Manufacturing Process Improvement Engineer

Company: Mannington Mills, Inc
Location: San Jose
Posted on: April 6, 2025

Job Description:

Manufacturing Process Improvement EngineerSummary: Uses Six Sigma, Lean, and other Operational Excellence tools and team-based structured problem solving to improve quality, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Leads and facilitates project teams to improve process capabilities, eliminate defects, and reduce manufacturing costs.Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

• Lead and support process improvement projects, deliver timely results, track improvement, and ensure control.
• Participate in the project selection process, identify projects, determine benefits, recommend resources and team members.
• Train others and mentor in Operational Excellence tools. Diffuse methods.
• Translate best practices within and across business.
• Identify organizational barriers and recommend solutions.
• Sell Operational Excellence through visibility and communication of successes.Supervisory Responsibilities: Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Education and/or Experience: Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to tasks such as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office, Mini-tab, Statgraphics, Microsoft Excel, and WinSPC or similar applications.Other Skills and Abilities: Design of Experiments and Six Sigma Skills.Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
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