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Continuous Improvement Engineer
4 weeks ago
Customers across aerospace, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency.
Every day approximately 8,700 employees are helping customers in more than 60 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $2 billion in revenues in fiscal 2022. Learn more at kennametal.Follow Kennametal:
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Continuous Improvement Engineer
Location - Asheboro, NC but will have multiple site responsibility. Travel expected approximately one week per month
Job Summary
The Plant Continuous Improvement Engineer is responsible for implementing continuous improvement initiatives, analyzing existing processes, identifying areas for improvement, and leading kaizen activities to optimize operations and increase efficiency.
They will collaborate with plant management to drive alignment, gain support, train personnel and implement improvement initiatives.Key Job Responsibilities
Lean COMPETENCES
- Implement Lean methodologies: The Continuous Improvement Engineer applies Lean principles, tools, and techniques such as 5S, Kaizen, Standard Work, and Muda hunting to identify and eliminate waste in processes.
- Develop the Lean competences of the operation through training & coaching.
- Help to define the Lean strategy of the operation in accordance with Plant / Site priorities and ensure deployment of Kennametal Operation/Production System within the operation area.
- Help Plant / Production Manager to manage continuous improvement and to continuously detect abnormalities vs Lean standards and react.
- Process analysis and optimization: by analyzing existing processes at the site to identify areas of improvement.
- Training and coaching: The Site Continuous Improvement Engineer provides training and coaching to site personnel on Lean principles and methodologies.
- Kaizen workshop management: The Continuous Improvement Engineer leads and manages Lean projects at the site.
Lean RESULTS
- Data analysis and reporting: The Site Continuous Improvement Engineer collects and analyzes data related to site performance, process metrics, and key performance indicators.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement at the site and engage site personnel at all levels, encouraging them to contribute ideas, provide feedback, and participate in improvement initiatives.
- Deploy lean standards & best practices within the operation and regional/global OpEX team.
- Highlight the main responsibilities:
- Develop his/her own competences and skills in tools and methodologies useful for the operation area.
- Train operation team members to lean tools, standards & methodologies & ensure that lean standards are known and applied properly.
- Participant regional/global kaizen week, share good practice kaizen workshop.
- Participant lean tool improvement working group, contribute the lean standard/tool improvement.
- Ensure that lean rules are considered in new projects at an appropriate phase.
- Help the production Manager to keep a continuous improvement mindset, behavior & policy, whatever the operational situation.
- Organize annual VSM going through the production and propose the yearly workshops list.
- Help to define the lean strategy of the production and prepare the operation budget concerning lean targets & budget.
- Manage the deployment of KPS within the production: manage production self assessment with production team members and improvement action plan.
- Deploy lean standards & best practices within the production team.
- Coach operation team members on application of lean tools and methodologies through On Job Training.
- Support workshop pilots, lead workshops and implement improvement proposals.
- Permanently help plant/production Manager to detect and react to non conformances against lean standards.
- Manage the maintenance of lean tools through appropriate audits (like KPS, 5S, Kanban audits, leader standard work) : audit organization, performance & follow up.
- Prepare & organize the weekly production lean committee (incl.
- Check regularly in depth the proper deployment of lean in the operation area.
- Support kaizen workshop pilots on methodology and results achievement.
- Lead himself/herself permanently workshops and implement improvement proposals.
- Permanently promote the lean principles.
- Ensure a lean reporting, KOS metrics correct.
- Quarterly lean mission report, share with site management team kaizen workshop status and saving achievements.
Requirements
- At least 1 year Production or logistic supervisor, process engineering related experience.
- Knowledge and practice experience of the following tools:
- Strong communication, teaching and coaching skills.
- Standard work and cycle time measurement.
- Muda Hunting
- SMED
- TPM
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