What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lean Manufacturing Engineer position at Apolis?
Lean Manufacturing Engineer
6-12 Months.
Location : Los Angeles, CA
Duties and Responsibilities :
Use Lean and other manufacturing / industrial engineering tools to realize the site's transformational (breakthrough) objectives.
This includes :
- Understand strategic context, current state and analysis of relevant systems to identify opportunities aligned with strategy
- Create (and enhance existing) models to give insights
- Build support and momentum for key initiatives
- Lead and coach teams to drive change
- Ensure outcomes are achieved, visible and sustained
- Connect and collaborate with global, regional and OpU groups to bring good practices to the site and to share our good practices with others.
- Develop others through leading Lean implementations.
- Enhance existing pull systems and continue to replace push with flow and pull.
- Champion change and demonstrate key skills, particularly in root-cause problem solving and continuous improvement.
- Integrate effective organizational change management into every improvement
- Research and test improvements to processes, ensuring safety, quality and compliance with regulation / standards.
- Play an integral role in the planning and execution of the 2025 and 2027 production capacity increases, ensuring scalability and sustainability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges related to capacity expansion and operational excellence.
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