At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow.
This position is with our Adhesive Technologies business unit – where we empower our people to transform industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings.
Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career and make an impact at Henkel.
What you´ll do
- Responsible for management of all engineering functions within a Value Stream at the Henkel Cleveland facility.
- Manages the engineering staff to deliver a safe working environment, processes that result in quality products that have been optimized for maximum efficiency and productivity (in this order).
- This individual is a key contributor to the site management team for building a site culture of teamwork, accountability, and communication.
- Building the pipeline of skilled engineers and management resources.
- Evaluates and allocates facility and company resources to accomplish facility and corporate objectives within established budgets.
- Owns the strategic plan for future site, utility, and production planning.
- Align facility’s organizational structure, resources, processes, and metrics to optimize the value streams and achieve business objectives. Establish processes to prioritize and align work to business objectives, process targets, and operations broad action plans
- Lead and coach the facilities technical staff to execute process optimization, problem solving, and troubleshooting to resolve and prioritized the facility’s most complexed problems and processes. Utilization of best practice engineering tools and methods: 6σ, Lean, continuous improvement, 8D, A3, and 5 why to drive business KPIs.
- Develops, analyzes, improves, and implements effective processes, plans, and procedures consistent with the service, cost, inventory, and safety goals. This includes optimization through process hazard analysis, job safety analysis, reducing waste, cost analysis, industrial engineering, implementing process measures, controls and optimization. Ensure processes are under statistical control and meet industry process capability standards.
- Lead efforts to design equipment and processes to continuously improve material flow, reduce inventory, shorten lead-times, and improve velocity of in spec. product through the plant.
- Generate and modify Bills of Material (BOMs), Routings, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Manufacturing Instructions (MIs), Packaging Instructions (PIs), process and product specifications and related documentation to support operations in the manufacture and shipment of Henkel products.
- Issues status reports including the tracking of KPIs of operations work and processes as frequently as in weekly operations review.
