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Responsibilities:- Develop, implement, and sustain the plant’s Continuous Improvement roadmap aligned with corporate VPS/Lean standards.
- Facilitate cultural transformation toward problem-solving, waste elimination, and operational excellence.
- Lead Kaizen events, improvement workshops, and targeted performance improvement initiatives.
- Define and track CI-related KPIs (OEE, scrap, productivity, delivery performance, safety indicators). KPI reviews, escalation processes, and action tracking, fully aligned with documented
- Identify deviations and ensure corrective and preventive actions are defined, executed, and verified.
- Map and analyze production processes to identify improvement opportunities (VSM, flow optimization, line balancing).
- Reduce cycle times, changeover times (SMED), inventory levels, and material flow inefficiencies.
- Support engineering and production teams in equipment, layout, and process modifications that enhance productivity and quality.
- Deploy tools such as 5S, standard work, visual management, root cause analysis, PDCA, problem-solving matrices, and mistake-proofing.
- Benchmark best practices internally and externally to accelerate lean maturity.
- Partner with Production, Quality, Maintenance, Logistics, and HSE to solve systemic problems and support strategic projects.
- Facilitate collaboration between departments, ensuring alignment on improvement priorities (as reflected in VPS and improvement responsibilities
- Train team leaders, supervisors, engineers, and operators in CI methodologies and problem-solving techniques.
- Develop internal CI champions to ensure knowledge transfer and long-term sustainability.
- Lead and manage CI projects, ensuring timelines, budgets, and expected savings/impact are met.
- Prepare progress reports, cost-benefit analyses, and project documentation for plant leadership.
- Collaborate with Industrial Engineering on new product/process launches to ensure full integration of Lean standards from Day 0.
- Align CI activities with APQP requirements when applicable.
Degree in Engineering, Lean manufacturing, Kaizen, VPS/operational excellence, cross-functional projects management.
The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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What We Do
Freudenberg is a global technology group that strengthens its customers and society long-term through forward-looking innovations. Together with its partners, customers and research institutions, the Freudenberg Group develops leading-edge technologies and excellent products and services for about 40 markets and for thousands of applications: seals, vibration control components, technical textiles, filters, specialty chemicals, medical products and the most modern cleaning products. Strength of innovation, strong customer orientation, diversity, and team spirit are the cornerstones of the Group. The 170-year-old company holds strong to its core values: a commitment to excellence, reliability and pro-active, responsible action. In 2022, the Freudenberg Group employed more than 51,000 people in some 60 countries worldwide and generated sales of more than €11.7 billion. Learn more about us and visit our digital home at freudenberg.com and read the stories that make us Freudenberg. Visit and follow us at www.freudenberg.com https://www.instagram.com/freudenberg.group/ www.youtube.com/FreudenbergGroup www.facebook.com/freudenberggroup *** Netiquette *** We look forward to receiving your comments and posts. On behalf of all users, we ask for constructive contributions, mutual respect, courtesy and tolerance. All contributions will be checked and we reserve the right to delete contributions. This applies in particular to unlawful content, incorrect statements, advertising for third parties, spam or slander. In addition, we reserve the right to remove comments that are otherwise inappropriate or incorrect. Contributions made by external users do not necessarily reflect Freudenberg’s opinion. Please find our data protect information here: https://www.freudenberg.com/fileadmin/downloads/english/2020-11_DataProtectionInformation_SocialMedia_EN.pdf
