Tenneco is one of the world’s leading designer, manufacturers and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with approximately 78.000 team members working at more than 300 sites worldwide. Through our four business groups, Motorparts, Ride Performance, Clean Air and Powertrain, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for diversified global markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport and the aftermarket.
This position will deliver continuous improvement training and activities throughout the plant while serving as a Subject Matter Expert on Continuous Improvement. Will lead and grow a culture of Continuous Improvement and its activities at the plant. Will facilitate projects aimed at generating Continuous Improvement techniques, cost reductions, and process performance improvements. Provides efficient leadership and cost-effective integration of Continuous Improvement, creating operational excellence.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Facilitates Continuous Improvement projects, cost reductions, and process performance improvements.
- Maintains CI implementation schedules for assigned projects, progress updates as required, and most importantly, provide documentation that demonstrates the direct link between CI implementation and process and Plant Operations improvements.
- Provides CI training and coaching at all levels of the Plant.
- Participates in and leads teams aimed at the resolution of quality issues and concerns.
- Supports production control, material control, material planning departments in improvement projects relating to scheduling inventory management and raw material flow and tracking.
- May support prototype and pilot runs to address design and process feasibility concerns from a departmental aspect.
- Interfaces with plant engineering on projects addressing staffing, manpower, time and capacity analysis.
- Generates, provides and participates in department specific training needs.
- Calculates cost reductions and/or various analysis to determine optimal problem-solving method.
- Teams with the Plant Controller to document savings and profit results of continuous improvement activities.
- Accountable for tracking all CI Projects and reporting progress to plant staff.
- Completes and or coordinates work sampling and or time studies to develop production standards for products.
- Assists in monitoring department equipment (OEE) and interface with Maintenance department to identify maintenance, repair and TPM.
- Works with process owner to develop value stream maps for each process and each value stream family within the facility.
- Utilizes the concepts of continuous improvement and cost reduction in the execution of the job function.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, finance, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
- Quality improvement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma
- Continuous Improvement certification preferred
- 3-5 years experience in Manufacturing Operations.
Soft Skills:
- Passion for Continuous Improvement
- Ability to communicate with all levels within the organization
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Predisposition to teach leaders a zero defect mentality
- Ability to weigh and manage priorities
- Skilled at synthesis and analysis
- Detail oriented
- Flexibility and diplomacy when dealing with staff and coworkers
- Ability to make decisions as well as influence decision-making
- Strong work habits focusing on safety, quality, and productivity
- Organizational skills
- Ability to multitask
- Ability to effectively communicate issues and ideas with peers and with management.
- Ability to build effective working relationships throughout the organization.
- Ability to facilitate meetings with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to operate independently within a tight deadline environment.
- Is a high energy self-starter with a resilient, can-do attitude.
- Project management
- Customer service
Hard Skills:
- Continuous Improvement
- 5S
- Lean Manufacturing
- Kaizen – Leading events
- Lean Six Sigma
- Root Cause Analysis
- Value Stream Mapping
- Proficiency in commonly used and specialized software
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Suite, including advanced skills with Excel
- Demonstrated ability to work in high paced and changing environments
- Experience in identifying areas of improvement.
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
