Continuous Improvement Engineer - The Planet Group

Our client is North Americas largest garage door manufacturer. They are looking to bring on a Continuous Improvement Engineer at their Troy, OH location. The ideal candidate would have 5 years of CIE experience in a manufacturing environment.

Position Responsibilities

• Promote safety and ensure a safe work environment
• Support and train 5S throughout the plant
• Understand, determine necessary changes, and contribute to the creation of engineering labor standards
• Assist in the continued development, training, coaching, and implementing of the front-line management system
• Monitor, track, and improve manufacturing efficiency
• Assess and develop processes that deliver required results in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Contribute ideas to budget development and determine ways to support plant leadership in controlling and reducing labor costs
• Formulate short- and long-term operating objectives in cost reduction, quality improvement, and new product integration.
• Develop and maintain a partnership with supporting areas including scheduling, materials, engineering, and maintenance.
• Establish machine and labor capacity analysis on critical processes.
• Response to customer feedback and complaints.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory bodies and prepare for audits. 
• Develop a playbook for labor assignments within all production areas that assists line leaders in making staffing adjusts to counter changing customer demand
• Develop high performance work teams thru teaching of problem solving, Kaizen, and other lean principles
• Drive a continuous improvement culture
• Analyze actual production methods and establish best practices in order to standardize processes within and between plants

 
Job Requirements/Qualifications
 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent education plus experience.
• Minimum of 5 years' of demonstrated continuous improvement experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experienced in implementation of lean manufacturing concepts.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong developer of teams.