Continuous Improvement Engineer

• Link lean Manufacturing activities to company objectives by developing and maintaining detailed value stream maps, metrics and control plans for the key processes.

• Educate and mentor colleagues of the company about Lean tools such as 5S, Kaizen, visual management, set-up reduction, etc.

• Integrate efforts across the company to ensure a focused and consistent approach for optimizing and standardizing processes.

• Serve as a change agent in institutionalizing the Lean “problem-solving” culture and toolset.

• Tracking of project progress and status.

• Weekly project status reports defining project’s progress to communicate to management.

• Coordinate meetings, prepare and/or edit meeting minutes and presentations.

• Drives clarity and focus in cross-group situations.

• Mitigates team conflict and communication problems.

• Maintain contact with project team members to ensure clarification of project goals and results.

• Follow up on action items with project team members to ensure that they are completed by their due dates.

• Effectively communicate relevant project information to management.

• Estimate project skill requirements and work with department managers to identify appropriate resources.

• Perform special projects as requested.