# Market evidence report — process-engineer

Source: **35 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 35), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-18.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 25 | 71 % |
| senior | 7 | 20 % |
| junior | 2 | 6 % |
| lead | 1 | 3 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AutoCAD | 4 | 11 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Office | 4 | 11 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 15 | 43 % |
| 2 | root cause analysis | 11 | 31 % |
| 3 | process optimization | 9 | 26 % |
| 4 | process engineering | 8 | 23 % |
| 5 | process improvement | 7 | 20 % |
| 6 | troubleshooting | 7 | 20 % |
| 7 | process validation | 5 | 14 % |
| 8 | project management | 5 | 14 % |
| 9 | statistical analysis | 5 | 14 % |
| 10 | process design | 4 | 11 % |
| 11 | process development | 4 | 11 % |
| 12 | equipment qualification | 3 | 9 % |
| 13 | problem solving | 3 | 9 % |
| 14 | process monitoring | 3 | 9 % |
| 15 | statistical process control | 3 | 9 % |
| 16 | yield improvement | 3 | 9 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean manufacturing | 8 | 23 % |
| 2 | continuous improvement | 5 | 14 % |
| 3 | six sigma | 5 | 14 % |
| 4 | fmea | 4 | 11 % |
| 5 | GMP | 4 | 11 % |
| 6 | PFMEA | 3 | 9 % |
| 7 | SPC | 3 | 9 % |

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | new product introduction | 4 | 11 % |
| 2 | process documentation | 4 | 11 % |
| 3 | process optimization | 4 | 11 % |
| 4 | process development | 3 | 9 % |
| 5 | project execution | 3 | 9 % |
| 6 | vendor management | 3 | 9 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 35 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

35 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- data analysis — 43 % (15 ads)
- root cause analysis — 31 % (11 ads)
- process optimization — 26 % (9 ads)
- process engineering — 23 % (8 ads)
- process improvement — 20 % (7 ads)
- troubleshooting — 20 % (7 ads)
- process validation — 14 % (5 ads)
- project management — 14 % (5 ads)
- statistical analysis — 14 % (5 ads)
- process design — 11 % (4 ads)

**Top tools:**

- AutoCAD — 11 % (4 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 11 % (4 ads)
- CAD software — 6 % (2 ads)
- jmp — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 6 % (2 ads)
- minitab — 6 % (2 ads)
- SolidWorks — 6 % (2 ads)

**Seniority:** mid 71 % · senior 20 % · junior 6 % · lead 3 %

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Process Engineer | 5 |
| Process Engineer, Refinery | 2 |
| Senior Process Engineer | 2 |
| Battery Process Engineer - Kentucky | 1 |
| Cell Assembly Process Engineer | 1 |
| Engineer, Process | 1 |
| Enterprise Process Engineer Process Improvement | 1 |
| Formation and EOL Quality Engineer - Battery Cell Development Center | 1 |
| Full-Time: Senior Process Engineer (Buffers & CIP) | 1 |
| Lead Process Engineer | 1 |
| Lean Process Engineer Data-Driven Improvements | 1 |
| Manufacturing Engineer | 1 |
| Manufacturing Process Engineer | 1 |
| Manufacturing Process Engineer - Lean & Quality | 1 |
| Mechanical Process Engineer: Automate & Improve | 1 |
| Principal Process Technology Engineer | 1 |
| Process Engineer - Cast House | 1 |
| Process Engineer – Engineering Support (cGMP – Pharmaceutical) | 1 |
| Process Engineer - Tech Transfer | 1 |
| Process Engineer II | 1 |
| Process Engineer II - TS/SCI Clearance | 1 |
| Process Engineering Leader | 1 |
| Senior Ceramic Processing Engineer - Scale-Up and R&D Lead | 1 |
| Senior Life Sciences Process Engineer Remote/Hybrid | 1 |
| Senior Process Engineer | TS/SCI | Process Improvement | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.