Continues Improvement Engineer

Company Description

LACROIX is an international, family-owned industrial group that supports its customers in building and managing intelligent living ecosystems, thanks to connected equipment and technologies and through a vision: "Connected Technologies for a Smarter World".

LACROIX's three businesses - Electronics, City and Environment - employ 5,100 people worldwide and generate sales of €760 million.

Thanks to its expertise combining R&D and Production 4.0, LACROIX's Electronics activity is a major player in the industry and is ranked in the world's TOP 50 EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Services).

A specialist in electronic equipment and industrial IoT solutions, it brings to life the innovative electronic projects of its customers, who are among the world's leading players in the industrial, automotive, home automation and civil & defense avionics sectors.

By designing and manufacturing embedded systems and industrial connected objects in Europe, North America and North Africa, the business generated sales of €562 million.

LACROIX Electronics MI, LLC is the North American entity of the Electronics Activity and is one of the premier specialty provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) with a revenue over $200M in 2023. Locations are in Michigan, Texas, and Juarez Mexico.

Job Description

A Continuous Improvement Engineer analyzes a company's processes and makes suggestions on how to improve them, working with the Operations and Supply Chain teams in recognizing opportunities, making and implementing changes, and sustaining improvements.

Major Responsibilities:

• Execute activities for the development, implementation and monitoring of the Continuous Improvement System, which include:

• Design and implementation of supply chain systems.
• Implementation of The Lacroix Production systems
• Layout & Manufacturing Cells optimization
• Conduct Kaizen workshops
  • 7 Wastes elimination
  • 5S
  • SMED.
  • VSM (Value Stream Map).
  • Standard Work
  • …
• Implementation pull system.
• Visual Factory
• Manufacturing Cells
• Creation and development of improvement work teams
• Execution of training workshops on continuous improvement
• Follow the guidelines of the environmental management, safety and occupational health system
• Involvement in new program lauch

Qualifications

Required education/Experience/Skills

• Industrial Engineer or similar with experience in an automotive environment
• Knowledge in Lean Manufacturing.
• Knowledge in Ergonomics.
• Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving.
• Adaptability and Flexibility in Changing Environments. 
• Experience on logistic and material Flow workshop (Must)
• Good communication and coaching skills in Spanish,
• Pro-active and autonomous

Language: Bilingual (Spanish/English)