Shop Floor Lean & Process Improvement Specialist

Ultipro; Evansville (WI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ultipro in Evansville, WI is seeking a Lean/Process Improvement professional to provide product and process knowledge to manufacturing staff on the shop floor, escalating issues to the Plant Manager and Manufacturing Liaison MIT. You will coach and train employees, participate in audits, and support EoL defect follow-up and First Unit Review activities.

The role emphasizes serving on cross-functional teams to deploy SOPs, apply LEAN tools, and drive waste reduction.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of relevant business or project management experience.
• Associates or Bachelor's degree desired but not required.
• Lean knowledge/experience to apply lean concepts and principles across an entire value stream- shop floor focused
• Good training and presentation skills.
• Consistent demonstration of ability to act independently, prioritize and influence others on a regular basis.
• Learn LEAN process improvements and apply– shopfloor focused
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Power Pint, Project, Visio, Outlook, and Access.
• Serve on a team
• Organized and data driven
• Passionate about continuous improvement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Empathy, assertiveness, accuracy, patience, professionalism, confidentiality
• Must be able to perform each essential function and responsibility of the job satisfactorily in accordance with company productivity and quality requirements.
• Core Competencies: Communication, Analyzing & Problem Solving, Adaptability

Responsibilities

• 80% Reside on Shop floor -> Perform Process/Quality Audit, Training, Data Collection/Capture improvements via ECR, and Process Sheets.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deploy standard operating procedures and process improvements.
• Utilize LEAN principles and tools to eliminate waste
• Actively participates in the analysis of production and process issues, recommends solutions to further business goals and works with the appropriate teams in the plant to implement those solutions.
• Participates in kaizen events and workshops to solve urgent business needs.
• Develops requirement documents and conducts systems testing, training, and related documentation, as necessary.
• Perform all assigned tasks in a safe, efficient, timely, and accurate and highly productive manner according to company policy.
• Attend scheduled work hours on a regular and timely basis. Maintain good attendance.
• Develop and maintain strong, positive business relationships with key internal clients, external customers and suppliers to clearly understand their business processes, and the development/articulation of short and long term business objectives.
• Define the business case for the projects that have been proposed and validate the opportunity, scope and importance of a project.
• Serve on cross departmental project teams to meet the project objectives within the given time frame, and within budget.
• The company may assign other duties.

Skills

Lean knowledge

Training skills

Data analysis

MS Office

Communication

Problem solving

Teamwork

Auditing

Change management

Education

Five+ years in business or project management

Associates or Bachelor's degree desired

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Project

Visio

Outlook

Access

Job description

Ultipro in Evansville, WI is seeking a Lean/Process Improvement professional to provide product and process knowledge to manufacturing staff on the shop floor, escalating issues to the Plant Manager and Manufacturing Liaison MIT. You will coach and train employees, participate in audits, and support EoL defect follow-up and First Unit Review activities.

The role emphasizes serving on cross-functional teams to deploy SOPs, apply LEAN tools, and drive waste reduction.