Lean Manufacturing Engineer

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is seeking a senior Lean Deployment professional to lead and optimize large-scale, multi-step batch processes with a focus on value-added improvements.

You will analyze processes, model opportunities, and guide cross-site teams to sustain gains while ensuring safety, quality, and regulatory compliance. You will collaborate with global support teams, champion the lean operating system, and develop others through hands-on coaching and structured change management.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in science, engineering or related technical field, with 6+ years of experience.
• Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
• 5+ years' experience deploying and coaching lean in manufacturing/industrial engineering.

Responsibilities

• Understand strategic context and analyze systems to identify opportunities aligned with strategy.
• Create or enhance models to provide insights.
• Ensure outcomes are visible, measurable and sustained.
• Collaborate with global, regional and OpU groups to share best practices.
• Develop others through leading Lean implementations.
• Enhance pull systems and replace push with flow.

Skills

Lean deployment

Data analysis

Statistical analysis

Coaching & leadership

Project management

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in science or engineering

Job description

Job Description

About the role:

You will contribute in ensuring ongoing safety, product quality, and compliance, while optimizing complex processes across the entire value stream. Focusing on large-scale, automated, multi-step batch processes with manual operations, we are looking for knowledge in mathematical, physical, and social sciences, and engineering analysis and design principles. You will analyze processes, make opportunities for improvement visible, and guide next steps to accomplish those improvements. These efforts are critical to improving productivity across the site, and in the production environment. You will help interpret Takeda's standard 'lean operating system' and guide its application with a clear focus on adding value. You will also collaborate with other sites and global support teams to improve those operating system standards. You will report to the Associate Director of Lean Deployment.

How you will contribute:

• Understand strategic context, current state and analysis of relevant systems to identify opportunities aligned with strategy.
• Create (and enhance existing) models to give insights.
• Ensure outcomes are achieved, visible and sustained.
• Connect and collaborate with global, regional and OpU groups to bring good practices to the site and to share our good practices with others.
• Develop others through leading Lean implementations.
• Enhance existing pull systems and continue to replace push with flow and pull.
• Demonstrate important skills in root-cause and continuous improvement.
• Integrate organizational change management into every improvement.
• Research and test improvements to processes, ensuring safety, quality and compliance with regulation/standards.
• Play an important role in the planning the 2025 and 2027 production capacity increase, ensuring scalability and sustainability.
• Have a demonstrated experience with challenging the status quo and trying to improve operations.
• Proficient in manufacturing system and statistical analysis.
• Demonstrated structured, logical, critical and analytical thinking.
• Comfortable coaching, leading and guiding people.
• Must have organizational and project management abilities along with knowledge of manufacturing processes and continuous improvement approaches.
• Can train others and work with employees on all levels.
• Can work extended hours and multiple shifts.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Typically requires bachelors' degree in science, engineering or other related technical field with 6+ years of related experience.
• Six Sigma Green Belt.
• 5+ years' experience deploying and coaching lean as part of a manufacturing/industrial engineering role.
• Experience in the biotechnology / pharmaceutical industry is desirable.
• Experience in process industry an advantage.

Important Considerations

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. You may:

• In general your work will be a combination of sedentary work and walking around observing conditions in the facility.
• On Site Position.
• Must be able to lift, push, pull and carry up to 10 lbs.
• May work in a confined area.
• Some Clean Room and cool/hot storage conditions.
• May work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.
• Will need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
• May work in a cold, hot or wet environment.
• May work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and the best patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company to inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.

For Location:

USA - CA - Los Angeles

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$116,000.00 - $182,270.00

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

EEO Statement

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

Locations

USA - CA - Los Angeles

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes