Senior Industrial Engineer

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Type of work: On site

Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent

Full/Part Time: Full time

Location: Brits, ZA

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a "Bridgestone West" strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

You will be responsible to lead, and execute the continuous improvement strategy for the Bridgestone Brits Manufacturing Plant and to identify, design and improve productionprocesses with the purpose of increasing productivity, eliminating wastefulness, reducing costs, and ensuring quality standards are maintained . Actively engage in operational improvements and develop continuous improvement programs for implementation as to effectively support the goals and objectives of the Brits plant.

• Coach, counsel and train continuous improvement engineers, IE graduates and other support staff to apply, support, sustain and develop a Continuous Improvement culture.
• Deliver the continuous improvement strategy for Brits Plant, through the Continuous Improvement Engineers.
• Manage and control all IE related documents (e.g., SOPs, FSTDs etc) to ensure compliance to Management Procedures.
• Deliver monthly reporting (EU reporting, OEE reporting etc.)
• Design and execute focused improvement programmes to support the organisation's goals and objectives.
• Lead or conduct studies in cost, productivity, flow, value stream mapping and root cause analysis.
• Develop and expand capabilities in practical application of continuous improvement tools and methods, mentoring others in leadership of improvement projects.
• Responsible for targeting completion of process improvement projects for the IE Department within a specified time frame while achieving a cost reduction goal.
• Using Model of Standard, implement any new practices which delivers value to the operational process
• Conduct root cause analysis to determine metrics, troubleshoot manufacturing, business and assembly issues, material flow, project plans, production capacity, facility design and create process documentation.
• Analysing production processes, equipment, data, and related information.
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness analysis and optimization.
• Designing production processes that maximize efficiency and reduce waste.
• Optimizing process flow and First-In-First-Out systems
• Developing and implementing process improvements and technological upgrades.
• Designing control systems to minimize costs and production issues.
• Developing design and production standards and standard operating procedures in cooperation with management and user personnel.
• Designing the layout of facilities and determining personnel requirements.
• Training staff for new processes and providing instructions and manuals.
• Managing process documentation and preparing production reports

At Bridgestone, what really matter is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to "Serve Society with Superior Quality", for that, we offer you more than just a competitive payment; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long term well being.
• A diverse and inclusive team.

We are committed to create an even more inclusive culture that advances equity, embraces individuality, and helps our increasingly diverse teammates, customers, and communities thrive, by providing equal opportunities in employment. This means that all job applicants and members of staff will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, color, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.