Drive innovation where it matters
At Mölnlycke, we believe that real impact starts with people. People who are bold enough to challenge the status quo. People who care deeply for their work, their colleagues, and the world around them.
As a global medical solutions company, we design and deliver innovative products and services across wound care, operating room solutions, gloves, and antiseptics. Our mission is to advance performance in healthcare by supporting professionals, improving outcomes, and making a difference where it matters most.
The Gloves business area at Mölnlycke helps hands perform at their best so clinicians can perform at their best.
We are now looking for Senior Process Engineering Manager to join our Manufacturing Excellence team.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
In this role, you’ll contribute to meaningful work that improves lives. You’ll collaborate across teams, bring your ideas to the table, and help shape solutions that matter. Whether you’re streamlining a process, launching a product, or supporting a colleague, you’ll be making a difference every day.
Here’s how you’ll make an impact in this role
Process Risk Governance & Control Plan Ownership
Lead the governance of PFMEA and Control Plan methodology across manufacturing processes, ensuring process risks are systematically identified, mitigated, and translated into effective controls.
- Establish and govern PFMEA and Control Plan standards across Compounding, Dipping, and downstream processes.
- Ensure PFMEA and Control Plans are developed, maintained, reviewed, and updated as living documents.
- Drive identification and mitigation of process risks impacting product quality, yield, scrap, rework, and operational stability.
- Ensure risk controls are translated into clear process parameters, detection methods, reaction plans, SOPs, and shopfloor practices.
Process Control, Standardization & Technical Depth
Strengthen manufacturing process control by ensuring critical process parameters, process windows, control limits, and technical standards are clearly defined and consistently applied.
- Define and standardize critical process parameters, process windows, control limits, and key control points across production stages.
- Ensure process documentation, actual operating practices, and shopfloor execution are aligned.
- Build deeper technical understanding of the relationship between material behaviour, process conditions, equipment capability, environmental factors, and final product quality.
- Ensure process decisions are based on data, process knowledge, capability evidence, and clear linkage between input variables and quality outcomes.
Process Engineering Leadership & Capability Building
Lead and develop the Process Engineering function to provide strong technical ownership of process stability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
- Lead, coach, and manage the Process Engineering team across different levels of seniority and technical capability.
- Provide direction in process troubleshooting, root cause analysis, defect reduction, and process performance improvement.
- Build team capability in PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, DOE, validation review, process capability, RCA, and data-driven problem solving.
- Establish governance routines, ways of working, escalation mechanisms, and technical review forums for the team.
Validation, Process Capability & Change Control Support
Ensure validation activities are technically robust and linked to process stability, manufacturability, and intended quality outcomes.
- Provide process engineering input into validation activities for new processes, equipment changes, product introductions, and process changes.
- Ensure validation protocols, PQ/POQ results, capability studies, and reports demonstrate process readiness and repeatability.
- Ensure validation findings are incorporated into PFMEA, Control Plans, process windows, reaction plans, and ongoing monitoring.
- Support change control and deviation reviews by ensuring process risks and control impacts are properly assessed.
Defect Reduction, Yield Improvement & Manufacturing Performance
Drive systematic process improvement initiatives that reduce defects, improve yield, strengthen process stability, and support operational KPIs.
- Lead initiatives to reduce scrap, rework, recurring defects, process instability, and yield losses.
- Ensure improvement actions are linked to PFMEA risk reduction and Control Plan strengthening.
- Use process data, defect trends, technical analysis, and shopfloor observations to identify systemic weaknesses.
- Support Production in achieving stable and efficient manufacturing through stronger process control and faster problem resolution.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Digital Process Control
Work cross-functionally to align process standards, improvement priorities, validation activities, and digital control requirements across the manufacturing value stream.
- Collaborate with Production, QA, R&D, Engineering, Maintenance, Manufacturing Excellence, and Digitalization teams to strengthen process control and operational stability.
- Translate process control needs into requirements for monitoring, alarms, dashboards, data capture, and future automation.
- Ensure digitalization efforts are aligned with PFMEA and Control Plan priorities, especially for critical process parameters and high-risk control gaps.
- Escalate unresolved process risks, weak controls, and systemic issues through the appropriate governance forums.
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Polymer Science, Material Science, Industrial Engineering, Automation Engineering or related technical field.
- Master’s Degree or higher qualification would be preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in process engineering, manufacturing engineering, technical operations, manufacturing excellence, validation, R&D or quality engineering.
- Minimum 3–5 years of experience leading technical or cross-functional manufacturing teams.
- Experience in high-volume, regulated, medical device, glove, polymer, chemical, latex/rubber or process-based manufacturing is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in PFMEA, Control Plan, process validation, process capability, SPC, MSA, DOE, 8D and structured problem solving.
- Experience improving quality, process stability, scrap, rework, yield, productivity and manufacturability.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Production, QA, R&D, Engineering, Maintenance, Manufacturing Excellence, Digitalization and external partners.
Capabilities
The role requires the following capabilities:
Technical Capabilities
- Strong understanding of manufacturing process engineering, process control, validation, process capability and shopfloor execution.
- Expertise in PFMEA, Control Plan methodology, risk management and translating risks into practical controls.
- Strong knowledge of critical process parameters, process windows, material/equipment-process interaction and product quality outcomes.
- Strong problem-solving capability using tools such as 8D, SPC, MSA, DOE, 5 Why, Fishbone and statistical analysis.
- Good understanding of regulated manufacturing, quality systems, change control, deviation management and digital manufacturing concepts.
Leadership Capabilities
- Ability to lead, coach and develop a multi-disciplinary technical process engineering team.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration across Production, QA, R&D, Engineering, Maintenance, Manufacturing Excellence, Digitalization and external partners.
- Ability to establish governance routines, decision rights, escalation paths and clear accountability.
- Strong communication and influencing skills to align stakeholders and present technical priorities to senior leadership.
Analytical Capabilities
- Ability to interpret process data, identify variation and challenge root cause conclusions using technical evidence.
- Ability to prioritize actions based on risk, quality impact, manufacturability, productivity, cost and compliance.
- Strong decision-making based on data, technical logic and operational impact.
- Strong business acumen to connect process stability, scrap, rework, yield and productivity to business performance
What you’ll get
- Wellness benefits
- Great colleagues in a global company.
- An open, friendly and fair working atmosphere
Our approach to Diversity & Inclusion
We’re building a workplace where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued. We believe that a diverse mix of people (from different cultures, ages, geographies, and genders) makes us stronger. It brings fresh perspectives, drives better decisions, and helps us deliver solutions that reflect the world we serve.
Inclusion isn’t just a value, it’s how we work, grow, and lead together.
About Mölnlycke
Mölnlycke is a world-leading medical products and solutions company that equips healthcare professionals to achieve the best patient, clinical and economic outcomes.
Our business is organised in the four business areas Wound Care, Operating Room Solutions, Gloves and Antiseptics, where customer centricity, sustainability and digitalisation are at the heart of everything we do.
Mölnlycke employs around 8,700 people. The company headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden and we operate in more than 100 countries worldwide. Mölnlycke is a founding partner of GoCo Health Innovation City, a world-class innovation cluster for health.
Since 2007, the company has been part of Investor AB, an engaged owner of high-quality, global companies which was founded by the Wallenberg family in 1916. For more information, please visit www.molnlycke.com and www.molnlycke.com/careers
