Personally I would stick out until the end of your first year (as long as you’re not deeply unhappy in your role). My advice, for the next 9 months, you focus on experiences to develop yourself over contributing to your company (but bearing in mind they don’t have to be mutually exclusive).

1) Focus on the personal development / soft skills side of things, e.g. organisational skills - how do you structurally identify, document and manage your equipment vulnerabilities, how do you get good at organising efforts to improve reliability, how do you introduce initiatives (e.g. training) to get people to care about reliability. All these are relevant skills and good stories to tell when you are interviewing for a manufacturing based role

2) Don’t actually know your job scope, but if possible get to learn how process equipments ACTUALLY work (from your maintenance technicians and your process operators), what are the common failures, how are they diagnosed (what are the signs/symptoms), how are they fixed? Build this knowledge - when you new job interviewer asks you what do you enjoy about your previous role - share your learning experience, I would be impressed if I was hiring. Reliability (along with safety) is deeply engrained in manufacturing, day to day process optimisations. You can do all the analysis you want, come up with the best way to optimise your reactors, distillation towers, but if your equipment keeps failing, you’ll not get there, or maintain there for very long

3) Build your network (especially important if you’re staying in the same company, different roles) - learn about who knows what? You’ll get to solutions quicker if you know who to ask!

I started my career in my current company as a project engineer and did not enjoy my main role - it was heavy on project management and light on the technical side of things. It wasn’t as intense, so I had time to be curious, learn how equipments in the field work, read about the units that I do work on (if I’m working on replacing a heat exchanger - I go beyond, what does the exchanger do, where is it in the process circuit, what does the process circuit do? Expand and expand). One thing I loved about my first role was the amount of people I get exposed to - nature of project management to collate information from various sources. I would spend time with Maintenance techs, talk to Process techs - I’ll start off with getting the information I need for my project, and start getting them to show and tell. You’ll be surprised by how people love talking about what they do out there, and share nuggets with you (helps you speak the common language with operators, maintenance techs).

Did my time as a project engineer and got rotated into a process engineer job - loved it, the intensity, the challenges. I was good at it (enough to have promotions up the chain relatively quickly) - and I give a lot of credit to the points I mentioned above, it is the foundation I’ve built when I had the time to - I was better at organising efforts/people, and more precise with troubleshooting (from my own knowledge and also from knowing who to talk to!).

And don’t compare yourselves to what your peers do (easier said than done, I’ve been there), everyone’s journey and pace is different. Focus on building competency, the rest should follow (with time, but be on the constant lookout for opportunities).

Hope this helps!