Lean Manufacturing Engineer

3390 Baxalta U.S.•Los Angeles, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role contributes to ensuring ongoing safety, product quality, and compliance, while optimizing complex processes across the entire value stream. The focus is on large-scale, automated, multi-step batch processes with manual operations, requiring knowledge in mathematical, physical, and social sciences, and engineering analysis and design principles. The engineer will analyze processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and guide next steps to accomplish those improvements. These efforts are critical to improving productivity across the site and in the production environment. The role involves interpreting Takeda's standard 'lean operating system' and guiding its application with a clear focus on adding value. Collaboration with other sites and global support teams to improve operating system standards is also a key aspect. The position reports to the Associate Director of Lean Deployment.

Requirements

Typically requires bachelor's degree in science, engineering or other related technical field with 6+ years of related experience.
Six Sigma Green Belt.
5+ years' experience deploying and coaching lean as part of a manufacturing/industrial engineering role.
Proficient in manufacturing system and statistical analysis.
Demonstrated structured, logical, critical and analytical thinking.
Comfortable coaching, leading and guiding people.
Must have organizational and project management abilities along with knowledge of manufacturing processes and continuous improvement approaches.
Can train others and work with employees on all levels.
Can work extended hours and multiple shifts.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the biotechnology / pharmaceutical industry is desirable.
Experience in process industry an advantage.

Responsibilities

Understand strategic context, current state and analysis of relevant systems to identify opportunities aligned with strategy.
Create (and enhance existing) models to give insights.
Ensure outcomes are achieved, visible and sustained.
Connect and collaborate with global, regional and OpU groups to bring good practices to the site and to share our good practices with others.
Develop others through leading Lean implementations.
Enhance existing pull systems and continue to replace push with flow and pull.
Demonstrate important skills in root-cause and continuous improvement.
Integrate organizational change management into every improvement.
Research and test improvements to processes, ensuring safety, quality and compliance with regulation/standards.
Play an important role in the planning the 2025 and 2027 production capacity increase, ensuring scalability and sustainability.
Have a demonstrated experience with challenging the status quo and trying to improve operations.
Proficient in manufacturing system and statistical analysis.
Demonstrated structured, logical, critical and analytical thinking.
Comfortable coaching, leading and guiding people.
Must have organizational and project management abilities along with knowledge of manufacturing processes and continuous improvement approaches.
Can train others and work with employees on all levels.
Can work extended hours and multiple shifts.