Sr. SMT Lean Engineer

Sr. SMT Lean Engineer

Littelfuse is one of America's Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.

The Sr. SMT Lean Engineer acts with respect and integrity, maintains a constant customer focus, and works with agility to adapt to changes. They foster collaboration and teamwork, promote innovation, and stay motivated to achieve impactful results.

About Your Role:

• Apply lean principles to plant processes to identify and eliminate waste and improve site performance based on operational metrics, including but not limited to: People and Sustainability, Lead Time / Delivery / Flow (Growth), Quality / Capacity and Cost / Productivity
• Create a culture of continuous improvement throughout the organization through training and development of all associates.
• Organize, lead, and act as facilitator in kaizen events for continuous improvement in alignment with the management team.
• Implement, participate in, and follow up on improvement ideas with salary and hourly teams.
• Develop and collaborate on company layouts, implementing tools such as 6S, Kanban, line balancing, and restructuring the company to improve the work environment.
• Support production in problem-solving and system implementation.

About You:

• 5 years of experience.
• Management skills (ability to lead others).
• Six Sigma certified (at least Green Belt).
• English proficiency: 70%.
• Experience handling charts, histograms, Pareto diagrams, Gantt charts, etc.
• Ability to read blueprints (Geometric Tolerances) and layouts.
• Experience in project management.
• Knowledge of Lean tools (Kanban, Kaizen, 6S, Line Balancing, SMED, Flow).
• Plus: Six Sigma Green Belt.
• Technical knowledge of SMT.