Industrial Engineering & Process Improvement Specialist

HELLA is a global, family-owned company listed on the stock exchange that employs some 38,000 members of staff at over 125 locations in some 35 countries. The HELLA Group develops and manufactures lighting and electronic components and systems for the automotive industry, and also has one of the largest trade organizations for automotive parts, accessories, diagnosis and services within Europe. In the Special Applications segment, HELLA also develops products for specialist vehicles. Complete vehicle modules, air-conditioning systems and vehicle electrical systems are produced in joint venture companies. With almost 7,000 people working in research and development, HELLA is one of the most important innovation drivers on the market. HELLA has achieved sales of around 6.6 billion Euros in fiscal year 2016/2017; in addition, the HELLA Group is one of the top 40 automotive parts suppliers in the world and one of the 100 largest German industrial companies.

 Technical education background;
 Excellent knowledge of time study and Lean Manufacturing is mandatory;
 Practical experience in the mentioned industrial engineering and lean manufacturing topics;
 Time management, work balancing and capacities determination knowledge;
 Experience in organizing and conducting improvement workshops / trainings (including training content design);
 Advanced English language skills;
 SAP experience in work center and routings management is an advantage;
 Previous experience in a management role is a plus (e.g. managing a team of Industrial and Lean Manufacturing Engineers);
 Initiative and proactive attitude, perseverent in obtaining results.

 Implementing Lean Manufacturing culture in order to increase continuously the proportion of added value by defining efficient and predictable development, purchasing, scheduling, manufacturing, shipping and accounting processes;
 Productivity improvement, using industrial engineering methods of work and system design under ergonomic, material flow and value-adding aspects and by means of support of the compensation types and work time models introduced in compliance with operational and pay scale agreements;
 Determination of industrial engineering data for planning and compensation - including time studies, setup time recording, multimoment records, comparisons and estimates or self-recording;
 Leading continuous improvement workshops : Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, SMED as well as supporting and tracking the implementation of resulting measures;
 Factory and line layout re/design in accordance with lean manufacturing principles: continuous material flow, U shape lines, short lead time, WIP determination;
 Hella Production System (HelPS) and Operational Excellence (OpEx) programm management, in collaboration with other Hella sites (Germany);