Continuous Improvement Specialist

Oppr.ai; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Incentive plan

Unlimited vacation

Laptop provided

Office in The Hague

Ownership from day one

Job summary

Oppr.ai is hiring for a field-oriented improvement specialist based in The Hague, NL. You will work directly on production lines, collaborating with operators and engineers to identify and fix recurring problems, and to translate field insights into the product team's roadmap.

The role emphasizes hands-on problem solving, real-time data analysis, and a move-from-problem-to-standard-work approach. Travel to customer plants is expected as the company expands across Northwest Europe.

Qualifications

• Real-time on a production floor experience.
• Structured problem solving methods (Lean, DMAIC, TPM, 8D).
• Comfort with data from historians/ERP and familiarity with SCADA, MES or historians.

Responsibilities

• Walk the line with operators and engineers to identify persistent problems.
• Agree on one problem, owner and success criteria with the plant before work starts.
• Capture machine-level observations and explain their importance to operators.

Skills

Lean

DMAIC

TPM

8D

Dutch

German

Driving licence

SCADA

MES

Education

Degree in process, chemical, mechanical, industrial or automation engineering

Tools

SCADA

MES

Historians

Job description

Plants in Northwest Europe · Full-time · The Hague, Netherlands

The role

Most plants find the fix. Holding it is the hard part. The gain is real for a while, then the line drifts back.

You run the improvement cycle inside a customer's plant, on the floor, with the people who run the line. Oppr's platform is your tool: it puts what the shift sees next to the machine data, and helps every shift keep what works. This is an improvement role, not a software role. You will not write production code, but what you learn in the field shapes how the platform develops.

We are expanding fast across Northwest Europe, focused on process plants in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Expect regular travel to customer plants, with your base at our office in The Hague.

What you'll do

Walk the line with operators, shift leads and engineers. Find the problem that keeps coming back, and the one worth working on.

Agree one problem, one owner and the success criteria with the plant before the work starts.

Help the shift capture what they see at the machine, only where the problem needs it. Explain why it matters to them, and stay close until it becomes routine.

Read the shift notes next to the machine data on one timeline. Work with the hypotheses the analysis proposes, and add your own.

Help the plant's people test each hypothesis on the floor. They make the call. A disproved hypothesis is a valid outcome.

Put what holds into standard work, and set up the check every shift confirms.

Start the next problem on the same line, or the next line.

Bring what you see in the field back to our product team.

What you bring

Real time on a production floor, ideally in a process plant: chemicals, plastics and rubber, recycling, waste to energy, food and beverage, or similar. Your floor time matters more than your title.

You have run an improvement from problem to standard work yourself, and seen it hold.

Structured problem solving in practice: Lean, DMAIC, TPM, 8D, or the method your plant used.

Comfort with data. A messy export from a historian or ERP does not scare you, and you know SCADA, MES or historians well enough to ask the right questions.

Good to have

Dutch and/or German.

A degree in process, chemical, mechanical, industrial or automation engineering.

Experience as a CI or OpEx lead, or in a role across several plants.

A driving licence.

What Oppr offers

A competitive, market-based salary.

An incentive plan for the people who build Oppr with us.

Unlimited vacation.

A laptop and the tools you need, from day one.

A great office at Titaan, in a lively startup hub in The Hague.

A seat close to the floor, with a different plant and a different problem over time.

Ownership from your first week, and direct access to the founders.

Room to shape how we run the improvement cycle with customers.

About Oppr

Oppr is an operational improvement platform for continuous manufacturing. We are an improvement and digitization partner: we work on the improvement with the plant's people, and the software keeps what works in place.

Built on the floor, by people who ran plants. A small team in The Hague.

One problem that keeps coming back, and the people who can make the fix hold. If that is the work you want to do, we would like to hear from you.