Sr. Continuous Improvement Engineer at ASC Engineered Solutions – North Kingstown, Rhode Island

ASC Engineered Solutions
North Kingstown, Rhode Island

AREA OF INTEREST: Operational Excellence
POSITION TYPE: Full-time
Job Title: Sr. Continuous Improvement Engineer
About the Company

Following the 2019 merger of Anvil International and Smith-Cooper International, our unified company relaunched in March 2021 as ASC Engineered Solutions. Under a single name and logo, ASC Engineered Solutions continues our focus on improving the customer experience every day and striving to deliver service excellence. For more than 150 years we have provided the finest-quality pipe products and services with integrity and dedication to superior customer service at all levels. ASC Engineered Solutions provides expertise and product solutions for a wide range of applications, from plumbing and mechanical, HVAC, industrial and fire protection to mining, and oil and gas. Our comprehensive line of products includes: pipe couplings, plain-end fittings, valves, cast and malleable iron fittings, forged steel fittings, steel pipe nipples and couplings, pipe hangers and hardware, channel and strut fittings, mining and oil field fittings, and much more.

The Sr. Continuous Improvement (CI) Engineer will identify and drive operations and supply chain improvements in order to meet or exceed safety, quality, delivery, cost, and efficiency goals. The Sr. CI Engineer will train and implement lean principles by supporting our North Kingstown Rhode Island manufacturing site. This position will work closely with all levels of assigned locations to ensure that best practices and continuous improvement are a part of our culture.

How You Will Help:

• Collaborate with site teams to deploy a local lean strategy to achieve business objectives and financial targets.
• Implement lean and continuous improvement initiatives including value steam mapping processes, kaizen events, 5S, visual factory, and other lean tools and principles in alignment with the ASC Business System
• Engage with leadership at various facilities to set specific targets to functionally and strategically achieve improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Innovation metrics.
• Deploy lean daily management and drive adoption of standard work, deploy proven problem-solving methods at all levels
• Drive the kaizen event and continuous improvement funnel from identification of opportunities to full implementation of improvements.
• Support building strong location teams by mentoring and coaching, and providing formal and informal lean training at all levels
• Analyze site issues regarding costs, profits, margins, capacity utilization, yields, and supply chain sources effectively distilling information into actionable projects.
• Support technology innovation throughout the network
• Engage in the company wide network of CI practitioners to accelerate best practice sharing, process and tool development.

What You Will Have:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in Engineering or other technical field
• Minimum 5 years in manufacturing and/or distribution with 3 years in Lean/CI implementation focus, including experience leading/facilitating kaizen events and bringing transformational change to a medium or larger sized manufacturing site (distribution experience helpful)
• Subject matter expertise and practical lean deployment experience with tools like Kaizen, VSM, Problem Solving, Daily Management, TPM, 5S, Heijunka, Standard Work, Kanban, Continuous Flow, Poke Yoke, and others
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship both now and within the future

Preferred:

• Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement certifications
• Project Management and Quality Management experience

$90-115k base + bonus

Summary of Company Benefits Here

Location(s): North Kingstown, RI-110
Equal Employment Opportunity/M/F/disability/protected veteran status