Process technician Jobs in Sparks, NV

Sr. Business Process Engineer

The Sr Business Process Engineer leads complex cross-functional business process transformation initiatives across teams, systems, and business units, including the evaluation and integration of manufacturing technologies such as automation, IoT, and robotics. This role owns end-to-end process redesign, establishes scalable practices, develops business cases, and manages dependencies to deliver measurable business value through effective integration of people, process, and technology. Mentors Business Process Engineer I and II team members and helps raise team standards and execution discipline.

Functional Operations:

• Lead complex end-to-end process redesign efforts across multiple functions, systems, value streams, or business units
• Define project scope, success criteria, risks, dependencies, and business-value targets for assigned areas
• Facilitate senior stakeholder alignment on requirements, tradeoffs, operating-model impacts, adoption risks, and decisions
• Coordinate implementation across Operations, IT, Finance, Procurement, Planning, Engineering, and other business partners
• Present recommendations, risks, business impact, and implementation status to leadership in a clear, decision-oriented manner
• Provide technical and process advice on manufacturing systems, data flows, system integrations, automation opportunities, and process capability
• Lead evaluation and integration of technologies such as IoT, AI/machine learning, robotics, and automation into complex, cross-functional process redesigns

Performance Optimization & Continuous Improvement:

• Develop business cases, financial models, cost-reduction opportunities, benefit-realization plans, and value-tracking mechanisms
• Establish process-control methods, KPIs, dashboards, and escalation paths to sustain improvements
• Use advanced data analytics and process simulation/modeling tools to derive actionable insights and support decision-making for transformation initiatives
• Develop strategies to optimize equipment utilization, minimize downtime, and reduce cycle times across multiple functions or value streams

Training & Team Support:

• Coach Business Process Engineer I and II team members on process methods, stakeholder management, analysis quality, and project execution discipline
• Mentor and conduct hands-on training, providing process guidance and technical support to others at same or lower level within functional area

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication:

• Resolve cross-functional friction constructively and influence decisions without formal authority
• Translate complexity into clear business impact for senior stakeholders

Quality, Safety, & Compliance:

• Follow safety, quality, customer, data-handling, and company standards, and establish controls and governance that sustain compliance across assigned initiatives

Qualifications:

Requirements - Required and/or Preferred Education, Certifications, and Licenses:

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related engineering/technical field; OR 4 years of relevant business process engineering or manufacturing analysis experience in lieu of a degree
• Preferred: Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related engineering/technical field

Essential Qualifications:

• 4-6 years of professional experience in business process engineering or a related field
• Previous experience in semi-conductor, automotive, or other high-volume manufacturing field
• Hands-on experience applying business process analysis tools, including current-state and future-state design, root-cause analysis, business case development, cost-benefit analysis, metrics, and process control and management
• Ability to plan and deploy complex business process initiatives across multiple functions and stakeholder groups
• Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies
• Able to assimilate and correlate disconnected business information and articulate its collective relevance to the organization
• Able to develop metrics, collect data, and analyze data to identify cause and measure performance against process requirements
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written), including the ability to explain and present technical information
• Collaborate and work effectively at all levels of the organization and influence others toward consensus
• Must have working-level knowledge of the English language, including reading, writing, and speaking English
• Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision and manage competing priorities
• Experience evaluating or integrating manufacturing technologies such as automation, IoT, robotics, or AI/machine learning
• Experience with process simulation/modeling software and data analytics tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lean or Six Sigma Certification is strongly preferred
• Resilient, self-motived and able to work well under pressure
• Experience in high-volume battery manufacturing or a related industrial environment such as electronics, automotive, or energy storage
• Alignment to Company's seven (7) core principles (contribution to society, fairness and honesty, cooperation and team spirit, untiring effort for improvement, courtesy and humility, adaptability, gratitude)

Physical Demands:

• Physical Activities: (Percentage of time (equaling 100%) during the normal workday the employee is required to) Sit: 70% Walk: 20% Stand: 5% Lift: 5%
• Required Lifting and Carrying: (Required frequency is: Not required (0%), Occasional (1-33%), Frequent (34-66%, Continuous (67-100%) Up to 10 lbs.: Occasional Up to 20 lbs.: Occasional Up to 35 lbs.: Occasional Team-lift only (over 35 lbs.): Occasional