Finishing Process Engineer

As a Finishing Process Engineer at Avery Dennison in Peachtree City, GA, you will join the plant engineering team with a primary focus on optimizing and advancing our finishing processes. In this onsite manufacturing role, you will support day-to-day operations in a fast-paced production environment, investigate and resolve customer quality concerns, and actively drive site safety initiatives. Working in close collaboration with operations, maintenance, and divisional engineering resources, you will identify, prioritize, and execute continuous improvement projects that enhance safety, improve product quality, reduce costs, and maximize process capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

This is an onsite position based at our manufacturing facility in Peachtree City, GA.

• Winding Performance & Equipment Optimization: Monitor and enhance winding performance across current products, new product introductions, and production trials; develop and optimize equipment recipes (standard operating conditions), and implement process preventative maintenance (PM) routines to maximize winding reliability.

• Continuous Improvement Execution: Identify, prioritize, and execute site process improvement projects that directly advance safety, product quality, operational efficiency, and cost reduction objectives.

• Statistical Process Control & Quality Assurance: Analyze and improve process and product capabilities by applying statistical improvement techniques (SPC, DOE, FMEA) to ensure products consistently meet customer specifications; implement corrective actions for internal operational issues and customer complaints.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Maintenance and technicians to maintain equipment in optimal operating condition, and provide timely, actionable feedback to Coating Department Process Engineers to drive incoming material quality improvements.

• Standardization, Safety & Capital Projects: Document process and equipment changes, update standard work instructions and training documentation for operations in compliance with ISO 9001:2015 standards, prepare capital investment justifications, and actively engage in the site safety process.