Process Control Systems Engineer

Your tasks

Formulate a unified technical policy and corporate standards for tread, sidewall, and apex extrusion for summer, winter, and all-season tires across all 3 plants; ensure the replication of best modes and solutions. Manage the design and optimization of preformers, bars, dies, and heads on a scale of 3 sites; approve documentation and implement new profiles, including asymmetric and multi-component ones. Oversee the implementation and setup of co-extrusion of up to 6+ compounds at the plants; conduct audits of flow balancing, geometry stability, and inter-plant comparability. Set target KPIs for extrusion parameters, waste, productivity, and repeatability for 3 plants; analyze deviations and initiate corrective programs. Organize a unified quality control system for extrudate and defect investigations (edge breaks, delamination, air inclusions, under-vulcanization) with solution sharing between sites. Interact with corporate R&D and compounding services to adapt compounds for extrusion (silica, UHP, experimental) and validate them at 3 plants. Plan and support the modernization of extrusion equipment and tooling at the plants; implement automatic profile control, MES/SCADA, and digital tools within a unified corporate loop. Approve technical documentation, train technologists and operators at 3 sites, and manage changes during the implementation of new processes and materials. Lead inter-plant localization, benchmarking, and implementation projects of Michelin, Bridgestone, Continental, and Pirelli best practices, scaling them to all plants. Represent the company in R&D projects, patent work, and at conferences; initiate energy efficiency and green tire projects with replication across 3 plants. Develop and validate a digital twin of the extrusion line as a corporate tool; use it for virtual debugging of preformers, bars, and modes at all 3 plants without stopping production. Create a corporate methodology for managing interfaces and active flow balancing in multi-channel co-extrusion heads for 6+ compounds; ensure its implementation and compliance at 3 sites, including asymmetric tread.

Requirements

Higher technical education: chemical technology, polymer processing, mechanical engineering. Experience in the tire industry of 7+ years, mandatory extrusion of rubber profiles, full cycle from compounds to vulcanization. Practice with winter, summer, and all-season compounds: understanding of rheology, differences in BR, S-SBR, E-SBR, silica-compounds. Deep expertise in tread, sidewall, and apex extrusion, including asymmetric tread with different right and left tread parts. Knowledge/experience in TBR (Truck Bus Radial). Experience in co-extrusion of up to 6+ compounds, Multiplex/Hexaplex technology, multi-channel heads, integrated interfaces at a Michelin level. Design and improvement of preformers, bars, and dies taking into account shrinkage and swelling; CAD (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, NX, CATIA), CFD modeling. Work on modern extruders (single-, twin-screw, cascade, screw 120 250+ mm), hot/cold feed systems, cutting, thermal regulation. Knowledge of materials: rubbers, fillers, vulcanizing systems, scorch, rework, viscosity control by Mooney and cohesive strength. Process optimization skills: temperature profiles, pressure, speed, stability, waste minimization, SCADA/PLC/MES. Understanding of REACH, ETRTO, safety, and ecology. English: Upper-Intermediate level and above. Experience in project/team management, Lean/Six Sigma, cross-functional work for 3+ years. Additional pluses: patents/publications, additive technologies, digitalization, benchmarking of top manufacturers, EV tires.

Higher education — specialist degree, master's degree; Experience: 6 years