Continuous Improvement Engineer

PPG Aerospace is the world’s leading supplier of aircraft transparencies serving worldwide markets with the full range of product designs.

Manufacturing is a complex, job-shop environment in which simultaneous production is in progress on hundreds of product designs using a wide variety of complex technologies.

Products are produced in relatively low volume and have very high unit value.

New product introductions occur continuously.

PPG Aerospace has a phenomenal opportunity for a Continuous Improvement Engineer at our Huntsville, AL facility!

As a Continuous Improvement Engineer , you will lead projects to drive improvement in all areas of Safety, Quality, Manufacturing Performance, Capital Improvement, and Team Growth.

Key Responsibilities :

• Drive improvements or developments associated with the product and processes in a work cell.
• Responsible for improving the products, processes and technological capability work cell and is also jointly responsible for overall plant manufacturing performance.
• Facilitates Lean Enterprise & Sigma Logic projects.
• Supports the transformation in technical capability required within the aircraft products technical community.
• Will have priorities including reduction of setup time, lot size reduction, variation reduction and an overall improvement in process capability and consistency.
• Lead the effort to ensure that processing technology and capability is developing at the rate required to support the transformation to flow production.

Qualifications :

• The position requires a Bachelor of Science in an engineering or scientific field.
• 5 years of experience within engineering or an equivalent environment required.

  Experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.

• Experienced practitioner in the Lean Enterprise & Sigma Logic processes.

  Certifications in these areas is strongly preferred.

• Must have a solid understanding and knowledge of manufacturing systems and technology, product design or related experience commensurate with the complexity associated with the PPG Aerospace manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated technical leadership abilities.
• Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident.

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– everyday.

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More Information on PPG

PPG operates in the Other industry.

The company is located in Pittsburgh, PA, Allison Park, PA, Richmond, VA, Boston, MA, Cleveland, OH and Fort Myers, FL.

PPG was founded in 1883.

It has 24987 total employees.

It offers perks and benefits such as Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Disability Insurance, Dental Benefits, Vision Benefits, Health Insurance Benefits and Life Insurance.

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