Manufacturing Engineer and Continuous Improvement Manager

This hybrid role as both a Manufacturing Engineer and Continuous Improvement Manager i s responsible for optimizing production processes by analyzing current methods, designing and implementing improvements to equipment and workflows, collaborating with cross-functional teams to maximize efficiency and minimize costs. Additionally, this role will also have additional focus on ensuring that the organization's products and services follow the company's quality requirements, in addition to complying with customer and regulatory requirements for quality, safety, and reliability supporting our transformer remanufacturing facilities.

Innovation and cost reduction initiatives beyond the committed reductions via productivity and efficiency gains

• Process design and optimization of throughput & quality
• Apply and train VSM, Lean Manufacturing, and 5S skills to effectively map the manufacturing processes to identify and implement process improvement opportunities and developing / documenting factory capacity and bottleneck analyses. Develop capacity improvement plans for inclusion into CI or capital planning.
• Lead factory initiatives around safety, quality, continuous improvement (CI), lean manufacturing, mistake proofing, root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Lead cultural change to a lean philosophy through communication of vision and expectations.

Equipment, tooling management and CapEx management

Manufacturing documentation and standards