Continuous Improvement Specialist

Continuous Improvement Specialist

Company: RSA Engineered Products, LLC

Primary Location: 110 West Cochran Street, Unit A, Simi Valley, CA 93065 USA

Employment Type: Salaried | Full-Time

Function: Engineering

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Company:

RSA provides flight-critical components and assemblies for the commercial,
defense and business jet markets. RSA designs and produces custom-engineered
high pressure/high-temperature ducting assemblies for each customer's specific
performance requirements. RSA's Peri-SealTM is one of the most
sought-after connectors in the aerospace industry. Additionally, RSA designs
and produces flexible joints and hoses, ozone converters and many complex
assemblies to meet stringent customer needs.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Summary of job duties is to plan, organize, facilitate and direct continuous
improvement functions for various business Value Streams. Analyze, design
and/or improve manufacturing and/or office processes while working closely with
engineering.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Facilitates strategic initiatives that will aid in improvement or
implementation of new systems, processes, services or cost-effective solutions.
Conducts work on complex projects
requiring the origination, scope, validation and application of new and unique
approaches.
Lead and facilitate various Kaizen events (i.e. VSM, TPI, PSK,
SMED, SWfF, PCK, 3P, and FFV), and drive identification, implementation and
monitoring of improvements.
Lead, facilitate and coach continuous improvement teams to find root causes
and/or actionable items using lean manufacturing tools.
Develop and manage Site CI Roadmap to monitor and track success in terms of
stated goals.
Lead DM cadence to identify trends, and use 80/20 principles to lead
improvement initiatives to support customer and business requirements. Work
with each function to implement dashboards and KPI's to drive operational
excellence.
Partner with various business functions to implement 5S and Visual Factory
best-practices throughout the facility.
Other activities and projects as assigned.

The
pay scale for this position ranges from $100,000-$130,000 annually.

Qualifications

Minimum
Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in engineering or business

6 years working in a lean
manufacturing environment, preferably in the aerospace industry

Proficient in all Microsoft applications, understanding lean manufacturing
concepts and 5S, and previous participation in various Kaizen events.
Supervisory experience is preferred.

Essential Physical/ Mental Abilities Required:

Must be able to read, write and speak English, individual is required to sit
for long periods of time, occasionally required to walk, stoop, use hands to
finger (keyboard), talk and hear. The employee will occasionally lift
and/or move up to 15 pounds.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individual with disabilities to
perform the essential functions.