Process improvement Engineer Leader Lines

Overview

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The Process Improvement Engineer (PIE) is responsible for leading the FI Pillar, maintaining & improving true efficiency (TE), running efficiency (RE), production system capability, operational stability/variability, participating in Resource Conservation and sustainability initiatives, developing solutions to repetitive failures, asset utilization (Speed Balancing), yield reduction, and Plant operational cost reduction. The PIE partners with Operations, TPM, Quality, Finance, and Engineering & Maintenance to deliver improved results through process, capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.

• Develops mastery understanding for all processes and uses that to deliver improved TE, quality, yields, resource conservation (ReCon) and throughput. This includes understanding the physics and chemistry of how the production systems are designed to function, their limitations, and the impact of variation on throughput, reliability, yield, waste and quality.
• Provide Weekly, Period, and ‘Year to Date’ reliability and variability downtime analysis support to the operation, including data analysis of results in such areas as TE, RE, MS, MTBF, and X‑Matrix incorporating:
• Unplanned Downtime MS event frequency & duration trend analysis
• Unplanned MTBF and availability results and improvement plan
• Loss analysis in the rate, quality and yield & waste areas.
• Production system target rates determination & speed mapping
• TE improvement plans, activities, and progress (development, maintenance and update)
• TE recovery plans for new products / system alterations expected to negatively impact TE.
• Apply reliability expertise to stabilize and improve the operation driving variation down and seeking improved TE through capital, procedural, and operational improvements in both planned and unplanned downtime areas.
• Develop, Own, and Manage the TE Improvement Process for packaging and process, yields & waste, resource conservation and quality goals by production system.
• Support the Centerline System with AM teams, on changes to key process parameters, supporting visible plant centerline ‘health’ indicators is important.
• Actively Participate in Production System Problem Solving for ‘Tough’ problems. The PIE becomes involved in problems requiring deeper penetration and expertise. This includes identifying and formulating the problem statement, developing potential solutions, prioritizing actions, determining and performing the appropriate analysis, and leading efforts through resolution.
• Ensure efforts are integrated and support plant TPM efforts. The PIE is responsible to ensure the changes and modifications made are consistent with the AM, PM and other pillar efforts.
• Partner with the OC pillar in development of training material relating to TE, operational sequence of operation & the use of controls to regulate the process in achieving high TE / throughput / quality.
• Manage / support TE and ReCon Improvement projects where the PIE can add unique value. Provide project management services for selected projects focused improving the TE / availability / reliability / quality / yield /…