What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Excellence Technician position at Flex?
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At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.
Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose -- to make great products that create value and improve people’s lives.
Job summary:
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Business Excellence Technician located in Columbia, SC.
Reporting to the Business Excellence Manager the Business Excellence Technician role is responsible for continuously driving a culture of excellence in the organization, coaching and enabling waste removal activities using lean and six sigma approaches and tools and guiding actions to a sustainable conclusion.
What a typical day looks like:
Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process. Please email accessibility@flex.com and we'll discuss your specific situation and next steps (NOTE: this email does not accept or consider resumes or applications. This is only for disability assistance. To be considered for a position at Flex, you must complete the application process first).
At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.
Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose -- to make great products that create value and improve people’s lives.
Job summary:
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Business Excellence Technician located in Columbia, SC.
Reporting to the Business Excellence Manager the Business Excellence Technician role is responsible for continuously driving a culture of excellence in the organization, coaching and enabling waste removal activities using lean and six sigma approaches and tools and guiding actions to a sustainable conclusion.
What a typical day looks like:
- Support lean and six sigma activities as defined in the GBE A3.
- Support in designing and building workstations, supermarket racks, benches, trolleys etc.
- Familiar with and able to use Moonshine tools and machines effectively.
- Ensure good 5S in the work area.
- Implement identified Best practices timely.
- Prepare and upload completed kaizen projects in the BE on-line Systems.
- Maintain and update various indicators on the lean gallery and other defined locations.
- Typically requires 2 years of experience in related field.
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
- Experience using the following tools may be required: Pipe cutters, drills, power tools, lean and six sigma tools, maintain catalogue of work stations, trolleys etc.
- Demonstrates advanced technical skills which may be used to conduct on-the-job training and/or lead/guide other employees.
- Determines quality/testing methods/ procedures on new assignments.
- Demonstrates knowledge of advanced technologies as well as functional techniques and improves processes.
Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process. Please email accessibility@flex.com and we'll discuss your specific situation and next steps (NOTE: this email does not accept or consider resumes or applications. This is only for disability assistance. To be considered for a position at Flex, you must complete the application process first).