Aliaxis is one of the world's leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems, valves and fittings. We are present all over the world in more than 40 countries and more than 14.000 people, with 100 production and distribution units. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy. In Italy we are present with more than 600 people and 4 production sites. With our main local brands FIP, REDI, ASTORE and ISEA we make products for the building, infrastructure, industry and agriculture sectors.
We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineer, who will be based in Aliaxis Casella (GE) and report to the CI manager of the site.
This figure will be in charge of developing manufacturing amp; supply chain excellence initiatives for the site, driving the pipeline of projects for continuous and process improvement, safety and operational excellence, in order to meet the plant excellence goals amp; strategy.
The Key Responsibilities can be summarized as follows:
- Ensure that Group organisational standards for management for Health and Safety, Quality, ISO14001, Corporate Policy, Customer Excellence and business values are adhered to during project delivery
- Responsible for executing manufacturing and supply chain excellence goals and execution plant wide to achieve performance, financial and staff development objectives.
- Deploy and participates in Gemba walks and coaching employees on 5S / standard work / visual management development/modification/adherence, M.D.I., continuous improvement, flow, and problem solving and other lean methods, techniques and processes.
- Participates in the training and development of plant employees in excellence program
- Support planning, execution and sustainment of Kaizen and Lean manufacturing related events with in value stream team(s).
- Track and report program progress and communicate with plant leadership.
- Prepare reports to be shared with plant leadership.
- Contribute to the development of Best Place to Work objective through effective people management and talent management (Talent Acquisition, Succession Planning, Performance Management, Development, Performance Calibration etc) for direct and indirect employees in collaboration with relevant functional stakeholders.
Requirements
- Degree in the Engineering field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- A solid understanding of Engineering, Project Management, Lean Principles, Six Sigma, Financial acumen.
- Ability to manage autonomously the various main activities and projects.
- Must be able to manage cross functionally with direct and indirect influence
- Must be able to Coach and facilitate individually and at the team level
- Effective at engaging and leading stakeholders across levels and businesses in order to realize operational excellence goals and objectives
- Written and spoken English language