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Deadline of these Jobs: 25 October 2022
BURN designs, manufactures, and distributes aspirational fuel-efficient cooking products that save lives and forests in the developing world.BURN has revolutionized the global cookstove sector by proving the business case for selling a high quality, locally manufactured and unsubsidized cookstoves.

Senior Technology Engineer - Material Handling

About the role:

  • To research, and develop new material handling methodologies, technologies, and systems to eliminate wastes, and to improve the safety, quality, cost, and efficiency of the material handling processes throughout the value stream.
  • To support BURN’s different departments with material handling standards, best practices, and know-how.
  • To collaborate with various engineering departments at BURN in material handling process excellence activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with the internal departments to perfectly understand the materials to be handled, and the requirements of the material handling process from RM to FG.
  • Assess, evaluate, and analyze the safety, cost, quality, and efficiency of the current material handling processes.
  • Develop best practices, and innovative solutions to improve material handling throughout the value-adding process and to lead new material handling process and system development projects:
    • Initiation, scoping, concept validation, risk assessment, and ROI for the new system.
    • Spec’ing of the new system.
    • Lead all technical discussions with international and local vendors.
    • Manage the related communications among all internal and external parties.
    • Plan, monitor, control, and report the progress of the project.
    • Documentation and standardization of the new process/technology.
    • Support the implementation team with standards, and know-how when needed.
  • Development and standardization of RM, and WIP Kanban systems.
  • Development and standardization of BURN’s product CKD strategy.
  • Collaborate with BURN’s QA team to develop material handling SOPs.
  • Assist in material handling technology transfer to new local and global sites

Skills and Experience:

  • Mechanical/Industrial engineering degree.
  • 5 to 8 years of experience in the design and/or development of material handling systems with at least 3 years in sheet metal factories, and/or manual product assembly facilities.
  • Very good understanding of sheet metal material handling techniques, and equipment.
  • Very good understanding of racking system design and requirements.
  • Good knowledge of container sizes, and loading/offloading best practices.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Strong MS Excel skills.
  • Strong communications and presentation skills.
  • Lean Six Sigma green belt holders are preferred.
  • CAD skills: Candidates capable of using SolidWorks and/or AutoCAD 2D are preferred.
  • Creative.
  • Problem solver.
  • Good listener.
  • Self-confident.
  • Excellent communicator.
  • Detail oriented and well-organized.
  • Team player.

Senior Technology Engineer - NPD

About the Role:

  • To research, develop, and deliver new methodologies and technologies in the domain of product assembly, and sheet metal manufacturing.
  • To support BURN’s different engineering departments with standards, best practices, and know-how.
  • To collaborate with various engineering departments at BURN in process excellence activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Leading new manufacturing process development projects:
    • Initiation, scoping, concept validation, risk assessment, and ROI for the new process.
    • Spec’ing of the required machines, equipment, and tools for the new process.
    • Lead all technical discussions with international and local vendors.
    • Manage the related communications among all internal and external parties.
    • Plan, monitor, control, and report the progress of the project.
    • Documentation and standardization of the new process/technology.
    • Support the ERP and planning team in creating the phase-in plan for the new process.
    • Support the implementation team with standards, and know-how when needed.
  • Leading factory layout projects:
    • Assessment and analysis of the current state layouts.
    • Development of innovative solutions for a better factory layout and material flow.
    • Design and CAD of the future state layouts.
    • Identification, documentation, and standardization of the scope of work of the layout implementation projects.
    • Monitor, control, and report the progress of the layout design projects.
    • Support the implementation team with standards, and know-how when needed.
  • Develop best practices, and innovative solutions to improve material handling throughout the value-adding process.
  • Development and standardization of BURN’s products CKD strategy.
  • Working with BURN’s QA and Engineering departments on process mapping, documentation, and standardization of the engineering processes and factory standards.
  • Building analytical models to support manufacturing problem-solving and decision-making processes.
  • Assist in building BURN’s manufacturing standards database and technology roadmap.
  • Assist in knowledge and manufacturing standards transfer to new local and global sites.

Skills and Experience:

  • Graduated from Mechanical/Industrial engineering school.
  • 5 to 8 years of experience in manufacturing, at least 3 years in sheet metal factories and/or manual product assembly lines.
  • Worked at least in one of the following areas during their career:
  • Factory layout.
  • New process development.
  • Home appliances and/or automotive product CKD.
  • Development of material handling systems.
  • Process mapping, documentation, and standardization of engineering processes and best practices.
  • CAD skills: Capable of using SolidWorks and/or AutoCAD 2D.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Strong MS Excel skills.
  • Strong communications and presentation skills.
  • Lean Six Sigma green belt holders are preferred.
  • Problem solver.
  • Good listener.
  • Self-confident.
  • Excellent communicator.
  • Detail oriented and well-organized.
  • Team player.
Job Info
Job Category: Several Jobs in one Advert jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 25 October 2022
Duty Station: several locations
Posted: 12-10-2022
No of Jobs: 2
Start Publishing: 12-10-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 12-10-2066
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