Manufacturing Operations Specialist

2 days ago


Vaughan, Ontario, Canada Can-Tech Services Full time

Company Overview: Can-Tech Services is a reputable HVAC manufacturing client in the Vaughan area, known for developing high-performance systems for various industries.

About Us: We strive to provide a comfortable climate and exceed our customers' expectations with our premium products.

Job Summary: As a Manufacturing Engineer at Can-Tech Services, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing process improvement initiatives to enhance operations, reduce costs, and increase overall effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Process Improvement: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate existing processes, identify pain points, and develop strategies for improvement.
  • Design and Implementation: Design and implement process improvement initiatives to enhance operations, reduce cost, and increase overall effectiveness.
  • Project Management: Lead and facilitate process improvement project portfolio, ensuring effective project management, adherence to timelines, and successful implementation.
  • Communication: Initiate and build effective relationships with colleagues in other departments, leveraging strong interpersonal and influencing skills to support and develop effective cross-departmental relations and work initiatives.
  • Change Management: People management to support and deliver on change management and adoption across the organization.
  • Process Evaluation: Support end-to-end process evaluation, look for improvement opportunities, plan and implement changes.
  • Document Development: Develop SOPs, WI, process flows, time studies and data mining to look at improvement opportunities within existing processes.
  • Management Systems: Supporting development of Management Systems (process controls, metric & reporting, training, etc.).
  • Process Modeling: Develop process models to better understand how upstream and downstream processes integration with operations.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate sessions to review integrated processes with key stakeholders, partners in the business and process owners.
  • Innovation: Proactively provide solutions by using imagine approaches where constructive thinking and innovation is required.
  • Value Stream Mapping: Develop value stream maps to identify wastes and areas of improvement.
  • Strategic Process Improvement: Support strategic process improvement opportunities and coordinate with key stakeholders.
  • Process Optimization: Improve current production part process capability and repeatability through the optimization of existing manufacturing processes.
  • Product Launch: Work closely with the Project Management Team to support new product launches, engineering changes implementation and product/process continuous improvement initiatives and related activities.
  • Quality Management: Completing all required APQP-related activities, ECR processes 8D, 5 why and all other quality management system requirements as needed.
  • Time Studies: Conduct time studies, identify capacity constraints and opportunities to improve efficiencies and reduce manufacturing costs.
  • Documentation Maintenance: Support in the development of Process Control Plans and Process Flow Charts. Development and maintaining documentation for PFMEA, Operator instructions, Rework, Change-over procedure and instruction, Manufacturing Engineering Open Issues, and Continuous Improvement Program.
  • Teamwork: Co-ordinate, lead and participate in various multi-disciplines teams in addressing and fulfilling various corporate objectives associated with manufacturing process, productivity, volume outputs, scrap/rework, quality, safety and delivery commitment.
  • New Business Initiatives: Providing quote direction for new business related to tooling, new materials and processes as required.
  • Part Design Review: Writing specification, competitively quoting, negotiating, managing program timelines and budgets, buy-off, and commissioning in our facility.
  • Fixture/Jig/Gauge Review: Reviewing part designs and providing feasibility input for ease of manufacturing and cost reduction. Reviewing fixture/jigs/gauges designs to ensure they are built to meet customer standards and requirements.
  • Facilities and Equipment Review: Reviewing facilities and equipment requirements with relevant inter and external customers/suppliers.

Requirements:

  • Specialized Knowledge: Specialized knowledge and know-how in Project Management. Conducts analysis experience.
  • Experience: 1+ years of experience in process optimization, operations, change management, transformational change or business management.
  • Facilitation Skills: Facilitation skills to lead large groups through complex processes and projects.
  • Organizational Skills: Excellent time management, organizational and a keen attention to detail are required.
  • Business Acumen: Strong business acumen and the ability to apply concepts and theories to improve functions with an understanding of the overall impact to the business.
  • Lean Six Sigma: Experience/knowledge of Lean Six Sigma DMAIC methodology and tools including, FMEA, root cause analysis, process design and modeling, process measurement analysis, process optimization.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills required, and ability to collaborate in a cross-functional environment.
  • Cost Reduction: Must have demonstrated a track record of initiating and implementing process cost reductions in the Lean Manufacturing environment.
  • Technical Skills: Strong computer and presentation skills (Microsoft, Viso, excel, PowerPoint).
  • Problem Solving: Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and work well under pressure, with changing deadlines and priorities.
  • Leadership: Prioritize tasks to take action; work with partial responsibility and minimal supervision.
  • Technical Knowledge: Strong technical knowledge, particularly in the areas of manufacturing and assembly preferred.
  • Electrical Engineering: Previous electrical engineering experience is an asset.

Education:

  • Degree/Diploma/Certificate: Degree, diploma, Certificate, etc. based training/education in Trade/Vocational, Secondary or Postsecondary institutions.
  • Professional Qualifications: P.Eng, MBA, CQE, CQM, CPP, etc.


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