Continuous Improvement (CI) Engineer at Sanergy

Sanergy is an award-winning social venture that builds healthy, prosperous communities by making hygienic sanitation accessible and affordable in Africa’s urban informal settlements. Our systems-based approach to solving the sanitation crisis involves five key steps: we build a dense network of franchised micro-entrepreneurs, who operate low-cost, high-quality waterless sanitation facilities – called Fresh Life Toilets. We provide critical support services – such as access to finance, business analytics, training, and marketing. We collect the waste regularly and safely remove it from the community. We convert the waste into valuable end products, such as organic fertilizer, insect-based animal feed, and renewable energy. Finally, we sell the end products to Kenyan farms under the brand name Farm Star.

About the role

Sanergy is seeking to hire a Continuous Improvement (CI) Engineer to join the Operational Excellence team and take lead of Continuous Improvement projects.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop plans, schedules, and budgets for Continuous Improvement Projects


• Develop systems to increase the execution of tasks as per the Operational Maturity Matrix


• Use the Problem-solving toolkit or Lean Six Sigma or TPM Toolkit to find solutions to problems


• Implement corrective and preventive actions assigned to you


• Provide recommendations and lead projects on;
  
  
  
  • Improving cycle efficiencies
  
  
  •  Reducing costs of poor quality
  
  
  • Improving mechanization, automation, and energy sustainability
  
  
  • Improving maintenance
  
  
  
  


• Develop and implement structures for Continuous Improvement projects built around DMAIC


• Develop structures to measure and analyse plant effectiveness


• Develop structures to measure and analyse plant capacity and utilization


• Analyse and report on;
  
  
  
  • Adherence to timelines for continuous improvement projects
  
  
  • Adherence to timelines for short and medium-term corrective actions
  
  
  •  Process cycle efficiencies
  
  
  • Costs of poor quality
  
  
  
  


•    Losses due to lack of mechanization, automation, and energy sustainability


• Analyse and implement ICT tools to more efficiently implement and sustain the Factory Management Systems (Efficiencies, costs, utilization, etc)


• Developing and implementing systems to automate data collection


• Implement lean manufacturing to continually improve the production process


• Facilitate the deployment of new and changed processes to provide improved results


• Work closely with support teams to analyse the impact of all issues and propose preventive actions


• Host Kaizen workshops


• Facilitate the deployment of new and changed processes to provide improved results


• Lead collaboration with existing vendors


• Build relationships with new vendors. Work with the internal teams to ensure new vendors are added to the system


• Develop plans and schedules for the next 1 month for all Continuous Improvement projects


• Take initiative to understand why variances in work plans exist and propose as well as implement solutions to ensure things go back on track


• Develop quarterly goals for the role


• Convert ambiguous tasks into tangible and actionable steps with clear outcomes.


• Coach the teammates on continuous improvement methodologies through workshops


• Actively participate in problem-solving sessions unrelated to your work i.e. CAPA scrums and give input on innovative ideas to improve operations.


• Take lead and ownership with regard to improvement projects. Be ready to take and act on the feedback in a timely manner.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Engineering


• Advanced degree preferred


• Six Sigma certification is desirable


• 2-3 years experience working in a similar role

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