Continuous Improvement Engineer

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Your tasks

· Recognition and detection of improvement potentials as well as coordination of actions to get the potentials utilized.
· Planning and organization of rebuilding actions in the plant together with the management
· Lead multi-level shopfloor management meetings and KPI reviews across multiple departments
· Drive management information systems meetings and data; alongside corresponding actions
· Manage yearly cost savings targets (RACE)
· Champion 5S plant-wide
· Analyzes production specifications and plant capacity data and performs mathematical calculations todetermine manufacturing processes, tools, and human resource requirements.
· Support IE escalation topics across all program shifts
· Support special assembly progress for launch, PPAP, Prototype, Run at Rate.
· Conduct ergonomic assessment and optimize equipment and/or process to brose standard.
· Use SAP based engineering change processes, managing BOM’s and Routing, and coordinate changes cross-functionally within the plant and support functions
· Optimize assembly process in support of ratio improvement target.
· Work within cross functional team and customer team to support daily activities. 
· Establish standard times for assembly process using MTM.
· Guarantee quality goals by using P-FMEA, Poka Yoke, statistical process control.
· Create and maintain work instructions, process documents, and all other necessary documentation for assembly processes.
· Other duties assigned by Manager/Supervisor

Your Profile

· 3 years’ experience in a similar role in the automotive industry
· Management of internal projects
· Facilitating of workshops and leading of teams with using creative problem-solving techniques
· MTM training
· Experience in KANBAN, SPC, TPM, KAIZEN, Poka Yoke, continuous improvement
· Experience in designing of assembly capable products (PROKON 2-Method)
· EDP knowledge (SAP R3, MS-Office, AutoSketch)

Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical and insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.

*Benefits package may vary slightly per location