Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Engineer (Travel) - Ecolab Inc.

Ecolab has an opening for a Manufacturing Excellence TPM Engineer in Supply Chain North America.  If you are a passionate professional seeking an opportunity to pursue unique regional projects enabling a large manufacturing organization, we invite you to apply.  Come help us drive breakthrough improvements in our network and take your career to the next level.  
  
Job Summary:
As a part of the Manufacturing Excellence team, you will be responsible for supporting plant operations in driving cost, material loss, and OEE improvements across the Legacy Ecolab network Manufacturing Plants. This is a Traveling Engineering/Project Management role, supporting a wide variety of functions within the Organization. -- Travel is expected 75% of the time.

You will lead efforts to improve operations leveraging our TPM tools and work with stakeholders to deliver improvement solutions.  You will help identify, scope, and execute projects with the plant operations team and deliver a pipeline of future projects.  Project timeline will vary but ideally will fall in 3-6 month timelines throughout the year.  The successful candidate will be a self-starter who will take the time to understand the existing operations, identify opportunities for improvement, and help build a roadmap to manufacturing excellence.  

Candidates must display a passion for systems, data, and continuous improvement. The strong performer can expect further career advancement opportunities with Ecolab and will have the chance to move into other roles within the organization, with increasing leadership opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity to advance your career within Ecolab.

 
Main Responsibilities 

• Identify critical operational projects to drive cost, material loss, and OEE improvements
• Project management of a portfolio on improvement projects

• Design and deploy new solutions for existing outdated data pipelines  
• Partner with the local plant team and regional TPM team in identifying projects, execution, tool deployment, and delivery of results  
• Proactively make recommendations and identify opportunities to enable manufacturing transformation within Supply Chain organization 
• Train others in systems, tools, and processes  
• Lead automation of processes and analyses 
• 75-100% travel depending on project location, and ability to work out of our physical sites while on assignment

*This is not a remote role.

• Basic Qualifications 
• Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in Chemistry, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering preferred 
• 2+ years experience in an analytical or business intelligence role, production management role, or project engineering role
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities 
• Familiarity with TPM tools – primarily AM, PM, and FI
• Operations financial knowledge and acumen

• Ability to create, implement, document, and continuously improve processes in a changing environment 
• Projects demonstrating strong automation mindset 
• Ability to travel up to 100% of the time
• Immigration sponsorship not available for this role

Preferred Qualifications 

• Training or experience in data engineering skills such as ETL, data warehousing, database systems, data analysis, and machine learning 
• History of managing and delivering multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously 

Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits. 

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At Ecolab, we believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every associate can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.

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