What are the responsibilities and job description for the Continuous Improvement Process Engineer position at Lakeside Book Company?
Phoenix Color® is a premier full-service, full-color printer with over 40 years of superior print experience. Drawing on a broad spectrum of materials and decorative technologies, Phoenix Color® produces memorable, value-added components, heavily-illustrated books and specialty commercial products.
Phoenix Color® has been servicing the publishing industry within the United States since 1979 and has formed lasting relationships with some of the biggest names in book publishing.
As a domestic manufacturer, we offer extensive, in-house digital pre-press capabilities and our technologically advanced UV printing platform supports an array of printing and finishing options. Our innovative special effects include foil stamping, UV embellishments and laminations, as well as our trademarked products LithoFoil®, MetalTone™, Look of Leather™ and VibraColor™.
Phoenix Color's® progressive innovation and commitment to quality will give your product the optimum eye-catching edge required in today's competitive marketplace.
Work Hours : Standard Working Hours
Location : 18249 Phoenix Drive. Hagerstown, MD 21742
Starting Pay : $90,000-$100,000 depending on experience
As our Continuous Improvement- Process Engineer, you will :
- Use your strong knowledge of process improvement methodology to analyze and interpret our manufacturing processes and data. Analyze trends or variations in order to define problems, prioritize, and drive solutions.
- Develop and implement short-term and long-term plans to improve product and process quality, cycle time, productivity, and equipment downtime.
- Create, monitor site metrics, and empower the team to understand and monitor the metrics too. Develop, implement improvement plans, and solicit ideas from all over the site.
- Facilitate team meetings and lead teams to implement methods of measuring and holding gains in processes.
- Train the team on continuous improvement methods and use of statistical analysis.
- Gather, analyze and interpret data through evaluation of current processes. Prepare reports, charts, tables and other visual aids to summarize operations and highlight findings.
- Teach the team about Continuous Improvement methodologies
- Lead and facilitate activities targeted at cost reduction, productivity and process optimization, and quality performance.
- Evaluate our process improvement opportunities, define process metrics, and develop improvement plans
- Coordinate with other departments to prioritize process improvements to achieve operational excellence.
- Be a daily advocate of benefits of continuous improvement while dealing with various perceptions of the tools and their ability to impact the organization.
- 10% travel is required for improvement projects.
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Learn more at www.phoenixcolor.com.
Phoenix Color provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Salary : $90,000 - $100,000
