CI Engineer

at  Hunter Douglas

Hunter Douglas is the world’s leading manufacturer of window coverings and a major manufacturer of architectural products. We are a brand that you know and trust. With more than 100 years of innovation, we’ve defined our industry with proprietary products that deliver revolutionary style and functionality and can be found in millions of homes and commercial buildings globally.
We are searching for candidates that are driven, intelligent, creative, and entrepreneurial. By offering challenging and accelerated opportunities for growth, powered by a shared hunger for success, we create a space for your career to thrive. In return for your expertise, we are committed to providing competitive and robust total compensation and benefit packages to ensure you feel valued. Our dream is to become the fastest growing, most loved, window covering company in the world. What’s yours?
One of the pillars of our North American division is spread across four different sites in Mexico where a blend of manufacturing and fabrication occurs. At each location we pride ourselves on exemplary safety and employee-first standards, as we pioneer production processes to be best in class. It is our focus on quality and growth that makes us an employer of choice and helps us maintain our culture of excellence.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This role is responsible for facilitating a culture of continuous improvement and employee engagement. Research, plans, trains, executes and supports operational improvement programs in order to create a culture of continuous improvement and lean manufacturing that leads to associate empowerment, elimination of waste, and improvements in safety, quality, service and cost. Leverage the adherence to standard work and the execution of the Lean Management System. Leads Kaizen events per Program guidelines designed to forward and sustain continuous improvement initiatives. Identify opportunities for Kaizen events that provide quantifiable and sustainable results. Communicate metrics for measurement of continuous improvement; monitor and analyze quantitative and qualitative results related to initiatives on a continual basis.

• Promotes a safety culture and the implementation of safety policies and training in compliance with the company safety program and OSHA regulations to eliminate work related injuries.
• Lead Kaizen events and continuous improvement projects through cross-functional team facilitation and project management.
• Enforce adherence of standard work and ensures the integration with Lean Management System.
• Use lean manufacturing tools (e.g., Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, Charters, 5S, Gemba walks, LMS, Root cause problem solving) to identify and develop solutions that drive operational improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.
• Steering committee participation.
• Leverage programs designed to continually improve operations and eliminate waste fostering best practice and standardization.
• Mentoring associates in the use of Lean tools, ensuring transfer of knowledge, and creating a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collect and analyze the data on Plant processes, procedures and performance using evaluation tools and make recommendations on improvement opportunities.
• Track, monitor, and report regularly on project status; monitor product and process improvement milestones to ensure on-time completion and sustainability.
• All other duties as assigned.