Full-Time
Continuous Improvement Engineer
Crescent Park
Compensation Overview
$95k - $105k/yr
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
In Person
Category
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Required Skills
Six Sigma
Data Analysis
Requirements
- Lean Six Sigma certification - Green Belt required.
- Demonstrated passion and commitment to Continuous Improvement Mindset.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Continuous Improvement environment.
- Strong understanding of Lean principles, Six Sigma methodologies, statistical analysis, and process mapping.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively present information and influence stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, coach and mentor employees, and drive change management.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the capability to perform root cause analysis and implement sustainable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Process Optimization: Lead initiatives focused on Lean principles, value stream mapping, and waste elimination to improve operational efficiency.
- Training and Development: Deliver training programs to instill a Continuous Improvement mindset, ensuring people are equipped with the necessary tools and techniques.
- Standardization: Create Standard Operating Procedures, Standard Work Instructions, Leader Standard Work, policies and procedures.
- Program Management: Oversee Continuous Improvement activities, including the implementation of a Continuous Improvement Tracker to monitor progress and results.
- Cultural Transformation: Act as a coach and mentor to people, embedding a culture of problemsolving and innovation.
- Safety: Full comprehension and adherence to the Crescent Safety Playbook – Doing it Safe.
- Safety: Assess and remove all unnecessary risk within our business.
- Safety: Perform Job Hazard Analysis.
- Safety: Improve plant layout and equipment to ensure we operate safely.
- Safety: Understand ergonomic risks and develop solutions to eliminate the risks.
- Safety: Develop safe and efficient workspaces.
- Safety: Participate in accident investigations and develop process solutions to eliminate root cause of injuries / accidents.
- Quality: Do what is right for our customers, company, and people.
- Quality: Identifying, analyzing and implementing continuous improvement opportunities in the quality organization.
- Quality: Determine business and process path DPMO and sigma rating.
- Quality: Adhere to all quality standards.
- Quality: Ensure our customers’ needs for quality are understood and built into each process.
- Quality: Ensure root cause and problem-solving thinking is used in addressing all Quality issues.
- Quality: Evaluate processes to ensure target conditions are met, and actions put in place when they are not met to include detailed root cause analysis and mitigation strategy.
- Productivity: Lead Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Develop and implement ideas for process improvement projects across all functions, manage the Continuous Improvement pipeline and savings tracker.
- Productivity: Lead customer ideation sessions for Value Creation and Continuous Improvement activities.
- Productivity: Lead continuous improvement events utilizing the Plan, Do, Learn, Do Better mentality and the DMAIC process (i.e., Value stream mapping events, kaizens, Problem solving, 3P, Flow, etc.).
- Productivity: Lead engineering projects – Capex, managing vendors, budgets and timelines.
- Productivity: Perform time studies and other analysis to understand opportunities for improvement.
- Productivity: Develop Standard Operating Procedures that define tasks necessary to accomplish the given Value Stream Map.
- Productivity: Develop Standard Work Instructions that clearly state how to perform each task identified in the various SOPs.
- Productivity: Develop Leader Standard Work necessary to ensure system and process adherence.
- Productivity: Reduce line change over and setup times.
- Productivity: Problem-Solving: Facilitate root cause analysis and problem-solving workshops to address complex issues and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- People: Collaborate and help drive the Continuous Improvement Service Culture.
- People: Culture: Enhance and cultivate Crescent’s Continuous Improvement Service Culture Demonstrating Do it Right, Do it Safe and Do it Well. Be a Crescent Continuous Improvement Service Culture leader and involve others in IE and CI activities.
- People: Lean & Six Sigma Methodologies: Apply Lean, Six Sigma, and other quality tools to foster a culture of continuous improvement, mentor to team members to help develop their understanding of Industrial Engineering and Lean tools.
- People: Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with all departments to align and integrate improvement strategies.
- Customer Value: Lead the Customer CI sessions, drive the CI pipeline and track CI projects.
- Customer Value: Build and maintain strong and collaborative working relationships with the site’s key Customer(s).
- Customer Value: When needed support new site / Customer launches.
- Customer Value: Work with the sites to ensure customer contractual obligations are met. Understand all contracts and Continuous Improvement Commitments.
- Financial: Identify and implement Continuous Improvement projects that will financially benefit both Crescent and our Customers.
- Financial: Lead and support Continuous Improvement project tracking to include financial impact of projects and activities.
Desired Qualifications
- Understanding of Co-Packaging and Parts Fulfillment business.
- Experience with MRP / ERP Systems.
- Continuous Improvement Strategy implementation.
- Experience as a Lean Coach / Teacher.