own company-funded well-being account that can be used for anything from travel to a day at the spa, gym memberships or fun experiences with family and friends. You will be rewarded through our profit-sharing program, which recognizes the important role all employees play in making Tecton and Marvin a success year, after year.

Our culture is built on 4th generation family values that guide us to do the right thing. And as a premier company with locations across North America, we know we’re stronger together. Our culture is built on generations of doing the right thing and putting our people first. Join us, and experience better living at Tecton.

Tecton is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities of the employee. Accommodation may be made to enable an individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of the position. Any employment offer depends on completing a background check and drug screen to company standards.