Operations Engineer

Description:

Key Responsibilities:

Critical contributions this role is counted on to deliver include:

• Developing standards and procedures to improve reliability of manufacturing process

• Execution of timelines concerning new equipment and product launches

• Key contributor in skills development and training of staff

• Leading root cause problem solving for Operational NCCAPAs (non-conformance corrective actions & preventive actions reports) and Customer complaints and identifying how to prevent reoccurrence.

• Supporting Operational Excellence initiatives including Total Productive Maintenance programs, i.e. Autonomous Maintenance, OEE.

• Leveraging your Technical Mastery of manufacturing to aide with successful new product launches, understanding processing times (routers), and implementing process improvements.

• Utilizing appropriate problem-solving techniques to determine root causes of manufacturing failures (Design of experiments, RCFA, FMEA, etc.) and initiates necessary corrective action to eliminate/reduce recurrence.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is recognized as a strong technical leader with hands-on experience within a Tablet manufacturing environment with knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). You will possess a "discover, learn and apply" mentality that can motivate others to succeed. You will also have a proven track record for implementing and sustaining operations systems, methods, skills, and behaviors.

Critical Success Factors:

You’ll be most successful in this role if you have:

• Knowledge of Tableting manufacturing processes and familiarity of equipment

• Driven reliability and work process improvements leveraging experience from the operations, technical/process knowledge in a sustainable way.

• Reduced Operational Non-conformance (NCRs)/Customer Complaints and associated loss (reject/destruction) while ensuring robust root cause problem-solving and the right corrective/preventative actions (CAPAs).

• Successful new product development (NPD) transfer.

• Demonstrated a continuous improvement mentality, searching for the next improvement opportunity using data, qualitative information, and direct observation of the process.

• Demonstrated behaviors that are effective in sustaining success using plan-do-check-act (PDCA) processes.

• Participated in or lead a change cross functionally in a manufacturing environment to align to a vision or industry best practices.

Required Skills & capabilities

To take on these challenges, you will need to have:

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing, operations engineering or process improvement within an industrial manufacturing or military environment

• Knowledge in data analysis techniques such as Statistical Process Control, Fault Tree, Fishbone, Six Sigma (DMAIC)

• Strong quantitative acumen with the ability to perform data analysis including the ability to perform trending and data collection

• High level of interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with business partners and working groups to meet mutual goals

• Requires a 4-year college or university degree in Engineering or Food Science or equivalent experience