Area Business Engineer/Performance Engineer

This role combines responsibilities of the Area Business Engineer (ABE) and Performance Engineer. The role of the ABE is to ensure production plans are optimized and scheduled to maximize profit and minimize losses for the Area Business Team (ABT). The ABE interfaces with Supply Chain and serves as a key interface between the plant and the business supply strategy. As Performance Engineer, this role will also use technical problem-solving skills to evaluate the performance of the ABT and to propose, develop and implement improvement solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical expert at the facility and provide coaching to others within the ABT.
• Ensure daily and weekly KPI’s are entered and any red/off target metric has a plan to close the gap.
• Ensure KPI’s align to business objectives and plant strategies; analyze, review, and update KPI’s based on ABT goals and lead the development of new KPI’s to drive desired performance.
• Ensure quality deviations are monitored and processed appropriately.
• Monitor and analyze the ABT reliability performance and encourage proactive identification of equipment issues.
• Ensure production losses are properly evaluated and categorized, and that true root causes are identified.
• Support the Team Specialist (TS) in the development of advanced troubleshooting guides.
• Define and communicate production plan for the Area Business Team that aligns with business priorities and plant activities.
• Own and update the production capacities for the ABT in alignment with Supply Chain planning processes and tools.
• Partner with Supply Chain in long-term production planning, and shipments of both raw material and products.
• Work closely with the Production Data Analysis (PDA) to improve inventory accuracy, raw material planning and cost optimization.
• Provide manufacturing input to Supply Chain to understand margin/conversion cost and adjust production plan to minimize losses and maximize profits.
• Ownership of plant costs and lead cost analysis to develop plant cost strategy /objectives / goals.
• Area Business Team focal point for Manage and Implement Supply Change (M&ISC) and Raw Material Trial Projects.
• Ensure Master Data is updated, provide manufacturing inputs, and manage reviews of this data per schedule with Supply Chain (BOM, Routing Rate, and Safety Stock).
• Communicate with supply chain providing manufacturing input for planning meetings.
• Evaluate performance of the plant against production plan and cost and contribute to improvement idea submissions.
• Facilitates the evaluation, prioritization, and execution of proposed improvement ideas.
• Owns the Area Resource Plan (ARP) for the ABT to track progress and prioritization of improvement project status and completion.
• Ensures the ABT’s ARP targets are reviewed, aligned and prioritized with the Business Resource Plan.
• Participate in ABT project execution as a Project Development Leader (PDL) or perform project related tasks as defined with the project manager.
• Lead Root Cause Investigations per trigger criteria to ensure preventative actions are implemented.
• Support the successful application of site policies, management system compliance and applicable EHS standards at the site and within the ABT. Be an influential leader in demonstrating strong commitment to safety and compliance.
  
  

Qualifications

• 4-year engineering degree
• 7 years’ manufacturing experience
• Strong leadership, coaching and communication skills
• Technical excellence
• High degree of ownership
• Desire to engage with operating team
• Ability to think strategically, remove barriers, and make decisions
• Commitment to Process Safety with demonstrated knowledge in Process Knowledge Management, Operating Procedures, Safe Work Practices, Operational Readiness, Conduct of Operations, and Incident Investigations
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Experience and knowledge with process control and automation systems.
• Solid understanding of costs, budgeting and overall financial acumen
• Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma foundational knowledge
• Experience and knowledge within Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma is preferred within this role. Green Belt certification (from Corteva or heritage companies) is preferred and progression to Black Belt is optional.