Lean Engineer

• ◆Directly responsible for performing work in a safe manner and maintaining a safe work environment. This includes being responsible for their own safety, as well as that of others that may be at the facility, whether working, visiting, or apart of the Lean Organization. This individual will be responsible for observing safe work practices and being proactive at reporting and fixing any unsafe conditions.
• ◆Continuously developing lean skills individually, as a part of the Lean Organization, and within the plant as a whole. This includes learning and occasionally teaching current lean principles/methodology in order to overcome obstacles and start establishing a lean culture at the plant. This individual will work to become a trained lean facilitator, able to facilitate Kaizen events at the plant directly linked to both the foundational and transformational competencies.
• ◆Planning and facilitating 3-4 Kaizen events per year. This could include workshops focused on Value Stream Mapping, Kanban, SMED, 5S etc. with oversight and help from the Lean Organization. Each workshop will have an agenda, deliverables defined and managed, and outcomes/next steps delivered to leadership. This individual will be responsible for the follow-up after each event to ensure actions identified are being deployed across the site.
• ◆Tracking cost savings per each Kaizen event and working with the appropriate resources to quantify and ultimately realize lean cost savings. This will require partnership with both Engineering and Finance in order to complete. Each Lean Engineer is expected to save $250K annually as a result of all the projects identified and executed after each Kaizen event.
• ◆Supporting the site’s 5S program in conjunction with participation in routine Gemba performance audits with leadership. In addition, this individual will provide support as required to the plant’s iKaizen program in order to challenge the norm and try new and innovative ideas in order to promote lean thinking/methodology.
• ◆Owning one of the plant’s Value Stream Maps including both current state and future state upkeep, along with creating a cadence for routine review and updating within the Lean Organization and cross-functionally with plant resources. This individual will be responsible for working the Engineering to have projects identified on the VSM be incorporated into the plant’s cost reduction portfolio with resourcing identified and managed.
• ◆Planning and implementing workplace flow/layout improvements in addition to analyzing new equipment installations, existing equipment movements, and equipment modifications in accordance with lean teachings and methodologies. This individual will also be responsible for updating layouts with any new relevant lean changes that need to be captured.
• ◆Participating in engineering design reviews for new technology and existing modifications to equipment. Additionally being an active member of the ergonomics team in order to assist in assessments and provide lean feedback relative to workstation changes.
• ◆Partnering with plant process engineering to establish the A3 process and subsequent deployment in order to drive root cause understanding of critical production issues. In addition, this individual will also be responsible for leading 5 PDCA’s every year, while maintaining the rigor of lean thinking, identifying root cause, and clearly demonstrating fundamental understanding of the issues identified.
• ◆Identifying and horizontally deploying benchmark opportunities at the division level and across the sister sites in partnership with the Lean Manufacturing Supervisor. Travel expected from this is less than 10% in order to facilitate best practice migration.

Travel

< 10%