Production Excellence Engineer
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Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come.
JOB PURPOSE AND IMPACT
The Production Excellence Engineer II will be responsible for delivering production excellence processes and management systems focused on driving operational performance and value creation across manufacturing plants. In this role, you will use your knowledge to ensure alignment of key operational metrics.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Partner collaboratively with operations to analyze and develop recommendations regarding failures and lost production, and identify and implement solutions to improve systems, standard work, and processes.
- Implement and audit leading operational practices and purposefully raise performance by monitoring key performance indicators.
- Be responsible for leveraging the most effective approach to identify, monitor, and, where applicable, implement continuous improvement and best practice initiatives.
- Manage and implement proactive maintenance and reliability activities, production excellence activities, and continuous improvement initiatives for a less complex site or a single more complex department.
- Lead local and departmental alignment of stakeholders, including operations, environmental, and supply chain.
- Implement technology transfer packages to locations, including plant trial execution and local plant trial plans.
- Partner collaboratively with cross-functional regional leaders to leverage resources, knowledge, and strategies that increase value captured throughout the portfolio of production excellence projects.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
QUALIFICATIONS
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
- Lean Six Sigma and continuous improvement capabilities.
- Experience in executing continuous improvement projects in an industrial environment.
- Experience with operational excellence management systems (TPM, WCM).
- Project management experience.
- Advanced English proficiency.
- Availability to travel (up to 50% of the time).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge and application of safety principles and methodologies.
- Experience in creating complex tests and analyses.
- Project management experience.
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