Eastman Kodak Company is looking for a Coating and Product Quality Engineer to provide excellence in day-to-day manufacturing support, own process conditions for coating film, improve film physical quality and uniformity, interface with upstream and downstream departments, and participate in new product development initiatives.
Requirements
- Product assessment and improvement of both physical quality and performance opportunities (yield improvements, waste reductions, etc).
- Work with process engineers to determine the process conditions that result in optimum film performance; areas include coating, web conveyance, unwinding/winding, roll handling, electrostatics, quality inspection and reporting, data transfer from operation to operation.
- Product development and accreditation of new business opportunities or features.
- Demonstrated ability (through work experience or academic/internship/co-op) to utilize engineering skills across multiple concurrently active projects.
- Demonstrated aptitude to plan, organize, schedule, and direct projects and tasks and adapt to changing conditions.
- Demonstrated aptitude for trouble-shooting issues and assist in root-cause analysis techniques.
Responsibilities
- day-to-day manufacturing support (quality, troubleshooting, and testing) of current sensitized photographic products
- owning the process conditions/procedures necessary to coat film
- film physical quality/uniformity improvements
- interface with upstream and downstream departments as film and materials move from one operation to another
- participate in multidisciplinary teams on new product development initiatives
- Work with process engineers to determine the process conditions that result in optimum film performance; areas include coating, web conveyance, unwinding/winding, roll handling, electrostatics, quality inspection and reporting, data transfer from operation to operation.
- Product development and accreditation of new business opportunities or features.
Other
- Participate in multidisciplinary teams (business unit representatives, process engineers, synthetic chemists, manufacturing operations staff) to achieve divisional goal.
- A strong work ethic, high motivation, multitasking and ability to be mentored.
- Strong interest in hands-on experience with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering within the last 2-5 years.
