Manufacturing Engineer
Description
Role Summary
This role involves facilitating continuous improvement implementation at the business level. Shall lead/facilitate cross-functional teams in the application of Continuous improvement tools to achieve process improvements. Accountable for teaching/coaching Lean enterprise methods and integrating with the business to form and execute business improvement plans that deliver tangible benefits to business performance. This role will contribute to build a people-first culture that delivers significant business results.
Responsibilities
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Develops an OPEX deployment and roll-out plan to support the Plant and Platform business targets.
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Leads the current state analysis and future state design of processes and identifies improvement opportunities and projects.
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Supports the plant teams to prioritize, scope the OPEX activities and align these to Plant / Platform objectives.
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Supports the plants with the OPEX implementation by conducting improvement events / projects (Line functions and working groups are responsible for implementation results)
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Conducts training on needed methods and tools to support competency building for the workgroups.
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Conducts coaching and performs assessments to ensure methodologies are applied correctly and deliver results.
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Supports the Plant Manager in the governance, tracking of implementation actions, results, and ensures timely escalation.
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Performs plant self-assessments to establish maturity levels; support the plant to implement the action fields.
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Identifies, documents, and shares best practices with the corporate teams
Accountability & Authority
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Achieving savings as targeted by platform.
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Identify, define and Mentor CI Projects in plant.
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Monitor, track, and report project status
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Guide teams for executing CI Projects with approach, tools, support and escalate when required.
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Conduct Op-ex, operational excellence assessment and work for gaps to improve plant performance and achieve CI Objectives
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Conduct training and organize kaizen events for improvements
Requirements
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Typically,10+ Years of industrial experience5+ years of experience in Operation Excellence / CI.
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Knowledge on Product – Valves manufacturing.
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Manufacturing Process knowledge & Flow / Layout / Throughput time
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Knowledge on Assembly & Testing
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Reading of Drawings and tolerance requirements (GD&T)
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Knowledge on SAP / ERP
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Lean tools & applications -
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Practitioner of Lean tools including VSM (Value Stream Mapping), OFP Operations Flow Process, Material-flow, Structured problem-solving methodology, OEE, Product-process / machinery matrix, Activity analysis, Future state design, Lean Layouts, FIFO, Kitting process, Shop Floor Management & Office floor management
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7 Quality Tool Practitioner (fishbone, 5 Why’s / Ishikawa, Histograms, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, Scatter Diagrams and Stratification)
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6S Improvements
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Ability to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the business.
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Experience in Power BI dashboard development
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Application development / deployment experience with PowerApps and power platform business
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Excellent oral, written and facilitation communication skills.
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Experienced inn Industry or Business experience where LEAN or Operational Excellence is core to the business.
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Knowledge on Data analysis & Visualization
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Demonstrated Change Management Experience
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Strong Facilitation Experience: Instructional Design is a plus.
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QMS & EMS knowledge
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Six Sigma or LEAN Certified
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