Manufacturing Performance Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities

• Drives and executes an effective continuous improvement and problem-solving program to improve safety, compliance, cost, process stability, building quality and efficiency into processes to improve performance and reduce losses of the plant.
• Identify process improvement opportunities with departmental leads based on data, facilitate sessions, lead and support execution of newly established improvements.
• Lead projects to improve productivity, reduce waste and improve overall equipment efficiencies (OEE) across manufacturing lines with target annual cost savings of $1M.
• Execute defined continuous improvement programs using lean six sigma manufacturing tools such as DMAIC, Standard work, KPI metrics, visuals, PDCA, SMED, Pareto Analysis, FMEA, A3 thinking, Time studies, Poka-yoke, Value-stream mapping and others.
• Support Plant management on food safety and quality issues and involve quality improvement activities, participate in CAPA, and facilitate RCA on quality issues.
• Analyze data by utilizing statistical tools and digital dashboards (Power BI, Tableau and other analytics) to create actionable insights, improve process capability and defect elimination.
• Leads, facilitates and coaches others in training events to develop employees on continuous improvement and High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) role model; promote servant leadership and Gemba Walks.
• Facilitates daily huddle meetings, drive “Win the Day” and other Daily Management System (DMS) meeting in collaboration with business leaders in the plant organization.
• Follow PIM Brands GMP rules and monitor fellow employees for adherence to GMP’s.

Qualifications

• A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
• Experience implementing CI processes using Lean Six Sigma and TPM methodologies
• Logical thinking and capacity to influence
• Experience in change-management processes
• Results oriented and prepared to deal with ambiguity
• Data driven mind set and experience using data driven tools
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, Be comfortable to deal and collaborate with shop floor employees, peers and Managers
• knowledge and capability to train others on CI program management and root cause problem solving skills to eliminate loss/waste.