Continuous Improvement Specialist

PRIMARY PURPOSE: 

AHF Products has an exciting career opportunity for a Continuous Improvement Specialist located at our plant in Cartersville, GA. In this role, you will provide technical services for the Cartersville Plant. These services include process improvement work, daily process support, cost reduction activities, and project management. This position plays a critical role in our Lean and continuous improvement activities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:

• Proactively providing quality technical assistance to the operation in terms of equipment. Providing preventative maintenance scheduling, production process improvements, system and facility maintenance procedures.
• Leading plant Quality and ISO teams in maintaining and improving plant quality
• Identifying and resolving common causes and special cause issues that impact line reliability and performance.
• Investigating manufacturing problems(root cause analysis) with the line and recommending corrective actions. This includes consulting with production and maintenance personnel, analyzing the supporting data, recommending corrective actions, and following through on recommendations to evaluate their effectiveness.
• Executing capital projects, ensuring cost, schedule, and performance goals are met or exceeded. This may vary from owning portions of a large project to sole ownership of a project.
• Educating operations personnel on process and technical procedures to ensure their knowledge and understanding.
• Coordinating training and start-up activities of new equipment and processes.
• Participating in Lean efforts, such as kaizen events, where an emphasis is placed on creativity before capital investment.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:

• Responds promptly to customer needs; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments. 
• Balances team and individual responsibilities; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives. 
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.   
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to a variety of situations. 
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.   

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Highschool diploma or GED equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferred or the equivalent of experience in a role(s)
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment in continuous improvement but not limited to
• Strong change management skills and experience
• Strong verbal, written, analytical, and presentation skills
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint
• Must be able to successfully complete and pass a background check, employment verification and drug screening
• Positive and Verifiable Work History
• Must follow safety guidelines and wear applicable safety equipment, e.g., safety glasses, side shields, approved safety shoes, and other PPE as needed

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud. This position is occasionally exposed to wet, warm, humid and cold temperatures. 

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

• The employee is frequently required to sit. 

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 

MENTAL DEMANDS

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Think analytically
• Make decisions
• Develop options and implement solutions
• Work with a team
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance (consistent with ADA and/or FMLA)
• Attention to detail
• Communicate effectively
• Multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Work with a Sense of Urgency

AHF Products provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

 This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.