Manufacturing Engineer

Job 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: • Develops an OPEX deployment and roll-out plan to support the Plant and Platform business targets. • Leads the current state analysis and future state design of processes and identifies improvement opportunities and projects. • Supports the plant teams to prioritize, scope the OPEX activities and align these to Plant / Platform objectives. • Supports the plants with the OPEX implementation by conducting improvement events / projects (Line functions and working groups are responsible for implementation results) • Conducts training on needed methods and tools to support competency building for the workgroups. • Conducts coaching and performs assessments to ensure methodologies are applied correctly and deliver results. • Supports the Plant Manager in the governance, tracking of implementation actions, results, and ensures timely escalation. • Performs plant self-assessments to establish maturity levels; support the plant to implement the action fields. • Identifies, documents, and shares best practices with the corporate teams Accountability & Authority • Achieving savings as targeted by platform. • Identify, define and Mentor CI Projects in plant. • Monitor, track, and report project status • Guide teams for executing CI Projects with approach, tools, support and escalate when required. • Conduct Op-ex, operational excellence assessment and work for gaps to improve plant performance and achieve CI Objectives • Conduct training and organize kaizen events for improvements Requirements: • Typically,10+ Years of industrial experience5+ years of experience in Operation Excellence / CI. • Knowledge on Product – Valves manufacturing. • Manufacturing Process knowledge & Flow / Layout / Throughput time • Knowledge on Assembly & Testing • Reading of Drawings and tolerance requirements (GD&T) • Knowledge on SAP / ERP • Lean tools & applications - • 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 • 7 Quality Tool Practitioner (fishbone, 5 Why’s / Ishikawa, Histograms, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, Scatter Diagrams and Stratification) • 6S Improvements • Ability to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the business. • Experience in Power BI dashboard development • Application development / deployment experience with PowerApps and power platform business • Excellent oral, written and facilitation communication skills. • Experienced inn Industry or Business experience where LEAN or Operational Excellence is core to the business. • Knowledge on Data analysis & Visualization • Demonstrated Change Management Experience • Strong Facilitation Experience: Instructional Design is a plus. • QMS & EMS knowledge • Six Sigma or LEAN Certified