Continuous Improvement (CI) Specialist
Ajinomoto
- Portland, OR
- $75,000-90,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Medical, Dental, Vision insurance on DAY ONE
- Company paid STD, LTD, and Life Insurance on DAY ONE
- 80 hours of vacation and 40 hours of sick time per fiscal year
- 401(k) Retirement Savings plan that includes company’s matching contributions up to 4.5%
- Wellness reimbursement towards gym membership and/or exercise equipment
- Referral bonuses totaling $1000 when an employee refers someone to work with our company
- Quarterly sales of product to employees
- Identify and coordinate operational improvement activities to achieve yearly cost saving goals.
- Troubleshoots major downtime problems and implements corrective actions.
- Oversee all aspects of continuous improvement for the plant organization.
- Evaluate the labor requirement through takt time studies for new product development and assist with costing
- Implements KPI’s and other measurements across the plant.
- Coaches teams in personal accountability, giving and receiving feedback, root cause analysis, problem solving, decision making, trade-off analysis, interpersonal communications and external interactions
- Successful team leadership across diverse groups to drive sustainable improvements to our systems and culture
- Lead capital equipment projects that increase production capacity and cost savings
- Trains and educates the plant members on methodologies of TPM and CI to include 5S, OEE, Lean, SPC, RCA, 5whys, Parate charts, Waterfall charts and other CI tools.
- Promotes, teaches, Supports STPD activity (Problem solving tool)
- Supports all NWT as Sponsor
- Manages, operates OEE system (Safety Chain).
- Bachelor’s degree required. At least four years manufacturing experience is a must.
- Any certification or experience in TPM, Lean, six sigma is preferred
- Experience upgrading or rolling out ERP system is required
- Have a strong working knowledge and understanding of manufacturing equipment
- Demonstrated ability analyzing plant cost and creating cost models
- Prior experience leading continuous improvement initiatives with knowledge of CI methodologies & tools
- Must have strong skill of Root Cause Analysis
- Require mid-level skill of Excel operation (Mainly data base function. PV Table, V-Lookup, Index, If count, etc)
- Must possess strong skills, knowledge and capability in lean manufacturing, finance and accounting, production, project management, leadership, and statistics/logical problem solving.