Continuous Improvement Lean Engineer

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Company Overview & Values

At Play Power, we are not just a company; we’re a passionate family of brands dedicated to creating moments of joy and inspiration through play. As a global leader in crafting premier recreational equipment, our mission is to ignite imagination and fuel creativity in people of all ages. By joining our team of over 1600 employees across the world, you are joining a community that believes in the Power of Play!

If you're ready to make a lasting impact and bring laughter and fun to the lives of children and adults, explore our exciting opportunities to help us create a world where play knows no limits.

Company Values:

• Honesty and Integrity
• Respect and Caring for Others
• Openness and Collaboration
• Individual and Team Accountability
• Passion and Purpose

The Lean Engineer consistently improves on-time delivery, lead-times, efficiencies, and operating financial performance. Key working relationships include plant staff, functional leaders across departments and operators in the west plant (metal manufacturing) in Monett, MO. The successful candidate will be a hands-on CI leader to assist manufacturing operations in understanding and improving processes.

EXPECTATIONS

• The Lean Engineer will inspire management thinking by challenging current practices and methods through the deployment of Lean methodology at all levels of the site operations. This will be accomplished by establishing internal business partnerships to effectively execute strategic planning, value stream mapping, creating gaps analyses, identifying/prioritizing kaizen events, implementing tracking methods to measure results, and leading root cause/countermeasure analysis for misses.
• An evaluation of the business through “current state” mapping and the development of a Monett Action Plan.
• Implementation of Lean System principles across the sites, focusing on the basics of takt, flow, pull and level production.
• Teaching Lean Concepts and tools including:
  Daily Management, disciplined problem-solving, standardized work, job instruction, material pull systems, value stream mapping, lean scheduling methods, Kaizen activities, variation reduction, 5S, and Six Sigma related initiatives
• Administer training materials to facilitate the understanding of Lean Manufacturing improvement concepts and techniques to all levels of associates.
• Train and develop Kaizen leaders across the business.
• Developing the daily management plan and Gemba, through dialogue and communication with peers, to establish protocols and cadences for next-level efficiency practices; highlighted and evidenced through standard operating reviews.
• Promote and facilitate diagnosis of workflow impediments and other wastes throughout the business and provide expert counsel on appropriate tools to eliminate them.
• Promote and facilitate associate development in various tools, lean production, and Kaizen leadership. Facilitate networking and best practice sharing.
• Develop, track and report on all metrics quarterly associated with Lean and Continuous Improvement activities, including financial impact to executive leadership; this is a “high visibility” role.

REQUIREMENTS

• A bachelor's degree in Industrial or Mechanical Engineering, or related field highly preferred.
• Three or more years of experience utilizing Lean improvement concepts in a manufacturing or production environment required.
• SME/AME Lean Certification is a plus.
• Experience with a variety of Lean tools including but not limited to:
  Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, Pull Systems & Kanban, Daily Management, 5S/Visual…