Lean & Automation Engineer – Pharmaceutical OSD

KellyOCG

Florida

On-site

USD 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

30 hours ago

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Job summary

KellyOCG is seeking a hands-on Lean and Automation Engineer to improve manufacturing performance in a regulated Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) environment. You will personally assess processes, develop solutions, implement projects, train teams, and sustain results.

You will conduct time studies, build data-driven proposals, lead projects from analysis through implementation, and develop digital tools such as Power BI dashboards and Power Automate workflows while ensuring GMP, data integrity, and

Qualifications

Master’s degree in industrial, manufacturing, or mechanical engineering.
2–3 years in pharmaceutical industry with at least 2 years supporting OSD or tableting/compression operations.
Experience delivering waste-reduction or automation projects as the primary executor.
Hands-on knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, SMED, OEE improvement, statistical analysis, root-cause analysis, and process analysis.
Ability to identify improvement opportunities, develop business cases, quantify benefits, and create practical workflows, dashboards, or data tools.
Strong project ownership and the ability to work across Operations, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and IT/OT.

Responsibilities

Conduct process and time studies, waste assessments, and bottleneck analyses to identify improvement and automation opportunities.
Build evidence-based proposals that outline the baseline, expected operational and financial benefits, implementation needs, costs, risks, timing, and sustainment plan.
Present opportunities to site leadership for prioritization and approval.
Lead approved projects from analysis and solution development through training, implementation, benefit realization, and sustainment.
Develop practical digital and analytics tools, such as Power BI dashboards, Power Automate workflows, and electronic data collection.
Improve OEE, cleaning and changeover times, labor productivity, throughput, and capacity across manufacturing and other site operations.
Partner with Finance to validate benefits and maintain consistent project-value reporting.
Establish process ownership, standard work, training, controls, documentation, and performance tracking.
Ensure work meets GMP, data-integrity, safety, quality, change-control, and validation requirements.