POSITION SUMMARY - The incumbent recognizes and identifies key processes/areas that provide a potential opportunity for BorgWarner Ithaca through improvement based on his/her review and analysis of measurables, matrices, and production data. As a result, the individual develops systems and projects for continuous improvement and positive change. The position guides, leads, and coaches' teams working on these continuous improvement projects to drive and track the efforts to successful completion.Launch related responsibilities:The Continuous Improvement Specialists reports to the Manager of Manufacturing Engineering. + Tracks the development of all project progress and inform appropriate management of developments and possible schedule problems. This requires maintaining an issue log to assure resolutions are achieved. + Utilize strong organizational skills to to track and manage multiple engineering and manufacturing change requests and implementations. + Keeps team informed of associated changes, timing schedules and milestones, and customer requirements. This involves coordinating and reviewing the development of documentation of customer requirements from appropriate personnel. + The incumbent utilizes a strong engineering background to design process improvements that comprehend customer needs/requirements and reduce systemic manufacturing quality defects. This involves interfacing with customers, auditors, and all BorgWarner employees about existing and potential projects and systems. + Updates Change Request and Change Implementation logs to ensure they are concluded + Keeps teams on track regarding timing and customer requirements. + Performs Advanced Quality Planning with suppliers, which entails tracking progress and ensuring timelines and customer requirements are met. This may include identifying supplier obstacles needing adjustment + The incumbent improves process capabilities, reduces inventory, lead times, and costs of current systems, and develops a cultural change that promotes efficiency and continuous improvement. + The person accomplishes this through statistical analysis and review of production data, measurables, and matrices. (S)He performs root cause analysis to distinguish how process enhancements can be created and implemented. + Drives and tracks improvement projects to successful completion. + Recognizes potential opportunities for improvement through statistical analysis and review of production data, measurables, and matrices + Creates and develops a cultural change in the company that promotes a commitment to fundamental and controlled quality improvement Continuous Improvement related responsibilities:Successful candidates identify and manage projects for both continuous improvement and cost reduction taking on the lead role in implementation. They drive and track continuous improvement/cost reduction projects to successful completion.Safety and Health – Responsible for completing required safety training, reporting and correcting any unsafe practices as appropriate, completing work activities in a safe manner, and complying with safety and health requirements for respective position. JOB REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (Minimum Qualifications) + A BS and/or a functional knowledge of basic engineering techniques, processes, and concepts preferred + Two to five years experience in a manufacturing environment + Work experience in quality standard and requirements Key Competencies + Business Acumen-Knows how businesses work; knowledge able in current and possible future policies, practices, trends and information affecting his/her business and organization; knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace. + Creativity Skilled- Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notion; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings. + Customer Focus-Is educated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains + Decision Quality-Makes good decisions (without considering how much time it takes) based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgment; most of his/her solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought out by others for advice and solutions. + Functional/Technical Skills-Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment. + Informing-Provides the information people need to know to do their jobs and to feel good about being a member of the team unit, and/or the organization; provides individuals information so that they can make accurate decisions; is timely with information. + Learning on the Fly Skilled-Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything. + Listening Skilled- Practices attentive and active listening; has the patience to hear people out; can accurately restate the options of others even when he/she disagrees + Priority Setting-Spends his/her time and the time of others on what is important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus. + Problem Solving-Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and does not stop at the first answers. 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