Continuous Improvement Engineer
hace 5 días
San Francisco
Job DescriptionDescription: Why Join the Rangen Group? As a newly formed independent global company with a 100-year legacy, we are poised for significant growth and opportunity. You will play a role in shaping our future, strengthening customer trust, and unlocking unlimited growth potential. We are a safety-first organization, and we make our customers and employees priority. The formal job description is below but first let me ask you a few questions: • Are you looking to build your career with a rapidly growing pet, livestock & aquaculture nutrient manufacturer where your ideas and contributions can make a real impact from day one? We are a proud American Manufacturer., • Do you want endless growth opportunities, clear career pathways, and the chance to advance as the company continues to expand? We offer attractive market wages and top tier benefits!, • Are you excited by joining a business on a fast track to becoming an employer of choice, where innovation and ambition are encouraged?, • Would you value working in an environment where passion for quality products, and continuous improvement drive everything we do? Position Summary: The Continuous Improvement Engineer is responsible for driving operational excellence across Rangen Group’s feed production facilities by improving safety, quality, throughput, and manufacturing efficiency. This role partners with plant & senior leadership, operators, and cross-functional teams to identify waste, stabilize processes, and standardize best practices using data-driven problem solving and Lean methodologies. The role serves as a facilitator and coach—enabling teams to solve problems, sustain improvements, and strengthen Rangen’s culture of continuous improvement across livestock, pet, and aquaculture feed operations. Requirements: What You'll Do: • Spend significant time on the production floor engaging operators and identifying improvement opportunities at the source, • Participate in daily Gemba walks with plant leadership to assess SQDCP performance and drive immediate countermeasures, • Model Lean behaviors and drive cultural adoption through hands-on presence, enthusiasm, and coaching, • Lead and facilitate kaizen events focused on SMED, waste elimination, material flow, and equipment reliability, • Reinforce and support 5S, Standard Work, Problem Solving, Leader Standard Work, and Daily Management routines, • Conduct time studies, process mapping, and bottleneck analysis across feed manufacturing processes, • Drive improvements in throughput, labor utilization, equipment uptime and cost performance, • Support implementation and follow-up on daily SQDCP boards, • Identify top SQDCP gaps and convert them into structured CI projects using PDCA, A3s, and root cause analysis, • Integrate safety and feed quality into all improvement activities, • Support Quality Engineering, CAPA, and deviation investigations, • Analyze production data including downtime, scrap trends, production variance, and throughput performance, • Track CI actions, verify cost savings, and maintain accurate project documentation, • Facilitate CI workshops, process improvement events, and on-site operator training sessions, • Participate periodically in cross-plant kaizens and best practices sharing, • Serve as a local technical resource for feed manufacturing processes, • Document processes and support standardization efforts, • Travel to support multi-site improvement initiatives, • Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering or equivalent experience, • Lean and data-driven problem-solving experience, • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, • Comfort working on the production floor with operators and supervisors, • Willingness to travel up to 50–70%, • Comfort working on the production floor with operators and supervisors, • Feed manufacturing or industrial operations experience, • Lean certification preferred, • ERP/MES familiarity, • Servant-leader mindset and strong coaching ability, • Advanced analytical skills: ability to collect and analyze data and problem-solve, • Strong written and verbal communication skills, • Proficiency in Microsoft Suite Products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, etc.)