Continuous Improvement Controller / Industrial Engineer

SUMMARY:
Well established manufacturing company situated in Germiston, JHB area seeking a Continuous Improvement Controller to improve and manage the production process and workflow.

POSITION INFO:

The goal is to eliminate wastefulness in the production process and make sure the systems make the best use of employees and machines to ensure inefficiency is being reduced.  All these have to be seen as continue improvement to ensure the final product meets the company’s International standards.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Implement LIFE (lean initiative for excellence) and Lean manufacturing program to improve operations competitiveness (cost, service quality) in order to improve the customers satisfaction
• Develop a continuous improvement culture to improve performance and employee empowerment as well as ensuring health and safety as well as quality standards.
• Develop mid and long term continuous improvement strategies, share and decline LIFE methodology and benchmarked best practices
• Lead end to end LIFE diagnosis be able to drive the relevant improvement actions
• Lead/coordinate lean initiative programs outside production
• Lead specific workshop in plants in order to create changes and improvements on the floor
• Participate LIFE steering committee, deliver the own improvement action and be able to address further improvement
• Organize periodic review with all concerned persons in order to follow up the progress
• Make sure results are properly consolidated in Balance Score Card, communicated and commented at all levels
• Support and co-propose the CAPEX plan around production improvement and/or obsolescence management in collaboration with engineers

Skills and requirements:

• Industrial Engineer / Business Analyst with Production experience
• 2-5 years relevant working experience (Production environment)
• Knowledge of 6-SIGMA would be a plus
• Goals and results oriented
• Excellent communicator
• Microsoft Office
• Willing to travel
• Skills and requirements 
• Highly creative and good problem-solver 
• Organizational skills o Proactive approach 
• Must be able to work with a wide variety of people
• Eye for detail and excellent critical-thinking skills.
• Needs to be able to analyze the data and make recommendations based on the data

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