CI Technician L4

Overview

Job code: 9820402

Job Family: Technician

SUMMARY:

CI Technician’s primary function is to support a designated CI engineer in executing any continuous improvement projects across all plants, distribution centers, departments and shifts. In this role you will use the principles and theories of science, engineering, and mathematics to solve technical problems in research and development, manufacturing, inspection, and maintenance.

Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identify, troubleshoot and track quality issues and inefficiencies in work processes providing solutions using available resources.
• Support manufacturing to achieve safety, productivity and quality targets through process design, optimization projects and Kaizen initiatives.
• Communicate and work with outside departments or vendors to achieve quick response for quality issues interrupting line or placing units on-hold.
• Perform operator audits to assure proper sequence, time and process of operator tasks and maintain records.
• Train associates to prepare and implement Kaizens and small group activities.
• Assists in ISO department activities, CAR and SCAR activity. Assist in closing CAR’s assigned to department.
• Attend ECM meetings and communicate ECN’s with supervisors.
• Assist the team with designing new systems, workstations, part presentation and part preservation. Assist in building, installing, organizing workstations. Revising all pertinent work instructions, photo standards etc. in accordance with YMMC quality management system
• Rework defective units.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong work ethic, on-time attendance performance, with a high degree of reliability is required to be successful in this role.
• Must interact positively and effectively with all layers of Management, co-workers and subordinates
• Enough physical ability to perform moderate to heavy lifting; standing and walking for prolonged periods of time; climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and operating motorized equipment.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• CI Technician 4 is required to have working knowledge of the units being produced, processes and experience in quality testing.
• Must demonstrate strong leadership qualities and proven problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to successfully complete a target number of Kaizens per year.

Education / Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED (General Education Diploma) required.
• 3 year’s minimum experience in manufacturing, required.
• Intermediate computer skills required: Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook).
• Prior Kaizen experience preferred.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

100% of your time is on the manufacturing facility floor. This position requires employee to frequently work in a fluid, fast paced environment. No travel is required in this role.

The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of this job, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, the above is intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

Management retains discretion to add or change duties of this position at any time.

Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Where required by state law and/or city ordinance; this employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.