Reference State Ownership and Process Control
- Serve as process owner for assigned manufacturing systems, with accountability for defining, documenting, and maintaining optimal machine and process reference states.
- Establish critical settings, operating windows, control limits, and monitoring strategies required for stable operation.
- Develop and implement proactive processes, standards, and checks to prevent drift, degradation, or uncontrolled variation.
- Ensure reference states are clearly communicated, understood, and practically usable by operations and maintenance teams.
Variation Reduction and Performance Improvement
- Continuously analyze process and equipment performance relative to reference conditions to identify leading indicators of instability.
- Apply Six Sigma, statistical process control, AI-enabled analytics, and other advanced tools to reduce variation and improve predictability.
- Lead structured root cause investigations using direct equipment observation, collaboration with operators and mechanics, and rigorous data analysis.
- Design, execute, and validate structured trials to confirm causal relationships and sustainable improvements.
Reliability, Uptime, and KPI Accountability
- Drive improvements in key manufacturing metrics, including but not limited to:
o Uptime
o Run Rate
o Waste
o Quality
- Translate technical findings into measurable business impact and clearly communicate results to plant leadership.
Informal Leadership and Cross-Functional Engagement
- Act as a technical leader who defines and promotes “what right looks like” for process stability and equipment care.
- Influence operations, maintenance, and controls teams through clarity, credibility, and data—not positional authority.
- Facilitate participation in improvement efforts by building shared understanding of standards, risks, and benefits.
- Collaborate closely with production, maintenance, engineering, and contractors to ensure safe, effective, and sustainable execution.
- Strong verbal and digital communication skills.
Project and Implementation Support
- Scope improvement and capital projects, develop budgets, perform cost-benefit analyses, and request funding as required.
- Specify instrumentation, controls, and data collection required to maintain reference states and detect early degradation.
- Support installation, startup, commissioning, and optimization of process changes to ensure gains are achieved and sustained.
- Participate in daily production meetings, weekly department meetings, monthly shift meetings, and required safety training.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, standards, trial records, and change histories to support long-term control and knowledge retention.
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