Continuous Improvement Specialist

**JOB TITLE: Continuous Improvement Specialist**

**Location: Mississauga**

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**Why you should come work with the Romet Team**:

- **We offer market competitive salaries**:

- **Annual bonus plan**:

- **100% company paid benefits**:

- **Group pension plan**:

- **Training opportunities**:

- **Social events, a great team and more**

ROMET Limited was founded in 1972. Today, Romet is an international market leader that provides end-to-end measurement solutions to natural gas utilities across the globe by providing best-in-class technologies to meet our customers' needs now and 20 years from now. Our technological platforms are designed to seamlessly provide customer-centric measurement solutions. Our mission is centered on customer satisfaction through responsive deliveries, technical support and customer service that is matched with rugged and reliable products, manufactured with uncompromising quality, accuracy, and safety requirements. We will continue developing innovative technologies within the natural gas industry, promoting efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective energy solutions.

Romet is a collaborative organization where talent is combined with experience to drive our business toward success. This is made possible by the work ethic, creativity and passion of our team members and their continued commitment to delivering customer satisfaction. Our team is truly diverse with different areas of expertise and backgrounds, all guided by a team of experienced and innovative leaders. Romet has been recognized as a Platinum winner for Best Managed Companies in Canada for seven consecutive years.

For the right person this is an exciting opportunity to be developed and invested in to fill an important role within the operations team. We are looking for a highly motivated, focused, and outgoing person who wants to springboard their career with a thriving manufacturing company. You will be provided with the coaching and training needed throughout the onboarding and orientation process that will build from your base of skills acquired from your past experiences.

You will learn our business during your training with our experts in Customer Experience and Operations.

If you are excited at the prospect of joining an award-winning, high growth, technically relevant organization this may be the opportunity you.

**GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY**:
Reporting directly to the Production Manager, the Continuous Improvement Specialist will analyze processes and implement changes where improvements will optimize the organizational performance. They will work with the Manufacturing Engineering and Operations departments and work on related projects as assigned.

**Key Job Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:

- Identifying opportunities for process improvement, waste removal, and cost reduction while identifying obstacles and ways to overcome them through continuous improvement.
- Planning, facilitating, and executing continuous improvement events using Lean Six Sigma tools including teaching, guiding, and coaching cross-functional teams on Lean Six Sigma tools and methodology.
- Working to continuously improve processes both on the production floor as well as transactional by collaborating with multiple functions and departments.
- Resolving technical problems such as formulation, equipment, product, interpretation of regulations, and resource availability
- Involved in planning, scheduling, and implementing continuous improvement activities including Kaizen, 5S, SIM (Short Interval Management), TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) on the production floor within the manufacturing facility.
- Working hands-on with production teams to better understand processes, with an empathetic approach and ensure that implemented Lean principles are being understood.
- Evaluating and prioritizing potential improvements based on gains, required effort and ROI.
- Establishing a clear and well-articulated implementation plan including establishing criteria for the project’s success and preparing a summary of constraints/limiting factors/impact/feasibility
- Appropriately implementing principles of governance
- Regularly monitoring (through Gemba and Data) the implementation of solutions to achieve objectives and expected benefits.
- Reading and analyzing data on current processes, and using math skills to compute rates, ratios, percentages, and bar graphs.
- Interpreting documents such as safety rules, operating, maintenance and procedure instructions.
- Leading Kaizen events, providing employees in a Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) role with information regarding scheduled Kaizen events/results, lean manufacturing training, etc.
- Encouraging continuous improvement and technology to work together to eliminate complexity and identify better ways of working through innovation (i.e. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply-Chain Management (SCM), New Product Development (NPD), Customer