Continuous Improvement Engineer
Adient
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- Location
- San Antonio, United States
- Work style
- On-site
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 20
- 2 days ago
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About the company
Adient
Automotive · 10,001+ employees
What you'll do
- Identify gaps in Best Business Practice Metrics and establish improvement strategies
- Assess value streams and develop future-state visions and implementation plans
- Establish C.I. Profit Plan and Forecast goals and drive the team to achieve them
- Prepare detailed plans, drive project performance, and assure timely completion
- Develop a department or plant C.I. Roadmap with leadership
- Identify barriers to project success and help drive changes
- Drive best-practice sharing and implementation across business units
Key skills
Lean Six SigmaDMAICSix SigmaLean ImplementationBest Business Practice Metricsvalue streamsSOW development
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Identify gaps in Best Business Practice Metrics (BBP’s), and then work with all levels of the plant in establishing and executing a strategy for improving them.
Assess the current state of the department or plant’s value streams; develop future state vision and drive and monitor the implementation plan.
Coaches CI team, including department or plant staff, Lean Six Sigma Black Belts and other CI practitioners (Green Belts, Lean practitioners, KT practitioners) to apply correct tools and the DMAIC milestones for continuous improvement.
Establishes C.I. Profit Plan and subsequent Forecast goals; Drives team to achieve.
Ensures Process Owner involvement in SOW development and team leadership.
Using standard tracking and reporting systems, will prepare detailed plans, drive project performance, and assure timely completion and achievement of product/process quality, and savings goals.
Collaborate with leadership to develop a department or plant C.I. Roadmap, driving breakthrough or Best-in-Class performance that balances resources between internal efficiency and external customer-focused effectiveness projects through 1. Just Do It improvements, 2. Six Sigma projects, and 3. Lean Implementation projects.
Assists Process Owners in identifying barriers to project success and helps to drive changes when needed.
Drive and support best practice sharing and implementation across business units.
Identifies and brings forward to Champion new project opportunities.
Assist Plant Manager in any strategic initiative that will help in compliance to standards, implementing new systems, and designing creative solutions that will continuously improve the plant.
Is accountable to deliver the plant or department's annual CI goals.
PRIMARY LOCATION
Avanzar San Antonio Facility