Technical Continuous Improvement Engineer

The Role

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Doncasters is a leading international manufacturer of specialist superalloys and high precision alloy components made for the most demanding conditions with manufacturing facilities in Europe, USA Mexico, China, and India.

Our site Superalloys of Long beach, based in California specialises in the production of high-performance vacuum refined superalloys serving the aerospace, Industrial Gas Turbine, and automotive market.

Long beach employees around 110 employees and is always growing! Long Beach is situated in the sunny California, close to the beautiful beaches and national parks in LA!

As a key member of the manufacturing operations team,The Technical CI Engineer is responsible for leading and working with operations to deliver product yield improvement across all manufacturing processes.

This includes taking control of data collection, analysis of data and creating projects based on results to improve site performance.

Additionally, the CI engineer will contribute to other departments by helping to simplify and / or streamline various processes and procedures to create a lean environment.

• Create and design trials for the continuous improvement of plant yield.
• Implement new procedures and tools to improve yield based on trial results.
• Develop and maintain KPIs related to the manufacturing yields of superalloys.
• Lead root cause analysis and deploy countermeasures using DMAIC methodology.
• Support quality in corrective action investigations.
• Advocate standard work and change management.
• Produce clear SOP / WI to support change, new projects and corrective actions.
• Create, manage, and control technical drawings.
• Support maintenance team in design, preflight deployment, and best practices.
• Support purchasing in defining critical quality.
• Support site safety and advocate for safe working environments.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize concurrent long-term projects while supporting unpredictable, short-term countermeasure projects.
• Flexible work capacity to run investigations / trials on production schedules that run 24 / 7 work weeks.
• Relentless root cause analysis skills.

Salary range : $90,000 to $115,000

Equal opportunities :

Doncasters is committed to achieving workforce diversity and we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive working environment.

We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, national origin, race, age, gender, disability- physical or hidden, sexual orientation, veteran status, or religious belief.

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