SR. Continuous Improvement Engineer

Summary

Responsible for the administration Continuous Improvement department securing Hershey Lean program implementation and cost savings efforts. Responsible for leading the Continuous Improvement vision and processes to drive significant improvement in safety, quality, customer service and cost. Assures alignment of CI processes with plant and company goals. Together with the plant leadership team, develops an audit process to ensure proper accountabilities for results. Provides leadership, coaching and training across all shifts to create an environment that engages the total workforce.

Responsabilities

• Administration and Control of Continuous Improvement team
• Develop & lead CI culture along the Hershey Mexico organization
• Lead Hershey Lean programs and deployment within organization
• Coordinate CI project Management to comply with savings tasking
• Provides direction and support to the formulation, evaluation, strategy setting and presentation of product and process solution alternatives
• Brainstorms, designs, and promotes implementation improvements to processes or equipment to improve safety, quality, customer service and cost along the organization of Hershey Mexico
• Provides leadership and supervision to operations, CI programs and business units
• Responsible for business information communication and team formation.
• Identifies and develops CI tools
• Coaches, directs and trains salary and hourly personnel to utilize available tools
• Coordinates internal and external resources for opportunity evaluation and implementation of CI processes
• Develops and delivers training to support and enhance employee engagement in the CI process
• Provide executive information to supply direction periodically
• Provides leadership on audit process to ensure accountability and growth
• CAPEX process approval leadership and engineering support
• Develops facility specific projects through completion and serves as project leader during development and approval 

Generals

• Coach his team to secure area goals are timely achieved
• Provides direction to his team
• Lead SBGs program with his staff
• Build succession plans inside its team
• Designs and executes training programs to develop required skills for each position under his umbrella
• Develop CDAP plans for each team member at CI

Skills:

-English advanced

-Leadership

-Effective Communication

-Capacity for analysis and synthesis

-Capacity to work under pressure

-Teamwork

-Resilient

-Problem Solving Mindset

Education:

- Engineering Degree Industrial, or any related Engineering

Experience:

-5 years experience in leading CI areas or leading Lean programs implementation

-3 years of Food process experience.

-Generate improvement projects through supply chain, logistics, warehouses, purchasing of materials, all material transformation, product formulas, packaging, product development, logistics at the customer distribution level

-Work with supply chain to improve processes.

-Optimization of work in work cells, balancing of lines, industrial engineering processes, optimizing times and movements.

- Implement lean methodology, relaunch of lean manufacturing methodologies, based on TPM.

- Savings strategies, financial concepts, operating costs, distribution, calculation of savings projects, operating benefits, financial impact.

- Desirable Project Management Diploma

- Lean Six Sigma Certificate (Black Belt certification) must have knowledge of the methodology.

- Lean Six Sigma program implementation and cost savings efforts.

- Focused on efficiency projects and improvements within production lines.

- Knowledge of the supply chain and logistics.

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