LEAN Engineer Industrial Mechanical Production

Virtua Advanced Solutions; Dubai; On-site; AED 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Trans Skills in Dubai seeks an Industrial/Manufacturing Engineer to drive LEAN manufacturing initiatives, set up routing, BOMs, and cost analyses to reduce lead times and costs.

You will lead DMAIC projects, develop work instructions, perform cycle time studies, and coach plant teams in MUDA walks. A Bachelor’s in engineering and 4+ years of experience are required; Six Sigma, Minitab, Oracle/SAP, and AutoCAD are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Industrial/Mechanical/Production).
• Minimum 4+ years’ experience in industrial/manufacturing engineering in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Create BOMs, Routers, and costing analyses in Oracle.
• Lead manufacturing product development and create work instructions.
• Perform cycle time studies to meet takt time; conduct Kaizen events.
• Improve activities focusing on automation, mistake-proofing, safety, 5S and quality.

Skills

BOM, routing & costing

Lean manufacturing

Industrial processes

Administrative/PC skills

English communication

Time management

PM / Six Sigma (nice to have)

Education

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

Tools

Oracle/SAP

AutoCAD

Minitab

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.

Requirements: