Operations Sr. Specialist

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Operations

Reports to: Sr. Manager, Continuous Improvement 

Location: Holland, MI

LG Energy Solution Michigan Inc. (LGESMI) develops and manufactures large lithium ion polymer batteries and packs for electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications. Come join the leader in advanced EV batteries! www.lgenergymi.com

Summary:

This position will engage in diverse areas of ESMI Shop Floor continuous improvement activities to ensure all improvement initiatives are successfully implemented throughout the business in quantified measures, including but not limited to, performing Lean Manufacturing base Continuous Improvement Program/ECRS & 3R5S/LPA Audit in conjunction with digital platform. This role will create solutions to collaborate with Shop-Floor but also analyze display, and make actional decisions on gathered data. This role may participate in serving as an auditor as needed to sustain contamination-free facility.  

Responsibilities:

• Requires ability to maintain & communicate system work effectively 


• Requires ability to train new users on applications both on shop-floor and in office 


• Requires ability to be flexible with solutions and design for robust longevity 


• Requires active communication skills for new system launch, regular assignment reminder and outreach 


• Demonstrate passion and ability, to keep up with KPI’s through encouraging low participation teams to offer any assistance 


• Participate in daily shop floor patrol as needed and support weekly audit by existing metric that is compliant to HQ annual evaluation and ESMI’s First in Quality Initiative 


• May need to meet with customers or QA Planning to ensure external audit successful passes in compliant to customer requirements 


• Manage teams of various sizes and must be willing to model 3R5S and perfect cleanliness behavior to co-workers and organize company-wide clean-up activities for other teams (e.g. Innovation day) 


• Assign audit duties to PIC personnel on the shop floor 


• Participating in meetings with senior management including production directors and vendors when necessary by Sr. Manager’s direction 


• Perform other duties as assigned, including but not limited to, special system development projects and other responsibilities 


• Ability to provide on-call support as needed  


• Maintain cleanliness at work-site in accordance with 5S3R Standards:
  
  
  
  • Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain
  
  
  • Right Location, Right Quantity, Right Container
  
  


• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, communication, or relevant, equivalent experience preferred 

Experience:

• 7 years of experience in a battery manufacturing or fast-pace manufacturing environment


• Experience with designing and delivering training modules or workshops preferred

Skills:

• MS Office Suite 


• Tech-savvy and eager to learning & development 


• Detail oriented 


• People skills 


• Communication 


• Leadership 


• Management  


• Collaboration 


• Time management 


• Ability to travel domestically and/or internationally approximately 40% of time 


• Bi-lingual in English/Korean preferred