What are the responsibilities and job description for the Continuous Improvement Engineer II position at Heraeus?
Permanent
About Heraeus
Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead.
About Heraeus Medevio
Together we improve lives. At Heraeus Medevio, we bring lifesaving and life-changing medical devices to market through partnerships with medical device manufacturing companies. Backed by Heraeus Group, we are committed to the growth of our teams and organization by providing an open space for open minds.
To reach our vision of improving 100 million lives every year, we foster a culture of curiosity that thrives on challenge, continuous learning, growth, and the opportunity to try new things. With sites in the United States, European Union, and Asia, and over 2,200 employees worldwide, together, we will meet tomorrow's challenges today.
What You'll Get To Do Every Day:
Curious? Apply now!
Heraeus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide fair and equal consideration to all qualified applicants, regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other legally protected characteristic. Diversity is at the heart of our Vision, Mission, and Values. We are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive workforce that reflects a broad spectrum of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives.
Any further questions?
If you need any assistance or have questions, please contact hrdirect-americas@heraeus.com or visit our website at www.heraeus.com.
About Heraeus
Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead.
About Heraeus Medevio
Together we improve lives. At Heraeus Medevio, we bring lifesaving and life-changing medical devices to market through partnerships with medical device manufacturing companies. Backed by Heraeus Group, we are committed to the growth of our teams and organization by providing an open space for open minds.
To reach our vision of improving 100 million lives every year, we foster a culture of curiosity that thrives on challenge, continuous learning, growth, and the opportunity to try new things. With sites in the United States, European Union, and Asia, and over 2,200 employees worldwide, together, we will meet tomorrow's challenges today.
What You'll Get To Do Every Day:
- Demonstrating leadership in conveying operational excellence principles, develop and implement global operational excellence standards as well as defining and implementing continuous improvement activities for various operational or business areas.
- Actively supporting the embedding of HPS Operational Excellence principles into the product and process development activities as well as in on-going operations.
- As a member of the CI Team, participating in the definition of HPS Global Operational Excellence standards.
- Rolling-out HPS Operational Excellence standards in coordination with the operational leaders.
- Training, mentoring, and coaching the engineering and operations teams in regards to the principles and methods of HPS Operational Excellence.
- Identifying, evaluating, supporting prioritization, and implementing operational improvement opportunities by utilizing lean principles and/or 6-sigma methodology, in conjunction with operational leaders.
- Conducting cost/benefit analysis for changes to processes and/or equipment as part of the identification, evaluation, and prioritization support of operational improvement opportunities.
- Supporting the optimization of process flows, line layouts, staffing and work-station design to improve product scalability and accommodate changes in product volume.
- Leading value stream mapping exercises to identify waste and area for improvement.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field; Industrial, Manufacturing or Mechanical preferred
- 2 years of relevant experience, or 4 years of experience in lieu of degree
- Good understanding of lean fundamentals and/or 6-sigma principles; Green Belt preferred
- Good interpersonal, leadership skills and self-motivation – change agent
- Ability to make basic data driven decisions
- Experience with AutoCAD and/or Simulation software is a plus
- Basic problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal, leadership skills and self-motivation – change agent
- Ability to train, mentor and coach
- Demonstrated experience with lean and/or 6-sigma (Six Sigma training and field experience preferred)
- Prior manufacturing process improvement accomplishments
- Strong project management skills
- Experience with business process reengineering is a plus
- Experience in working in international and intercultural environment is a plus
- Good technical understanding, good financials understanding
- Hands-on attitude
Curious? Apply now!
Heraeus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide fair and equal consideration to all qualified applicants, regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other legally protected characteristic. Diversity is at the heart of our Vision, Mission, and Values. We are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive workforce that reflects a broad spectrum of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives.
Any further questions?
If you need any assistance or have questions, please contact hrdirect-americas@heraeus.com or visit our website at www.heraeus.com.
Salary : $80,000 - $100,000
