Laborup

Process Engineer

Laborup  •  Morristown, TN (Onsite)  •  1 day ago
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Job Description

We’re hiring Process Engineers to join our polymer compounding manufacturing team.

You’ll spend most of your day on the production floor leading trials, troubleshooting manufacturing issues, improving throughput, and helping launch new products. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll work directly with operators, supervisors, and maintenance to solve real production problems, not sit behind a desk designing processes that someone else has to implement.

As we continue investing in new equipment, new production lines, and new products, we’re looking for experienced engineers who want to own their processes, mentor younger engineers, and build long-term careers with a stable company that gives engineers the freedom to make decisions and improve the plant.

What Makes This Opportunity Great

  • Own Your Process: Engineers have real authority to improve production, not just make recommendations.
  • Outstanding Benefits: 100% company-paid family health insurance plus annual bonus eligibility.
  • Hands-On Engineering: Spend more than half of your time on the production floor.
  • Continuous Investment: New products, new equipment, and major plant expansion projects.
  • Mentor the Next Generation: Join an experienced engineering team and help develop newer engineers.
  • Long-Term Growth: Build a career with increasing responsibility rather than chasing promotions between companies.

Compensation

  • $80k - $85k / yr
  • Annual bonus eligibility
  • 100% company-paid family medical, dental & vision

Responsibilities

  • Production Support: Troubleshoot production issues alongside operators and supervisors.
  • Process Trials: Lead trials for new products, raw materials, and equipment.
  • Process Optimization: Reduce scrap, downtime, and transition times.
  • Root Cause Analysis: Investigate production problems and implement permanent solutions.
  • Performance Monitoring: Review daily production data and identify process drift.
  • Manufacturing Documentation: Maintain formulas, production structures, and operating standards.
  • New Product Launches: Support products from development through production.
  • Engineer Development: Mentor junior engineers and train production personnel on new processes.

Requirements

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
  • 5+ years of manufacturing engineering experience
  • Root cause analysis and troubleshooting experience
  • Hands-on manufacturing process improvement
  • Comfortable working primarily on the production floor
  • Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills

Preferred

  • Mechanical, Chemical, Polymer, or Industrial Engineering degree
  • Polymer, plastics, or compounding experience
  • Continuous manufacturing experience
  • Experience leading production trials
  • Smaller manufacturing environment with broad ownership
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers
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About Laborup

Laborup is the #1 AI powered talent platform for America’s industrial workforce. We use AI to create jobs, not take them away. We help HR and plant leaders hire and keep the skilled workers who keep plants running: machinists, welders, maintenance techs, operators, industrial electricians, and engineers. USA Today called us the “LinkedIn for blue collar workers,” and Forbes profiled our work in “How AI Is Solving America’s 1 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Labor Crisis.”

Today we work with manufacturers from 50 person shops to large public companies with tens of thousands of employees, and the story is the same everywhere. It is hard to find talent, hard to keep good people, and staffing costs keep rising. In a market where filling critical industrial roles can take months and turnover is constant, Laborup helps teams move qualified workers from first contact to on site interview in days instead of weeks and keep them on the floor longer.

Most of the workers our customers need are not on LinkedIn or the usual job boards. Laborup uses AI to find this hidden workforce, call and text them, screen and qualify them, build real profiles, and match them directly to the plants and roles where they can succeed. For workers, that means real, permanent roles at serious manufacturers, not one off gigs. For companies, it is durable infrastructure for hiring and retention at scale in a labor market that will stay tight for years.

We work across nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing, as well as sectors like aerospace, automotive, and food production. Teams that use Laborup hire 5 to 10 times faster, see around 3 times better retention, and cut cost per hire by up to 50 to 70 percent. That turns into fewer empty shifts, fewer missed orders, more stable teams, and more capacity without more headache.

We are building the modern talent system for America’s industrial base with a simple long term goal: put a billion industrial workers to work in good jobs that matter.

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Knoxville
Year Founded
Unknown
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