Continuous Improvement Engineer

Overview

Builder’s Best is a manufacturer of residential and commercial venting solutions with 35+ years of experience, 15+ patents, 1000+ SKUs, and multiple models of semi-rigid aluminum duct, metal hoods, specialty elbows, close clearance periscopes, and more. Builder’s Best supplies national companies with a wide range of venting products. Our mission is to provide quality venting materials at reasonable prices built here in the USA.

Our headquarters is in Jacksonville, Texas. We also maintain a manufacturing and distribution plant in Plant City, Florida. As of 2024, Builder’s Best is part of the Duravent Group, a global HVAC technology leader with a $500 million+ company footprint, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and 15 locations across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Duravent leads with design, manufacturing, distribution, and customer-first service and support.

The combined company is positioned as a next-generation leader in interior climate technology. Our team of passionate professionals needs you!

This Role
Our Engineering team is seeking a Continuous Improvement Engineer
. This would be a full-time, on-site role located in Jacksonville, TX reporting to our Plant Manager.

The Continuous Improvement Engineer is responsible for driving process optimization, reducing waste, and improving product quality across the HVAC manufacturing plant. This position leads key improvement projects, applies Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, and partners with cross-functional teams to strengthen operational discipline and performance. The role is central to sustaining a culture of continuous improvement and supporting the plant’s long-term operational excellence strategy.

• Identify, plan, and lead CI initiatives that improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance.
• Apply Lean tools such as 5S, SMED, Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, Six Sigma problem-solving, and Kaizen.
• Track and report project progress, including cost savings, cycle-time improvements, and KPI impact.

• Analyze manufacturing processes to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and waste.
• Develop and implement data-driven improvement plans that reduce downtime and increase throughput.
• Partner with production teams to validate process changes and monitor results.

• Promote Lean practices throughout the plant and ensure standard adoption.
• Facilitate Kaizen events, improvement workshops, and problem-solving activities with cross-functional teams.
• Coach employees at all levels on Lean tools and CI principles to build internal capability.

• Identify and eliminate material waste, rework, excessive motion, over processing, and other forms of waste.
• Support initiatives such as TPM, JIT inventory management, and defect-reduction efforts.
• Analyze trends and operational data to drive additional efficiency gains.

• Work closely with Quality to address defect trends and implement corrective actions.
• Conduct root cause analysis using disciplined problem-solving methods (5-Why, Fishbone, DMAIC).
• Support deployment of SPC, PFMEA, and other quality improvement tools.

• Gather and analyze production data, cycle times, downtime causes, and scrap trends.
• Use data-analysis tools to identify improvement opportunities.
• Prepare reports and present recommendations clearly and factually to plant leadership.

• Collaborate with Production, Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, and Materials teams to drive improvement actions.
• Communicate project updates, risks, and results in a clear and structured manner.
• Encourage a disciplined, data-oriented culture on the shop floor.

• Develop and deliver training on Lean concepts, problem-solving, standard work, and CI methodologies.
• Provide ongoing coaching to support sustainment of improvements.
• Strengthen employee engagement in improvement activities.

• Ensure CI activities comply with all safety and environmental requirements.
• Identify…