Continuous Improvement Engineer

About the role

Position: Continuous Improvement Engineer. Reports to: Operations Manager. Location: Liberty, SC.

• Implement a system to identify and solve problems by engaging all company personnel.
• Apply all Continuous Improvement / OpEx principles, tools, and techniques to reduce waste, variation, and overburden on people and processes.
• Support the leadership team in creating employee engagement in the Continuous Improvement process.
• Lead, prepare, follow up, and close Continuous Improvement projects and/or events.
• Train all employees in the different tools used for improvement.
• Quantify the results of improvement events.
• Responsible for training and implementing the 5S program as well as Lean Manufacturing techniques throughout the plant.
• Develop the annual Improvement Plan through meetings with Area Managers, based on compliance with corporate value creation metrics.
• Manage and follow up on the annual Continuous Improvement Plan, reporting monthly results and generating follow-up actions when results do not meet expected targets.
• Present monthly results to corporate.

Responsibilities

• Manage, lead, prepare, follow up, and close Rapid Improvement Events (RIE) such as Continuous Flow Creation (CFC), Projects, Kaizen, Kaizen Blitz, TPM implementation, Kanban, Quick Changeover (SMED), among other improvement tools.
• Train and coach all organization employees in practical problem solving (CPS). Develop problem solvers.
• Continuously monitor and report monthly savings results from scrap reduction projects.
• Implement Tier 1 boards and train associates.
• Implement Tier 2 boards.
• Create layouts during improvement events.
• Create, prepare, and keep updated training support materials used during improvement events.
• Create Value Stream Analysis (VSA) maps.
• Create, support, and train in Standard Work (SW & LSW).
• Develop, train, and follow up on Poka Yoke implementation.
• Manage and participate in the Management Gemba board.
• Establish and validate with Finance and applicable leadership the method to measure value-generating project results.
• Follow up on monthly project results and present validated results to corporate.

Requirements

Knowledge:

• Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Business Management Engineering, or related field.