What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Improvement Manager position at PASA Panasonic Automotive Company?
About Us
Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (PASA) is an industry-leading global supplier to Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Our mission is to deliver innovative solutions that enhance the consumer experience.
Job Description
- We are seeking a highly skilled Continuous Improvement Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for researching, designing, developing, implementing and improving processes to enhance schedule performance, lower costs, and improve quality through application of Lean/Value Analysis-Value Engineering concepts, techniques, analysis and decision tools within high-volume automotive distribution and logistics environment.
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Labor Management and experience working in high-volume automotive manufacturing or warehousing environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing meaningful productivity metrics and KPIs for large-scale automotive warehousing environment.
- Surveys, benchmarks and develops gap analysis to industry benchmark KPIs for order fulfillment, receipts, picks, put-aways and shipments in automotive Tier1 or OEM environment.
- Leading projects (ERP, cap-x, in/outsourcing etc.) to close gaps to industry benchmarks.
- Adequate LI representation in meetings and real-time communication to Site Director on issues requiring escalation.
- Ongoing communication with corporate, factory, and LI Operations to ensure operation is running efficiently and with enough capacity to meet customer demand.
- Constant review of team activity and value-added work to identify gaps and assess the possibility of using outside vendors to offset peaks in workload.
- Collaboration is a vital leadership style and skill necessary for success at PASA.
