Continuous Improvement Lead

Are you ready to join a dynamic, innovative team and become an industry leader? Mubea is a global automotive supply company that can give you the career of your dreams. We employee over 15,000 employees in 20 countries and you could be one of them! If you are ambitious, focused, open minded and want be part of the development, manufacture and sales of technical products of the highest quality, specifically in the areas of chassis, body, powertrain, e‑mobility and electrification, you should apply now!

The incumbent will be responsible for the implementation of the Mubea Best Process / Mubea Production System. Leading and deploying lean methodologies, operational excellence initiatives and best practices throughout a business unit to reduce waste and continuously improve cost, productivity, lead time, safety and quality aspects within a plant.

• Leads plant teams in the implementation of lean manufacturing practices including but not limited to Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen.
• Provides training to associates in lean methodologies and foster involvement of all associates in continuous improvement initiatives.
• Leads 5S efforts for orderly plant and office housekeeping.
• Supports plant by ensuring employee safety and ergonomic conditions prior to implementing improvement projects.
• Identifies and implements cost reduction activities as assigned to meet the company’s goals.
• Recommends improvements to the manufacturing, maintenance, logistics, and engineering processes.
• Provides status reviews regarding continuous improvement efforts and removes obstacles to assure improvements are achieved and sustained.
• Responsible for the plant rollout of all lean tool implementation (i.e. Standardized Work, A3 Problem Solving, Change over Reduction, TPM, etc…).
• Supports process and plant layout, including work centre material flow.
• Implements reduction of material moves and inventory levels based on material flow planning.
• Administers and prepares operational and continuous improvement reporting as required by the plant, regional and global managers (i.e. Operational & CIP Implementation Scorecards, Plant Appearance Audits, Lean Assessments, etc…).
• Performs plant lean assessments and manages the closure of open issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required

Education & Experience:

• BS Industrial or Mechanical Engineering, preferably with Automotive focus
• 5+ combined years of experience in lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, quality, or engineering in an automotive manufacturing environment
• Previous lean manufacturing and project management experience
• Technical knowledge of lean manufacturing systems and tools (e.g. 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Work Balancing, Standard Work, TPM, SMED, etc.)
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
• Self‑starter, able to juggle multiple tasks, strong organization and time‑management skills
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word

Preferred

Education and Experience:

• BS Industrial or Mechanical Engineering, preferably with Automotive focus
• 5+ combined years of experience in lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, quality, or engineering in an automotive manufacturing environment
• Lean Manufacturing Certification
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
• 2+ years of experience as a lean practitioner
• Experience working in a Germany‑based (international) organization
• Bilingual German/Spanish a plus

Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit and stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability…