LuxWall, Inc. · 23 hours ago
Process Engineer-Thermal
Litchfield, MI
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expLuxWall, Inc. is focused on innovative Transparent Insulation products and solutions for the built environment. The Thermal Process Engineer is responsible for process development, optimization, and troubleshooting related to thermal heating systems for advanced materials, ensuring efficiency and safety in manufacturing processes.
Building MaterialConstructionManufacturingSustainability
Responsibilities
Responsible for optimizing line flow, cycle time, uptime, and process yield through changes in tool programming, thermal heating parameters, incoming material optimization, and incremental capital equipment for tool improvements
Maintain accurate and consistent schedules for projects and tasks for thermal heat treatment engineering projects
Help build preventative and predictive maintenance requirements and plans for thermal processing related equipment in manufacturing
Ensure the thermal heating systems achieve critical targets including output per hour, process yield, unscheduled downtime, MTTR, MTBF, number of required operators and other critical parameters per manufacturing planning and targets
Ensure that all equipment is installed and operated in a safe manner and has appropriate engineering controls, where applicable, to ensure safe operation
Develop written procedures for SOPs and work instructions for process operators and technicians with the metrics being defined as safety, quality, production outputs and documentation
Collaborate with R&D organization for transfer of new products, processes, and equipment to high volume production
Responsible for training process technicians on thermal heat treatment and processing technology, tool operation, tool preventative maintenance, process metrology and quality control, and troubleshooting
Responsible for ensuring the heat-treated materials, process and equipment satisfy the cost of goods sold (COGS) targets, manufacturing cycle time, uptime and yield and output per hour so the company reaches is COGS targets
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in engineering (preferably mechanical or electrical) and minimum 5 years' experience or engineering technology degree and minimum 10 years' experience
Successful completion of college or higher-level course (or equivalent projects) of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and those of materials science or material engineering
Knowledge of continuous convection, radiant, hybrid and milli-meter microwave furnaces
Excellent problem solving, brainstorming, and troubleshooting skills
Highly proficient using MS Project software along with the MS Office product suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
Extensive experience in formulating and managing project schedules using WBS and Gantt charts
Experience and exposure to working in high-volume manufacturing operations
Preferred
Experience working with glass, coatings, fabricated glass, and glass system solutions
Company
LuxWall, Inc.
Headquartered in Ypsilanti, MI, USA, LuxWall is focused on product development, scaling, and commercialization of innovative energy-efficient products and solutions for the built environment.
51-200 employees
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2024 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$198.73MKey Investors
Barclays Sustainable and Impact Banking,Climate InvestmentUS Department of Energy2150
2025-12-24Series C· $77.01M
2024-10-31Series B· $51M
2023-11-27Grant· $31.7M
Leadership Team
Scott V. Thomsen
Chairman and CEO
Recent News
2025-10-28
2025-10-09
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