Continuous Improvement Engineer
Market Drayton, England, United Kingdom
Responsible for identifying opportunities for improvement and leading Focused Improvement projects by using various Continuous Improvement methods and techniques to eliminate defects and waste such as DMAIC, 8D/ Practical problem solving and process improvement in order to establish the root cause and implement strong countermeasures for sustainability. Currently working on increasing OEE % (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and driving down material waste on the Yogurt filling lines within production 2I have designed, project managed and implemented the sites first interactive OEE / Downtime Entry system alongside a full suite of reports prepared in Power BI to tackle the 6 big manufacturing losses and translated the company's strategy into metrics that helps the operations and engineering teams to understand where the top losses are and where resource deployment is most effective to make improvement, this also helps them understand how it links back to the site deliverablesI have delivered training sessions and coached teams in OEE, RCA, DMAIC / Process Improvement and created the improvement approach hierarchy.I have developed individuals in lean six sigma tools and techniques including data analysis for project selection, project charters, bottleneck analysis, fault tree analysis, root cause, SMED, process capability, statistical process control and control plans with the vision of creating a continuous improvement culture across site where everyone feels as though they can make a difference- Presented at CEO and COO level