Process Engineer

Process Engineer required by CareerWise Recruitment for our composite materials client in County Clare.

We are seeking a Process Engineer to drive process performance, productivity, and customer- facing outcomes within our manufacturing operation.

Responsibilities:

• Act as process owner for assigned manufacturing processes and plant operations
• Drive improvements in process capability, yield, throughput, and consistency
• Ensure processes consistently meet customer specifications and performance requirements
• Provide hands-on technical support to operations, resolving process issues that impact delivery or product quality
• Lead root cause analysis of process-related customer complaints, deviations, and recurring losses
• Understand process risk management and the process based approach to quality and drive continuous improvement initiatives to ultimately improve productivity and customer outcomes
• Support change management (MOC) to ensure process changes do not negatively impact customers
• Partner closely with Quality on deviations, investigations, and customer-related CAPA
• Analyse process data and trends to proactively prevent customer-impacting issues
• Support scale-up, optimisation, and introduction of process changes aligned to customer & operational needs
• Support and coordinate the implementation of relevant capital investment programs.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5–9 years’ experience in a process engineering role within manufacturing or chemical environments
• Strong experience supporting operations-facing manufacturing processes
• Proven track record of improving process capability, yield, and delivery performance
• Experience investigating and resolving customer-impacting process issues
• Strong root cause analysis and data-driven problem-solving skills
• Engineering, science, or related third-level qualification
• Comfortable working closely with operations and customer-facing teams
• Practical, commercially aware engineering mindset What’s on Offer:

• Process Engineering role with ownership of process performance and customer outcomes
• Clear progression toward Senior Process Engineer roles within 12–24 months
• High visibility role with direct impact on customer satisfaction and site performance
• Strong collaboration with Quality, Manufacturing, and Product Development
• Ongoing technical and leadership development
• Hybrid working options where appropriate

Please email James Farrar for further info: jfarrar@careerwise.ie

CareerWise Recruitment (In Search of Excellence)

Established in 1999, CareerWise Recruitment specialises in recruitment of management and technical professionals for the life sciences, ICT, engineering, food and agri sectors.

We operate out of multiple locations in Ireland and have offices in Cork, Shannon, Galway, Mayo and Dublin.