LEAN Engineer (Industrial/ Mechanical/ Production)

Virtua Advanced Solution; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Trans Skills seeks an experienced Industrial/Manufacturing Engineer to lead Lean deployment across the plant, drive DMAIC projects, and accelerate product development from the manufacturing side. The role focuses on reducing tooling costs, increasing flexibility, achieving zero defects, and ensuring on-time delivery while improving material flow and setting cycle times.

Responsibilities include creating BOMs and routings in Oracle, leading Kaizen events, and utilizing Lean/Six Sigma tools to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial/mechanical/production engineering.
• Minimum 4+ years as Industrial/Manufacturing Engineer in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deploy LEAN Manufacturing best practices to reduce tooling costs and improve flow.
• Set up routing, BOMs, and product development from manufacturing side.
• Conduct cycle time studies and Kaizen events to meet takt time.
• Implement automation, mistake-proofing, 5S and quality improvements.
• Support maintenance activities and read drawings.
• Communicate Lean deployment results and establish Lean Roadmap with manager.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

DMAIC

Kaizen

5S

Six Sigma

MS Office

English communication

Minitab

Oracle/SAP

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Industrial/ Mechanical/ Production)

Tools

Oracle/SAP

Minitab

AutoCAD

Job description

Job description

Company Description

Trans Skills is an HRIS solutions business offering services from hiring to payroll processing and payments. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Dubai, we offer a comprehensive suite of products and services to help businesses source, onboard, ensure compliant global employment and payroll, and facilitate salary and statutory payments in over 140 countries. Trans Skills is also a global EOR provider with specialty recruitment and staffing solutions across the Middle East and Africa. We have a global network of 32 offices serving clients in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Job Description

This position is responsible for leading and deploying the best practices (LEAN Manufacturing) in the Plant by taking initiative to support the Plant on continuous improvement in various manufacturing processes by reducing the tooling costs, increasing flexibility, guaranteeing zero defect, timely delivery of products to our customers and improving the flow of material and setting up cycle times. Support and lead continuous improvements activities as defined by the Manufacturing Engineering Manager.

Responsible for setting up routing in the system for different products; leading the product development activities from manufacturing side and accelerating internal improvement projects focused on DMAIC approach.

1. Creation of Bill of Materials, Router, costing analysis in Oracle.
2. Leading the product development activities from manufacturing side and creating work instructions for the processes.
3. Perform cycle time study and improve activities to meet the takt time; conduct Kaizen events.
4. Improve activities – focused on automation, mistake proofing, safety, 5S and quality improvement.
5. Support maintenance related activities and should be able to understand drawings.
6. Make optimum utilization of LEAN Manufacturing and/or Six Sigma tools to assist in preparing the feasibility studies and ensure that the costs incurred are justified.

• Evaluate various improvements that need to be done and create value analysis and to look out for ways to reduce the costs in the engineering and manufacturing applications without compromising on the quality standards to ensure increased efficiency and quality and make recommendations. Benchmark of actual costs against standard costs and new reduced standard costs.
• Cost and lead time reduction activities
• Give directions to help in preparing the layouts and detailed drawings that will eventually assist in improving the manufacturing processes.
• Lean Project Reporting/Communication Report Lean Activity of the plant.
• Establish Lean Roadmap and Strategy together with the Manufacturing Engineering Manager for the Plant
• LEAN DEPLOYMENT PROCESS
• Communicate results of LEAN efforts in the Plant and inter plants.
• Training Train Plant Workforce (Blue and White Collar, Management) in the LEAN THINKING process.
• MUDA Walk Organize and coach regular MUDA walks ("waste") in all Departments and RPA (Rapid Plant Assessment) on a regular basis. Being ‘on call’ in some issues that may require out of hours response/working.
• Support Sales and Product Engineering with consultancy on cost efficient Manufacturing and Manufacturability of new and existing products.
• Comply with all processes and procedures (HR, Quality, HSE, Finance, IT, Procurement, Operations) which include compliance with all applicable rules and regulations of the local labor law.
• Employee shall comply with requirements listed in Company’s QHSE Management System.
• Any other task assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Industrial/ Mechanical/ Production)

EXPERIENCE: Minimum 4+ years’ experience as an Industrial/manufacturing Engineer in a manufacturing environment (preferably metal construction).

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:

• Creating Bill of Materials, Routing and costing analysis.
• Lean manufacturing principles
• Industrial processes: machining, assembly, forming, etc.
• Very strong administrative / PC skills (MS Office), Budgetary control, and procurement
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, any other language is an asset.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize work.
• Nice to have: Project management experience, knowledge of 6 Sigma, Minitab, Oracle/SAP, AutoCAD.