What are the responsibilities and job description for the Continuous Improvement Coordinator position at UFP Industries, Inc?
Join our operations team where you will be influential in shaping our business strategy and ensuring we have the most effective operations. Be your own boss by creating your own career path and pushing your professional limits.
Job Summary
The Continuous Improvement Coordinator is responsible for the implementation and coordination of the site's CI initiative.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
* Identify and facilitate process improvement projects, training/ workshops to drive cultural change. With management support, be a driving presence to lead, encourage, and motivate change.
* Conduct root cause analysis to determine metrics, troubleshoot manufacturing/ business and manufacturing issues, material flow & value stream, project plans, production capacity, and create process documentation
* Carrying out data collection and analysis for process mapping, develop budgets and cost analysis to determine improvement opportunities, as well as measuring impact of improvement efforts.
* Develop compliance audits, program evaluations and reviews to drive sustainability in our systems and identify further improvement.
* Assist development of job instructions to identify best practice manufacturing methods, use as training tools, and audit for consistent adherence.
* Develop process controls (control plans, audits, etc.) to drive robust internal and external quality consistency.
* Help manage the quality management system (ISO9001) to drive an effective quality system, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce quality related failure costs.
* Oversee the plant KPI's and strive continuous improvement from assisting the team with information to drive data driven decisions which will result in financial savings and support goals and targets.
* Develop, prioritize, and implement solutions to reduce waste and improve performance
Qualifications
* Previous experience in quality assurance.
* Familiarization or experience with ISO9001 quality management system.
* Training in Lean manufacturing principles.
* Good communication skills, both verbal & written, and problem-solving skills.
* Good time/task management organizational skills.
* Strong self-motivated. Takes self-initiative in reaching goals & objectives.
* Proven analysis and presentation skills including use of common tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Universal Forest Products and its subsidiaries and affiliates are equal opportunity employers. All qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
