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Continuous Improvement Engineer - Food

Provision People

Continuous Improvement Engineer - Food

Modesto, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Summary:

    Our award winning client is currently looking for a Continuous Improvement Engineer to work in their food manufacturing plant at their location in Central Valley, CA.

    Responsibilities:

    • Reporting directly to the Continuous Improvement Manager

    • Responsible for developing plans, schedules, and budgets for projects to improve existing food manufacturing processes

    • Ability to identify and eliminate unnecessary complexity within processes

    • Identifying opportunities to increase efficiency

    • Develop SOPs and various manufacturing processes across the organization

    • Assist in building a Daily Management System platform for plants for Operator, Supervisor, and plant leadership levels

    Required Skills and Experience:

    • Accredited Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt, preferably Black Belt

    • Minimum 5-7 years proven continuous improvement analytical experience from a similar role, including project management and business analysis with an excellent understanding of continuous improvement concepts including Six Sigma, Lean, value stream mapping

    • Ability to set-up, facilitate and lead service improvement sessions with a range of business stakeholders (incl. experience of process/value stream mapping)

    • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, including Project, Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint

    • Taking accountability for ideas from inception to delivery, in an environment that requires robust metrics to confirm success

    • Experience of designing or implementing a framework of continuous improvement in a multijurisdictional organization

    • Experience of hands-on implementation of continuous improvement programs and Lean solutions

    • Experience of designing remediation plans to address productivity and efficiency issues, and track record of following through to ensure closure

    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of employees and subject matter experts

    • Strong analytical, project and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into operational requirements

    • Experience of the whole project life cycle, able to operate in the initial conceptual design stage, in the depths of system testing, and at each stage in between