Continuos Improvement Engineer

Job Location: El Salto, Jalisco

Summary:

Position committed to quality and food safety carrying out activities directly and indirectly designing, developing, obtaining, manufacturing, distributing and/or selling our products to satisfy our customers and consumers.

Analyze manufacturing and management processes.  Develop understanding of key process indicators through all Supply Chain areas. Use analytical tools to identify key input variables and establish internal controls. Find ways to avoid waste and inefficiency in the processes within the supply chain, designing efficient systems that integrate workers, information, machines, energy and materials for the manufacture and distribution of our products.

Develop, document, and implement Lean Manufacturing methodologies, continually reviewing production flow to identify breakdowns and weaknesses.

Responsibilities:

-Processes improvement and Margin expansion

Analyze complex manufacturing and management processes.  Develop understanding of key process indicators through all Supply Chain areas. Use analytical tools to identify key input variables and establish internal controls. Identify and implement improvements to operating and business standards using engineering principles and creativity, participates and supports portions of predefined Engineering projects. Provides technical analysis for losses identification. Makes appropriate recommendations and participates in the design and implementation.

Supports plant equipment and production lines start-up improvement if needed.

Participates in the development of specific capital projects through completion.

Provides direction and support to the formulation, evaluation, strategy setting and presentation of product and process improvement alternatives by leading brainstorms, redesigns, and promotes implementation improvements to processes or equipment to improve safety, quality, customer service and cost.

Lean Manufacturing

Develop document and implement Lean Manufacturing methodologies, continually reviewing production flow to identify breakdowns and weaknesses.

Launch & lead kaizen events.    

Develop and support Hershey lean pillars (similar as TPM methodology) in Plant, drives effort and resources from different areas such as maintenance, production, engineering, EHS, Logistics and Quality to establish self-lead Teams and operators.

Project management and execution skills.

Identify and implement process improvement such as Safety, Quality, and Plant Efficiency.

Capital Program Administration and Projects

Work with Project Engineering team to ensure that new capital equipment designs meet the productivity requirements for the production environment including identification of anticipated work compliment and work balancing; identification of key process inputs; identification of planned maintenance activities, simplicity of changeover and cleaning, lay-out distribution, safety and ergonomic, financial analysis and integration with in-plant manufacturing execution systems. 

Support on loss analysis and savings definition on the Capital Projects presentation to the US global technical solutions teams, for capital approval.

Education:

-Industrial Engineer, Food Process Engineer, Chemical Engineer or related field and/or equivalent required experience.

-Lean six sigma green belt.

Experience:

-English Advanced

-OEE analysis & improvement,

-Downtime analysis, rework waste, % scrap.

-Line balancing, implementation of work methods, savings projects, project monitoring, lean manufacturing culture.

-Engineering fundamentals (Industrial engineering highly preferred)

-Quality assurance and quality control principles

- Process engineering

-Development and interpretation of Engineering documentation

-Best Manufacturing practices  

Technical Knowledge:
-SAP

-Experience implementing TPM methodology in another industry (Food industry preferred)

-Continuous improvement systems and methodologies including Lean Six Sigma tools. (TPM, SMED, 5s, visual management, Kaizen, Andon, Heijunka, Wastes elimination, JIT, ZBA, VSM, Line balancing methods, etc.)

-Ergonomic design

-Regulatory/code/standards compliance

-Excel intermediate-advanced

-Visio & Power Bi preferreds and processes knowledge

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