Senior Continuous Improvement Engineer

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Senior Continuous Improvement Engineer leads the implementation of lean principles tools, systems, and behaviors throughout the organization. This position works with stakeholders to identify and facilitate key projects that will improve safety, quality, cycle and lead time, and provide the optimum benefits to the business through waste reduction. You will train teams in lean manufacturing tools and systems such as Kanban, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Visual Management and Kaizen. In addition, you will manage project activities including communication, timeline, meeting facilitation, data gathering and  processing, solution implementation and follow-up.    

Duties

• Building and implementing a Warehouse Management System in Oracle. 
• Perform hands-on execution of Lean transformation projects.
• Progressively apply advanced Lean principles, techniques, methods, and tools (Shingijutsu).
• Deliver Lean curriculum per the Lean Course Catalog. Conduct in-person training ranging from orientation to problem solving to lean principles and tools.
• Facilitate Kaizen events; monitor and measure to ensure sustainment of results.
• Provide guidance to stakeholders on Lean tools and principles including set-up reduction, standardized work, valuestream mapping, and problem solving.
• Monitors and oversees Kaizen event follow up activities.
• Estimate production or process times, staffing requirements, and related costs to provide information for management decisions including Capital expenditure requests.
• Perform cost/benefit analysis. Maintains records of Kaizen event metrics.
• Complete Capital Appropriation Requests, provide input into organization budget planning.
• Maintains current knowledge and serves as a technical expert in Lean tools and principles including set-up reduction, standard work, value stream mapping, A3 problem solving, etc.
• Other duties that may be assigned.

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Required Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering ore related technical field.
• 5 - 7 years of related experience (could include internships) working in a CI capacity with lean principle applications.
• Experience in a similar related industry/work environment (e.g. manufacturing, service, distribution, etc.).
• Demonstrated application of lean tools.
• Demonstrated passion for continuous improvement.
• Supervisory skills, demonstrated business acumen.
• Demonstrated effective skills: organization, logic/reasoning, interpersonal, communication (oral and written), accuracy and detail.
• Bronze certification from AME/SME or the ability to certify within 6 months in role.

Preferred Experience

• Experience implementing a Warehouse Management System. 
  • Preferably in Oracle. 

Work Schedule

• This is an onsite schedule position based at our warehouse in St Louis, MO. 
• The schedule is: M-F dayshift hours.

 

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.  We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.