About this role
At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. Job Overview Drives the implementation of programs and projects to improve products and processes and develops deployment plans.
- Job Requirements Leading the project for specific sites, developing the value stream maps, executing the implementation plans for the particular sites, and aligning them to the overall business strategy.
- Monitoring the progress of the plans, leveraging the lean tools and methodologies to improve the processes, and evaluating the implementation plans.
- Training and educating team in lean, six sigma methodologies and associated tools to implement and sustain continuous improvement initiatives.
- Achieving consistency and standardization across the functions, coordinating the value stream initiatives, and facilitating the kaizen events in their respective sites.
What your background should look like Job Overview The Continuous Improvement Analyst II will drive a Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement culture across the plant by identifying, planning, implementing, and sustaining TEOA initiatives. This position will ensure that improvement projects deliver measurable operational and financial benefits by applying consistent methodologies to calculate, validate, document, and track savings.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and guide continuous improvement initiatives across the plant, promoting the effective application of Lean principles through TEOA tools and methodologies.
- Validate and calculate savings generated by continuous improvement projects.
- Ensure the appropriate methodology is used to calculate savings related to productivity, quality, scrap, inventory, safety, cost avoidance, and other applicable benefits.
- Track the realization, implementation, and sustainment of approved savings.
- Coordinate with Finance to validate project data, assumptions, and financial benefits and obtain the required approvals.
- Prepare weekly and monthly reports covering project progress, financial results, and continuous improvement portfolio performance.
- Identify and prioritize improvement opportunities with measurable economic impact for the plant.
- Maintain an updated database of tangible and intangible benefits.
- Administer the corporate system used to register and manage continuous improvement projects.
- Ensure projects are properly registered and supported by the required documentation.
- Monitor project timelines, milestones, and commitment dates, escalating risks and deviations as needed.
- Follow up with leaders, managers, and project champions to keep project information current and reinforce accountability.
- Generate performance metrics, reports, corporate dashboards, and updates regarding TEOA system status.
- Ensure the quality, accuracy, integrity, and consistency of data across systems and information sources.
- Provide functional system support and user training to promote proper use of continuous improvement platforms.
- Manage the Kaizen 3E program, including idea generation, evaluation, recognition, events, and results tracking.
- Maintain the plant’s continuous improvement pipeline and conduct monthly system reviews to verify that project savings are accurately updated and tracked.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Process, Quality Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of four years of experience in continuous improvement, manufacturing, engineering, or a related area.
- Intermediate English proficiency, approximately 60%.
- Experience with Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Knowledge of savings analysis, project tracking, Kaizen, TEOA, and performance dashboards.
- Strong analytical, coaching, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.