What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lean Manufacturing Engineer position at Apolis?
Job Details
Lean Manufacturing Engineer
6-12 Months.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Duties and Responsibilities:
Use Lean and other manufacturing/industrial engineering tools to realize the site s transformational (breakthrough) objectives.
This includes:
- Understand strategic context, current state and analysis of relevant systems to identify opportunities aligned with strategy
- Create (and enhance existing) models to give insights
- Build support and momentum for key initiatives
- Lead and coach teams to drive change
- 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.
- Champion change and demonstrate key skills, particularly in root-cause problem solving and continuous improvement.
- Integrate effective organizational change management into every improvement
- Research and test improvements to processes, ensuring safety, quality and compliance with regulation/standards.
- Play an integral role in the planning and execution of the 2025 and 2027 production capacity increases, ensuring scalability and sustainability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges related to capacity expansion and operational excellence.
Qualifications:
- Have a demonstrated passion for challenging the status quo and relentlessly trying to improve operations.
- Proficient in manufacturing system and statistical analysis.
- Strong negotiation, influence, consultation, and facilitation skills.
- Clearly demonstrated structured, logical, critical and analytical thinking.
- A natural people person, comfortable coaching, leading and guiding people
- Self-motivated and self-directed with a proven record of results.
- Demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills. Ability to lead and motivate teams to achieve business goals.
- Advanced digital and data skills including visualization tools (Excel, PowerBI, or QlikSense), analytical tools (Minitab, Python or RShiny) and exposure to cloud data systems.
- Experience in FDA regulated environment, Good Manufacturing Practices, ISO 9001 is a plus.
- Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
- Must have strong organizational and project management abilities along with knowledge of manufacturing processes and continuous improvement approaches.
- Must be able to train others and work with employees on all levels.
- Must be able to work extended hours and various shifts.
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