Continuous Improvement Manufacturing Engineer

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As a business unit of IDEX Corporation, GAST Manufacturing has a long history of being the leader in design and manufacturing of quality air-moving products. We specialize in offering cost effective solutions for a wide variety of industries including industrial manufacturing, healthcare, and environmental cleanup applications. We are looking to add more talent to our team.

The Continuous Improvement (CI) Manufacturing Engineer will proactively identify opportunities to eliminate waste, reduce variation, and improve productivity in manufacturing, while facilitating kaizen events with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of CI principles into product and process design. This position is ideal for a hands‑on problem solver who thrives in fast‑paced environments and is passionate about building sustainable systems that support innovation and growth.

Additionally, this role is responsible for leading the introduction of new products into manufacturing, ensuring seamless integration from design to production. This role bridges engineering, operations, and quality to deliver products that meet performance, cost, and schedule targets.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead and facilitate Kaizen events, problem solving, and other lean activities to drive measurable improvements.
• Develop and implement standard work, visual management systems, and 5S programs.
• Identify and implement improvements for new product lines to enhance quality, cost, and delivery through 3P Kaizen methodology.

Project Management

• Lead cross-functional teams through the NPD (New Product Development) process from design validation to product launch.

Manufacturing Readiness

• Develop and validate manufacturing processes, packaging and labeling, testing, work instructions, standard work and tooling for new products.

Design For Manufacturability (DFM)

• Collaborate with design engineering to ensure products are optimized for efficient assembly and quality.

Process Validation

• Conduct PFMEA, capability studies, and pilot builds to ensure robust production processes.

Training & Documentation

• Support training of production staff and ensure documentation is complete and standardized.

Metrics & Reporting

• Track NPI KPIs such as first-pass yield, ramp‑up time, and launch readiness.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) and trainer of CI tools (Mixed Model Lean, Six Sigma, SIOP, Sourcing, GDP, and KPIs).
• Works to grow revenue & profit by delivering strong operational performance (SQDC).
• Lead efforts to identify opportunities for automation and implementing automation projects.
• Utilize 80/20 methods, Lean Manufacturing, & Six Sigma tools drive focus on critical items that will yield the highest impact to the organization.
• Establish CI Roadmap that deploys actions to achieve strategic goals.
• Drives consistency and effective adoption of CI deployment in all areas.
• Implement problem solving principles to identify root cause and corrective actions.
• Will help develop and maintain operational excellence and Quality KPI’s and countermeasures.
• Hands on participant of the Continuous Improvement/Kaizen processes by leading Rapid Improvement Events (RIE’s).
• Support Goal Deployment Action Plans and improvement targets for the enterprise.
• Drive sustainable and consistent quality processes throughout Gast/JUN‑AIR with sound root cause analysis and countermeasures.
• Build trust and credibility by leading by example.
• Create regular communications with the value stream and vertical businesses (clear direction, regular updates on events/decisions, and accountability for achieving & sustaining RIE results).

Measures of Performance

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