Continuous Improvement Engineer (m/f/d)

• Excellent benefits package and retirement savings plans as well as life insurance program
• Competitive vacation policy promoting work-life balance
• Challenging career opportunities and growth
• Opportunity to work, innovate and collaborate with passionate people who drive change
• Amazing team – we are the best in the world at what we do!

• Large, beautiful campus with clean, state-of-the-art air-conditioned offices and manufacturing facilities with high air quality, climate control and outstanding safety records
• Onsite fitness and wellness center
• Organized out- and indoor sports activities such as running teams, and bicycle teams
• Access to onsite medical practitioners
• Onsite cafeterias with fresh and healthy meal options
• Free parking

• Lead kaizen events (SMED, 5S, value stream mapping, line balancing, TPM, standard work) to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale (SQDCM) targets.
• Develop and maintain the site’s Lean roadmap and CI project hopper aligned to business priorities.
• Build and standardize visual management (SQDC boards, tier meetings).
• Analyze process flow, takt time, cycle time, OEE, and WIP using time studies, work sampling, and spaghetti diagrams; implement pull systems and kanban.
• Design or refine cell layouts using lean principles (U cells, point of use, material presentation). Implement solutions related to this in areas of responsibility/need.
• Support PFMEA, mistake proofing (Poka Yoke), and workload balance.
• Apply structured root cause analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone), and statistical tools to measurably reduce scrap, rework, and downtime.
• Build dashboards to track CI benefits (OEE, FPY, DPMO, on time delivery, conversion cost) and verify savings with Finance.
• Maintains records and formulates reports on CI progress, schedules and initiatives.
• Create/work with Standard Work, work instructions, job breakdown sheets, and change control.
• Train and coach operators, team leads, and engineers in Lean fundamentals and problem solving to embed daily CI behaviors.
• Support DFM/DFA, pilot builds, and ramp up planning; set line rates, staffing, and material flow for stable launch.
• Conduct capacity modeling and constraints analysis.
• Integrate EHS and ergonomic best practices into line designs and kaizen activities.
• Ensure processes meet internal and external requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Several years of working experience in high mix or high volume discrete manufacturing (or comparable process environment).
• Demonstrated delivery of Lean/CI projects with quantifiable results (cost, OEE, lead time, labor efficiency improvements, quality).
• Proficiency with time studies, line balancing, PFMEA.
• Strong analytical skills with Excel/Sheets and at least one data/BI or statistical tool (e.g., Power BI, Minitab, JMP).
• Excellent facilitation and change management skills, comfortable leading on the production floor.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Black Belt a plus).
• Experience with value stream transformation and pull systems/kanban design.
• Knowledge of ERP/MES (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Baan) and digital work instruction platforms.
• CAD capability for layout design
• Sector experience: automotive, medical device, aerospace, electronics, plastics.
• Excellent communication skills - ability to engage and motivate teammates to adopt changes and transformations.
• Fluent English.
• Additional language skills such as German and/or French considered an advantage.

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