Lean Manufacturing Engineer
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An early-career engineer who applies lean methods to improve manufacturing workflows under guidance from senior team members.
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What this role is
An early-career engineer who applies lean methods to improve manufacturing workflows under guidance from senior team members. At the Support Specialist (S2) level, the role owns a defined queue or customer set, standard issues within known procedures, and drives customer satisfaction for own queue. None.
What this level does
- Run a full set of Takt time, cycle time, changeover, and lot-size requirement analyses across a line and compile the results into the standard summary format
- Carry out recurring 5S and TPM audits across multiple work areas, comparing results to prior cycles and flagging drifting stations
- Set up and stock Kaizen-event materials, boards, and Kanban supplies, and record before/after measurements during the event
- Verify installed error-proofing devices function during shifts and log failures, recognizing when a reading warrants raising to the engineer
- Support line-balancing and throughput checks by gathering station-level data and reconciling it against the documented standard work
- Knowledge applied
- Broad knowledge of the lean toolkit's routine procedures — full Takt/cycle/changeover/lot-size analyses, recurring 5S and TPM audits — applied across multi-step assignments.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Semi-routine, multi-step work; recognizes when a reading or audit result deviates from standard and knows to raise it.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Routine interaction with operators, event teams, and engineers; receives instructions on new task types.
- Typical experience
- 1–2 years; some related shop-floor or lean-support experience.
Skills at this level
- Work Measurement & Time Studies
- — Measures Takt time, cycle time, changeover (SMED) duration, and lot-size requirements at the station using standardized observation methods, and compiles the data to support line balancing and Lean-line expansion.
- 5S & Visual Workplace Sustainment
- — Audits and maintains 5S workplace organization, visual-management boards, and floor markings against the documented standard, logging drift and restoring conditions on the shop floor.
- Kanban & Material Flow Upkeep
- — Maintains Kanban cards and signals, verifies pull-system replenishment quantities, and captures material-flow data used to keep line flow aligned to Lean layout standards.
- Error-Proofing (Poka-Yoke) Verification
- — Confirms mistake-proofing devices are present and functioning at each station, logs device failures, and identifies recurring-waste points where new error-proofing is warranted.
- TPM Audit Support
- — Performs Total Productive Maintenance audit walks, records equipment-condition and autonomous-maintenance findings against the checklist, and tracks status across audit cycles.
- Kaizen Event Logistics & Data Capture
- — Sets up workshops targeted at changeovers, 5S, Value Stream, and workplace organization by staging materials and boards, and records before/after measurements during the event.
- Value Stream Data Collection
- — Gathers station-level and process-flow data needed to build and update value stream maps, reconciling observations against existing standard work.
- Manufacturing Data Entry (ERP/MES)
- — Enters time-study, audit, and throughput measurements into the plant's ERP/MES spreadsheets and reports so engineering analysis works from accurate floor data.
- Shop-Floor Problem-Solving Support
- — Supports structured problem-solving on quality and productivity issues by tracing defects back through station data to isolate a probable cause for engineering confirmation.
- Internal Lean-System Standards (SPS)
- — Interprets and applies the plant's proprietary lean production-system standards, and at senior levels helps create new floor-level procedures where written standards do not yet cover a situation.
- Quality-Standards Compliance
- — Keeps data-collection and housekeeping activities aligned with ISO quality standards and safety/environmental requirements applicable to the work area.
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