Lean Specialist

Zoppas Industries Heating Element Technologies boast an experience of over 50 years in design and production of heating elements and systems, even completed with thermal controls for domestic and industrial applications. Thanks to its business units’ high specialization in the different application areas from major to small domestic appliances and from comfort conditioning to the industrial market, Zoppas Industries Heating Element Technologies has solid competence and steady innovation in developing tubular heaters, cartridges and band heaters, etched foil, heating cables, stitched wire heating elements, finned aluminium heaters, functional assemblies, and electronic controls.

Requirements:
 2 years of experience in experience in a lean manufacturing environment, preferably in manufacturing domain (multinational company);
 degree in engineering field;
 good knowledge of SPC, SMED, design of experiments, KANBAN, and 6-Sigma implementation;
 experience in identifying areas of improvement, planning for and leading Kaizen events;
 experience in a high volume automotive manufacturing environment.
 planning and organization skills;
 ability to act decisively and solve problems;
 ability to communicate clearly and persuasively with the team;
 advanced spoken and written communication skills in English, Italian language is a plus.

Responsibilities / Accomplishments:
 coordinate the implementation of actions and projects through Continuous improvement to reach the objectives defined;
 Manufacturing and Material flow optimization, quality improvement with help of lean tools;
 LMT (lean maturity tracker) – follow up of Lean Implementation status and highlight area for improvement;
 cost reduction in order to achieve budget numbers - analyze segment KPI and provide lean improvement strategic plan;
 coordinate improvement plan and assign lean resources together with SLL, based on projects objectives and category;
 responsible of 5S +1 project implementation, train and coach auditors, split auditors by area, check status and take corrective actions base on action plan;
 increase productivity, quality and customer satisfaction with 5S project;
 increase 5S trend by daily sustainability;
 improving plant’s operations by applying Lean Six Sigma methodology (root-cause analysis, problem solving, SMED, 5S, Visual Management, TPM, VSM, process capability, etc);
 preparing and delivery LEAN workshops ;
 participates in functional area meetings and related functions to improving the plant’s performance goals;
 facilitates Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing actions aimed at generating Lean techniques, cost reductions, and process performance improvements.