Plant Engineer - Edmonton Ab

IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

We currently have an exciting Plant Engineer opportunity. This role is based in our Edmonton AB Plant, reporting to the Plant Manager.

Do not miss the opportunity to join a broad family of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit, and status quo-fighters!

Job Summary

Responsible to ensure that all aspects of plant engineering requirements, including equipment design, optimization, installation, costing, are completed and accurate to meet timelines and stay within budget. Drives safety, efficiency, quality, and continuous improvement by working independently or in conjunction with engineering, production, maintenance, or vendors to analyze and develop solutions to improve processing, products and solve issues. This includes design, development, or modifications of new and existing processes, equipment, tooling, materials, cost, or quality improvement projects.

Principal Responsibilities

• Source all supplies, new process equipment and materials, research benchmarking of new processes for continuous improvement to meet changing needs.
• Continually audit existing equipment and processes and recommend improvements. Prepares economic analysis and comparisons to provide management with information to use in decision-making processes.
• Developing integrated production and manufacturing systems.
• Document equipment performance, production process, equipment, and tooling specs for new products and costs analyzing inputs of production
• Conducting studies of new equipment and machinery and recommending efficient options
• Evaluates internal defects, downtime, and finds opportunities for improvement in terms of productivity, quality, scrap reduction, etc.
• Researching and presenting innovative solutions to production problems
• Oversee CAPEX projects
• Coordinate all aspects of plant engineering projects such as: communicating with contractors, reviewing current status against timelines and cost summaries, to supply management with up to date status reports and time of completion. Ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Coordinate with Maintenance Manager and Production Manager, for optimum usage of internal resources during the completion of various engineering projects.
• Follow up on delivery of materials and equipment through maintaining communications with suppliers and contractors.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience in a plastic manufacturing environment/processes is preferred
• Degree in Engineering preferably in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
• Advanced knowledge of systems, tools, and automation solutions for productivity
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a Manufacturing/Engineering environment
• Ability to determine how operations, environments, and systems interact
• Understanding of technical documentation, and industrial blueprints and plans
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office and database software

IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at [email protected].