CI Engineer (VeLOcity)

As a Continuous Improvement Engineer, you will actively contribute to the further professionalization of our factory, the development of our employees, and the realization of structural savings.

You will work result-oriented on improvement projects that contribute to cost reduction, efficiency, and sustainability. You report to the Continuous Improvement Manager and are part of the Continuous Improvement team.

Responsibilities:

• Promote CI thinking: Identify opportunities to optimize CI within the plant, organize training and meetings, and stimulate employees and managers to apply CI methods.
• Implement TPM program (Velocity): Translate the company-wide program into the plant, define improvement opportunities including goals, effects, efforts, and priorities, and ensure a clear basis for decision-making.
• Support improvement projects with TPM: Assist improvement teams in developing and implementing CI projects, apply TPM principles, offer methods and techniques, and facilitate support among all stakeholders.
• Document standards: Concretize and document operational standards down to a detailed level (instructions, procedures, system settings) and ensure uniform alignment with disciplines within the organization.
• Optimize CI within the plant: Share best practices, connect initiatives with other plants and corporate CI, and develop supporting materials such as brochures, manuals, and training materials.
• Reporting and accountability: Prepare clear reports on progress and results of CI activities, internally and at the corporate level, and analyze deviations.
• Improve process and control structure: Specialize in setting up and maintaining a robust control structure to continuously anchor CI and TPM and sustainably secure results.

Requirements:

• At least HBO work and thinking level;
• 5+ years of experience in a production environment, preferably in the food industry;
• Knowledge of CI methods, methods, and applications;
• Practical knowledge of TPM is a prerequisite;
• Experience with organizing, facilitating, and stimulating continuous improvement within an organization and creating awareness among managers and employees to apply CI;
• Result-oriented, proactive, honest, integral, and a team player;
• Proactive and action-oriented and willing to take initiative.

What we offer:

• A growing organization that invests heavily in new technologies;
• Many opportunities for growth and further development;
• A good package of employment conditions with, in addition to your basic salary, e.g.: 8.33% holiday allowance, 4% end-of-year payment, pension premium paid by the employer, and 34 vacation days;
• We have bi-weekly product sales with significant discounts for our employees.