Lean Engineer

Purpose of the Position

• Identify manufacturing opportunities including productivity, capacity and cost
• Initiate or take lead the improvements to address the opportunities through LEAN method

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Identifies areas of potential manufacturing related productivity, capacity, and/or quality improvements, performs cost studies and justification analysis;
• Leads and implement improvements initiatives using Lean Manufacturing techniques to improve productivity, capacity, and/or quality when necessary;
• Ownership of plant wide Kaizen system: Maintain and track Kaizen system, facilitate and/or train for Kaizen events;
• Site champion for lean: proliferate usage of lean tools throughout the plant at all levels;
• Sets up and maintains plant wide productivity database;
• Key team member of OEE project;
• Communicates ideas and status clearly and professionally through graphic and written media, and oral presentations. Provides necessary documentation of activities and results.

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Engineering. Industrial Engineering background is preferred
• 5+ years’ experience on the position of lean engineering or related in manufacturing environment
• Strong record of results for a multi-national company
• Experience implementing Lean in a manufacturing environment including use of approaches such as (but not limited to);

• Kaizen Events & DMAIC process
• Value stream mapping
• Pull systems and kanban
• Standardized work
• Set up time reduction analysis 

Required Skills

• Working knowledge of: Lean/Simplification, cycle time reduction, cost analysis, Value Stream Mapping, line Balance/staffing, work cell design.
• Knowledge of (Lean) organizational design
• Auto CAD Computer Design tools.
• Fluent in written and oral English
• Excellent computer skills

Desired Skills

• Excellent project management and communication skills
• Knowledge of manufacturing excellence tools (AME, KT)
• Working experience with a MNC is preferred.