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Adler Pelzer Group is a worldwide leader in the design, engineering and manufacturing of acoustic and thermal components and systems for the automotive sector. With more than 13,000 employees and approximately 100 manufacturing and R&D facilities, we deliver to all major car brands globally.
The Mission Of Plant Operational Excellence Engineer Is To Support The Plant To Increase Its Profitability. For This He/she Needs To Focus On Continuous Improvement And Cost Reduction By

• Leading, coordinating and identifying improvements opportunities in the plant.
• Driving plant team to deploy improvements and build continuous improvement mind-set.
• Active support of Kaizen approach in the plant, by animating and performing improvement workshops.
• Being accountable for Labour Flex, Control Tower actions implementation and plant OEE results.
• Providing knowledge and coaching based on APPS/IMS 2.0 Group standards and orientations, linked to operational business targets.
• Supporting Regional Operational Excellence Manager/Director in the deployment of the regional strategy in the plant, by providing all necessary information
  

Core Tasks

• Leading and creation of plant Kaizen workshop plan.
• Active presence on production shop-floor by performing Kaizen activities.
• Working in multidisciplinary teams: monitoring and constantly optimizing Labour Flex, Control Towers and OOE plant results.
• Actively review and improving Cycle Time / Operator Work Content, by performing measurements and ensuring that the Standardized work documents are e updated accordantly.
• Ensuring that all plant improvement activities are tracked inside “Control Tower” and lead the team to maintain “Control Tower” up-to-date and timely reported,
• Moderating and supervising lay-out changes and making improvements in material and information flow.
• Coaching, motivating and supporting plant management team in APPS deployment (methodology, rules, tools), especially insuring that plant KPI are properly understood and calculated and improvement actions are connected with plant P&L results.
• Deployment, sharing and proper application of APPS / IMS 2.0 rules and standards by all plant personnel.
• Distribution of Company best practises and active contribution of sharing plant best practise with the Organization.
• Participation in regional and corporate workshops, projects and meetings
  

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Business or Engineering (formal education may be substituted by equivalent work experience)
• Experience within a production environment
• Knowledge of Lean tools: Kaizen, VSM, 5S, Visual Management, TPM, e.g. Knowledge of Six Sigma an advantage
• Good English language knowledge: written and spoken.

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