Title: Specialist II, Operations
Reports to: Manager, Innovation & Strategy
Location: Holland, MI
LG Energy Solution Michigan Inc. (LGESMI) develops and manufactures large lithium ion polymer batteries and packs for electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications. Come join the leader in advanced EV batteries! www.lgenergymi.com
Summary
This position will engage in diverse areas of ESMI Shop Floor Innovation Activities to ensure all continuous improvement initiatives are successfully implemented throughout the business in quantified measures, including but not limited to, performing Lean Manufacturing base Continuous Improvement Program/ECRS & 3R5S/LPA Audit in conjunction with digital platform. This role will create solutions to collaborate with Shop-Floor but also analyze display, and make actional decisions on gathered data. This role may participate in serving as an auditor as needed to sustain contamination-free facility.
Responsibilities:
Requires ability to maintain & communicate system work effectively
Train new users on applications both on shop-floor and in office
Requires ability to be flexible with solutions and design for robust longevity
Requires active communication skills for new system launch, regular assignment reminder and outreach
Demonstrate passion and ability, to keep up with KPI's through encouraging low participation teams to offer any assistance
Participate in daily shop floor patrol as needed and support weekly audit by existing metric that is compliant to HQ annual evaluation and ESMI's First in Quality Initiative
May need to meet with customers or QA Planning to ensure external audit successful passes in compliant to customer requirements
Manage teams of various sizes and must be willing to model 3R5S and perfect cleanliness behavior to co-workers and organize company-wide clean-up activities for other teams (e.g. Innovation day)
Assign audit duties to PIC personnel on the shop floor
Participating in meetings with senior management and vendors when necessary by manager's direction
Perform other duties as assigned, including but not limited to, special system development projects and other responsibilities
Ability to provide on-call support as needed
Maintain cleanliness at work-site in accordance with 5S3R Standards:
Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain
Right Location, Right Quantity, Right Container
Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering field or communication field or equivalent, relevant experience
Master's degree in Engineering field or communication field preferred
Experience
3 to 5+ years of related experience, or which at least 2+ years are specifically in a manufacturing environment
Expert at Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint, and Teams use, design, and application or the experience in building similar digital hubs and AI-powered resourced platform preferred
Ability and experience at designing and delivering training modules or workshop preferred
Skills
MS Office Suite
Tech-savvy and eager to learning & development
Detail oriented
People skills
Communication
Leadership
Management
Collaboration
Time management
Ability to travel domestically and/or internationally approximately 10% of time
Bi-lingual in English/Korean preferred
