Senior Process Engineer

Job Title: Senior Process Engineer
Job ID: 90235
Location: Los Angeles, California/ New York

What you will be doing:

• Evaluate manufacturing processes across USCT’s portfolio of specialty chemical/materials companies.
• Get onto the factory floor and deeply understand how products are actually being manufactured.
• Identify bottlenecks acrossthroughput, yield, labor, quality, equipment utilization, material flow and cost.
• Redesign and optimize manufacturing processes to improve efficiency, reliability, scalability and economics.
• Evaluate new manufacturing equipment, automation and process technologies.
• Build thebusiness case and ROIbehind technical investments: CapEx, labor savings, throughput improvements, yield gains, payback periods, etc.
• Translate technical recommendations into decisions leadership can act on.
• Work directly with operators, technicians and plant leadership to implement improvements — not just recommend them.
• Support technical diligence on potential acquisitions and identify opportunities to improve facilities after acquisition.
• Help bring modern manufacturing thinking into highly specialized, often legacy industrial environments.

What you must have:

• Real manufacturing experience.You have spent meaningful time inside manufacturing environments and understand how factories actually operate.
• Strong process engineering foundation.Ideally materials, chemical, process, manufacturing or adjacent engineering.
• Factory-floor instincts.You can observe an unfamiliar manufacturing process, dissect it, find the constraint and formulate a better approach.
• Heavy manufacturing/process exposure.Specialty chemicals, materials processing, advanced manufacturing or similar environments are especially relevant.
• Technical + financial brain.You don’t stop at“this machine would make the process faster.”You can determine what it costs, what it saves, the operational tradeoffs and whether the investment actually makes sense.
• High EQ.You’re walking into established companies with people who may have spent decades perfecting their craft. You need to earn credibility, learn from them and bring them along — not walk in acting like the corporate person who knows everything.
• Travel.This role needs someone who genuinely enjoys being at manufacturing sites.

Salary/Rate Range: $170,000-$220,000