Continues Improvement Engineer

Continues Improvement Engineer

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us.

If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

• The Continuous Improvement Technician is responsible for identifying, analysing, implementing, and sustaining improvements across the production environment. The role supports improved safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and equipment reliability through OEE tracking, time and motion studies, waste elimination, data analysis, and structured monitoring of all continuous improvement projects.

• Drive improvement initiatives using Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S, TPM, visual management, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Identify production bottlenecks, process variation, waste, and non-value-added activities.
• Facilitate or support Kaizen events, improvement workshops, and shop-floor problem-solving sessions.
• Conduct root cause analysis for recurring operational losses and support corrective and preventive actions.
• Support the development, revision, and sustainability of standard operating procedures and standard work.
• Verify that completed improvements are embedded, audited, and sustained.

• Monitor and report Overall Equipment Effectiveness across production lines and equipment.
• Analyse availability, performance, and quality losses, including breakdowns, changeovers, minor stops, speed losses, defects, and rework.
• Maintain daily, weekly, and monthly OEE dashboards and loss summaries.
• Develop and track action plans to improve equipment utilisation, line performance, output, and reliability.
• Work with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, and Quality teams to eliminate recurring losses.
• Validate performance improvements and quantify operational benefits.

• Conduct time and motion studies for operators, equipment, changeovers, material movement, and production tasks.
• Measure cycle times, waiting time, travel, delays, and work content using consistent observation methods.
• Develop and maintain standard times and documented work measurement records.
• Identify opportunities for improved workflow, workstation layout, labour utilisation, ergonomics, and method standardisation.
• Support line balancing, capacity analysis, manpower planning, and productivity improvement.
• Communicate findings objectively and support implementation of approved improvements.

• Maintain a central register of all continuous improvement projects, including owners, objectives, milestones, status, risks, projected savings, and realised benefits.
• Track projects against agreed scope, timelines, actions, and performance targets.
• Coordinate routine project reviews and follow up overdue actions with responsible persons.
• Apply clear project governance and escalation where progress, resources, or benefits are at risk.
• Prepare concise project status reports for management review.
• Verify project closure, benefits realisation, handover, and sustainability controls.

• Collect, clean, validate, analyse, and interpret production and operational data.
• Monitor OEE, downtime, throughput, yield, scrap, rework, cycle time, labour efficiency, and cost savings.
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