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Lean Manufacturing Engineer
Company | Takeda |
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Location | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Salary | $111800 – $175670 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Typically requires bachelors’ degree in science, engineering or other related technical field with 6+ years of related experience
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- 5+ years’ experience deploying and coaching lean as part of a manufacturing/industrial engineering role
Responsibilities
- Understand strategic context, current state and analysis of relevant systems to identify opportunities aligned with strategy
- Create (and enhance existing) models to give insights
- Ensure outcomes are achieved, visible and sustained
- Connect and collaborate with global, regional and OpU groups to bring good practices to the site and to share our good practices with others
- Develop others through leading Lean implementations
- Enhance existing pull systems and continue to replace push with flow and pull
- Demonstrate important skills in root-cause and continuous improvement
- Integrate organizational change management into every improvement
- Research and test improvements to processes, ensuring safety, quality and compliance with regulation/standards
- Play an important role in the planning the 2025 and 2027 production capacity increase, ensuring scalability and sustainability
- Have a demonstrated experience with challenging the status quo and trying to improve operations
- Proficient in manufacturing system and statistical analysis
- Demonstrated structured, logical, critical and analytical thinking
- Comfortable coaching, leading and guiding people
- Must have organizational and project management abilities along with knowledge of manufacturing processes and continuous improvement approaches
- Can train others and work with employees on all levels
- Can work extended hours and multiple shifts
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the biotechnology / pharmaceutical industry is desirable
- Experience in process industry an advantage