Lean Engineer

Lean Engineer

Position Summary: The Lean Engineer plays a key role in the Dwyer Omega team. Enables the elimination of waste from manufacturing and transactional processes. Drives implementation of the company's lean initiatives. Serves as a business partner to Production and functional areas for lean activities. Ensures strategy deployment goals align with the annual lean transformation plan. Applies lean tools to drive continuous improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Innovation to support growth.

• Supports site lean initiatives; helps ensure that lean enterprise‑driven activities support and further the strategic objectives of the business.
• Recommends, develops, and implements lean principles that enhance the effectiveness of the facility.
• Prioritizes improvement opportunities based upon tactical planning objectives such as Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Innovation and Growth driven from value stream maps.
• Facilitates production balancing projects and visual scheduling tool deployment.
• Develops others on Lean principles and tools for implementing creative solutions for system and process improvements including:
  Standard work, continuous flow, material flow, Value Stream Mapping, ergonomics, Kanban, TPM, SMED, 5S, lead time, inventory control, JIT, cycle time, etc.
• Plans, schedules, and facilitates administrative and operations‑related Kaizen events, communication, and Kaizen completion.
• Assures open communications and involvement of employees who work in the lean process.
• Develops and maintains a follow‑up system on open items from all Kaizen events, ensuring they are completed or planned into a future event.
• Uses Lean techniques to perform process reviews; aids in establishing standardized work procedures.
• Implements performance metrics for lean processes to support overall business strategies and goals.
• Reports on scheduled Kaizen activities, number of events and results achieved; tracks and validates all savings attributed to lean initiatives.
• Assists the Lean Transformation Manager in building a bench strength of employees who can facilitate Kaizens.
• Implements and promotes flow in manufacturing and administrative processes to eliminate waste.
• Develops and participates in Lean Daily Management (LDM) meetings, develops countermeasures and assists with recovery plans when targets are missed.
• Supports new process and product development and implementation.
• Other duties assigned by management. Performs all duties per safety and environmental requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 3 to 5 years of related experience.
• Intermediate knowledge of lean fundamentals and production balancing desired.
• Up to 25% travel required.