Associate, Continuous Improvement

Req ID: Remote Position: NoRegion: AmericasCountry: MexicoState/Province: Nuevo LeonCity: Monterrey**General Overview**:**Job Title**: Associate, Continuous Improvement**Functional Area**: Continuous Improvement (CI)**Career Stream**: Continuous Improvement (CTIM)**Role**: Associate (AST)**Job Code**: AST-CI-CTIM**Job Band**:06**Direct/Indirect Indicator**: Indirect**Summary**:Support the CI manager/team in the development of a CI (Lean and Six Sigma) vision for a customer or department, and the strategy deployment plans and continuous improvement activities to deliver that strategy. Learn the Lean fundamentals through training and participating in CI activities. The employee works under a high degree of supervision and requires direction on how CI assignments are to be executed.**Detailed Description**:Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:- Support the execution of Yearly CI activities plan and ensure that project goals are met.- Participant in the Gemba (Go and See) activities, Perform weekly Improvement Activities, and Provides the suggestion to the Kaizen team.- Participate in process improvement based CI workshops. Example:, Internal Kaizen Workshop and VSM.- Perform Root Cause Analysis Tool.- Perform Daily Improvement Activity with area owner.- Design Line Balancing for process improvement.- Drive new ideas for improvement solutions with all area owners.**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:- Awareness of CI- Knowledge of production operations and operator responsibilities or function- Collaboration- Communication- Problem solving- Results oriented- Teamwork- Initiative- Flexibility**Physical Demands**:Duties of this position are performed in generally good conditions with occasional exposure (10% - 33%) to noise, odours, dust, drafts, chemicals, operating machinery, temperature extremes, hazardous substances, etc.Duties may require regular periods of sitting and/or standing and sustained visual concentration on observing operations. Repetitive manual movements (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, time studies, assembling workstations/racking, labeling, floor taping, etc., as applicable) are regularly required.Occasional overnight travel is required.**Typical Experience**:Entry level to 1 year of experience.Awareness of CI**Typical Education**:Two or Three Year Community College Diploma**Notes**:Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).**COMPANY OVERVIEW**:Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.