Sr. Continuous Improvement Engineer

Department: Continuous Improvement

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: North Kingstown, RI

Compensation: $90,000 - $120,000 / year

Description

The Sr. Continuous Improvement (CI) Engineer will identify and drive operations and supply chain improvements in order to meet or exceed safety, quality, delivery, cost, and efficiency goals.  The Sr. CI Engineer will train and implement lean principles by supporting our North Kingstown Rhode Island manufacturing site. This position will work closely with all levels of assigned locations to ensure that best practices and continuous improvement are a part of our culture.


 

How You Will Help

• Collaborate with site teams to deploy a local lean strategy to achieve business objectives and financial targets.
• Implement lean and continuous improvement initiatives including value steam mapping processes, kaizen events, 5S, visual factory, and other lean tools and principles in alignment with the ASC Business System
• Engage with leadership at various facilities to set specific targets to functionally and strategically achieve improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Innovation metrics.
• Deploy lean daily management and drive adoption of standard work, deploy proven problem-solving methods at all levels
• Drive the kaizen event and continuous improvement funnel from identification of opportunities to full implementation of improvements.
• Support building strong location teams by mentoring and coaching, and providing formal and informal lean training at all levels
• Analyze site issues regarding costs, profits, margins, capacity utilization, yields, and supply chain sources effectively distilling information into actionable projects.
• Support technology innovation throughout the network
• Engage in the company wide network of CI practitioners to accelerate best practice sharing, process and tool development.

What You Will Bring

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Engineering or other technical field
• Minimum 5 years in manufacturing and/or distribution with 3 years in Lean/CI implementation focus, including experience leading/facilitating kaizen events and bringing transformational change to a medium or larger sized manufacturing site (distribution experience helpful)
• Subject matter expertise and practical lean deployment experience with tools like Kaizen, VSM, Problem Solving, Daily Management, TPM, 5S, Heijunka, Standard Work, Kanban, Continuous Flow, Poke Yoke, and others 
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship both now and within the future

Preferred:

• Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement certifications
• Project Management and Quality Management experience

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $115,000.00 USD annually*. 

*The salary range for this position reflects a reasonable estimate of the range of compensation for this role. ASC Engineered Solutions’ philosophy on compensation is based on careful consideration of additional factors such as (but not limited to) an individual’s education, training, work experience, job-related skill set, location, and industry knowledge, as well as the scope and responsibilities of the position and market considerations.