Description and Qualifications

Process or Technical Engineer

For Process or Chemical Engineer

•  Responsible for plant process improvements, trouble shooting and debottlenecking at continuous processing operations.

•  Experience in plant producing metals, minerals or chemicals with high temperature processing, pyro-processing, kiln or calciner operations including alumina, glass, refractory, ceramics, iron ore, soda ash, lime, kaolin, cement, waste incineration or other similar materials.

•  BS Chemical Engineering.

•  Experience working with Plant Operations, Maintenance and Engineering personnel.

•  Strong interest in moving into Plant Management in the future

For Lean Leader/Continuous Improvement/Six Sigma

•  Facilitate continuous improvement through use of all tools available (QCPC/Root Cause Analysis, Standardized work, Set-up Reduction, 5-S, Total Productive Maintenance, etc.).

•  Lead Kaizen Events and continuous improvement efforts.

•  Steer the facility to “think out of the box” and to remove paradigms.

•  Coordinate the lean training, lean development, and the lean activities of all associates (salaried and hourly), assigned to the office or facility.

•  Lead monthly Lean steering committee meetings with the plant or office manager.

•  Must have the ability to contribute to the culture shift in the office or facility to embrace Lean as the primary lean methodology.

•  Implement Lean workplan in the plant or office.

•  Ensure all Lean reports are being collected regularly in the facility, reported monthly to corporate Lean and that all targets are met, which includes the timely achievement of each Lean level.

•  Drive improvements to positively impact the achievement of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and Management Dashboards, relative to safety, quality, cost, productivity and on-time delivery.

•  Lean manufacturing/business process improvement experience is required (two to five years experience is preferred).

•  Six-sigma “black-belt” or “green-belt” certification is preferred.

•  Lean problem solving abilities.

•  Demonstrated abilities relative to the elimination of waste and process variability.

•  College or University degree required - Prefer engineering or science-related.