Primary Mission

A continuous improvement or Lean engineer audits the processes within the organization in order to propose measures to improve their performance. He or she develops a roadmap for Lean implementation, taking into account technical and organizational factors as well as human factors, in order to address the four key objectives: safety, quality, costs, and lead times (customer satisfaction).

Responsibilities

• Analysis of how a process or organization operates
  • Determine the roadmap for key projects and set priorities with management.
  • Analyze performance metrics, data, and business challenges.
  • Assess the performance of existing production facilities.
  • Identify operating modes and procedures, as well as completion times.
• Coordinating the continuous improvement initiative
  • Initiate and lead lean management projects: reorganization and improvement of productivity, production, and ergonomics (metrics, 5S initiatives, workflow management, etc.).
  • Identify areas for improvement and the implementation of action plans related to production resources.
  • Identify and implement performance metrics.
  • Use and implement tools for continuous improvement (lean manufacturing, the Kaizen philosophy, 5S, etc.).
  • Oversee the qualification and validation phases of processes and tools.
  • Communicate with key stakeholders, including project managers and production managers.
• Support for the implementation of improvements
  • Implement new techniques or methods for continuous improvement.
  • Support IT teams in the field and develop specifications that enable the optimization of production and the deployment of the information system in order to model analytical processes.
  • Train stakeholders on the tools and models.
  • Oversee and ensure their proper implementation.
  • Plan project-related activities.
  • Facilitate cross-functional working groups to roll out the continuous improvement process to all teams.
  • Train technical and production teams in continuous improvement tools.
  • Implement the TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) approach.
  • Train and support all affected frontline staff.