Continuous Improvement, Engineer

Position Summary

The Continuous Improvement Engineer is responsible for driving operational excellence across Rangen Group’s feed production facilities by improving safety, quality, throughput, and manufacturing efficiency. This role partners with plant & senior leadership, operators, and cross-functional teams to identify waste, stabilize processes, and standardize best practices using data-driven problem solving and Lean methodologies. The role serves as a facilitator and coach—enabling teams to solve problems, sustain improvements, and strengthen Rangen’s culture of continuous improvement across livestock, pet, and aquaculture feed operations.

Requirements

• Spend significant time on the production floor engaging operators and identifying improvement opportunities at the source
• Participate in daily Gemba walks with plant leadership to assess SQDCP performance and drive immediate countermeasures
• Model Lean behaviors and drive cultural adoption through hands-on presence, enthusiasm, and coaching
• Lead and facilitate kaizen events focused on SMED, waste elimination, material flow, and equipment reliability
• Reinforce and support 5S, Standard Work, Problem Solving, Leader Standard Work, and Daily Management routines
• Conduct time studies, process mapping, and bottleneck analysis across feed manufacturing processes
• Drive improvements in throughput, labor utilization, equipment uptime and cost performance
• Support implementation and follow-up on daily SQDCP boards
• Identify top SQDCP gaps and convert them into structured CI projects using PDCA, A3s, and root cause analysis
• Integrate safety and feed quality into all improvement activities
• Support Quality Engineering, CAPA, and deviation investigations
• Analyze production data including downtime, scrap trends, production variance, and throughput performance
• Track CI actions, verify cost savings, and maintain accurate project documentation
• Facilitate CI workshops, process improvement events, and on-site operator training sessions
• Support cross-plant kaizens and best practices sharing
• Serve as a local technical resource for feed manufacturing processes
• Document processes and support standardization efforts
• Travel to support multi-site improvement initiatives

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering or equivalent experience
• Leverage Lean and data-driven problem-solving experience
• Show strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Be comfortable working on the production floor with operators and supervisors
• Be willing to travel up to 50–70%
• Have comfort working on the production floor with operators and supervisors
• Travel required up to 75% in the beginning, will get to a 50% level