Misfits Market - Continuous Improvement Engineer II
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Requirements
• Five-to-seven years of hands-on experience in a manufacturing, warehouse and/or delivery operations environment. • Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, project management or equivalent experience. • Working knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and practices. • Minimum of a Yellow Belt Lean Six Sigma Certification is preferred, and capable of providing examples of the use of Lean tools. • Ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally with a variety of teams including Operations, HR, Supply, Innovation, Customer Care, and Marketing. • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, with little supervision and able to work in a changing environment with changing priorities. • Demonstrated experience recognizing and identifying root causes for subtle differences in processes and data sets. • Ability to Coach and to practice a very strong and disciplined Lean daily management approach at the point of value adding to enable a continual focus on process improvement to eliminate waste. This includes maintaining visual controls that track only the critical metrics, which tell you whether you are eliminating waste from your value-adding activities. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • A self-starter attitude and an ability to attack problems with minimal direction. • Strong Experience using Google Suite and Microsoft Office applications, and project management software such as Jira and Confluence. • Skilled in the use of MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint at an Intermediate level. • Skilled in learning new concepts quickly.
Responsibilities
• Work with cross-functional teams to support the launch of new projects and initiatives across the country, with a specific focus on our West Coast fulfillment operations. • Maintain a thorough understanding of our Production and Delivery Operations. • Responsible for supporting the team that manages the start-up, validation, and sustainment of our existing and incoming software and systems. • Recommend processes, procedures, and modifications to improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques and production yields for existing products. • Determine appropriate skills necessary for equipment/process operability and establishing training requirements. • Develop and coaches current CI Engineers, developing a deep bench of lean-focused teammates. • Analyze data, use of basic statistical tools, and use value stream mapping to gain a deeper understanding of processes and identify strategic improvement opportunities. • Employ a working knowledge of standard-work to ensure every work activity is properly defined, displayed (point-of-use) and accurately followed by every person to enable safety adherence, consistent quality and productivity being achieved. • Use basic Lean Principles to develop process improvement initiatives. • Manage a portfolio of lean projects directed at reducing waste and improving quality to provide greater valve; implements such tools as: 5S, KPI, SMED, VSM, and Kaizen. • Implement such tools as: SPC, Process Capability, Pareto analysis, Fishbone, SMED. • Create documentation for training materials such as checklists, standard work, and standard operating procedures. • Communicate plans and other agreements to stakeholders for alignment while listening to feedback and making modifications if appropriate. • Be a “leader of change”. Practice “Servant Leadership”. This person must be comfortable working with all levels within the organization. They must be able to question the status quo and be a strong communicator. • Strong analytical, planning, organizational, and time management skills. • Must maintain satisfactory attendance, to include timeliness and onsite presence at our Fulfillment Centers.
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