Lean Supervisor
Date: 3 Sept 2026
Location: Hefei, AH, CN, 230012
Company: Corning
- Identify manufacturing opportunities including productivity, capacity and cost through lean method
- Build up plant lean structure and roadmap. Take lead to make sure the implementation
- Improve plant lean culture and awareness
- Identifies areas of potential manufacturing related productivity, capacity, and/or quality improvements, performs cost studies and justification analysis. Setup plant lean roadmap with newest lean concept.
- Lead and implement improvements initiatives using Lean Manufacturing techniques to improve productivity, capacity, and/or quality when necessary.
- Ownership of plant wide lean system: Facilitator; Coaching; Implementation; Audit; Data tracking.
- Site champion for lean: proliferate usage of lean tools throughout the plant at all levels;
- Sets up plant wide manufacturing database; Manufacturing waste/loss data collection and analysis
- Leader/Key team member of lean projects
- Key coordinator of TPM and TWI program
- Communicates ideas and status clearly and professionally through graphic and written media, and oral presentations. Provides necessary documentation of activities and results.
- Deliver Lean training and activity to promote lean culture
- Early involve in lean design for future expansion/Capital project
Education & Experience
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Engineering. Industrial Engineering background is preferred
• 5+ years’ experience on lean or IE position
• 3+ years’ experience on the position of lean supervisor or manager
• Strong record of results for a multi-national company
• Experience implementing Lean in a manufacturing environment including use of approaches such as (but not limited to);
− 5S
− Kaizen Events & DMAIC process
− Value stream mapping
− Pull systems and kanban
− Standardized work
− Set up time reduction analysis
− TPM and TWI
Required Skills
• Working knowledge of: 5S, kaizen, Lean/Simplification, cycle time reduction, cost analysis, Value Stream Mapping, line Balance/staffing, work cell design.
• Knowledge of (Lean) organizational design
• Auto CAD Computer Design tools.
• Fluent in written and oral English
• Excellent data analysis and presentation skills
Desired Skills
• Excellent project management and communication skills
• Knowledge of manufacturing excellence tools (AME, KT)
• Working experience with a MNC is preferred.
Soft Skills
• Can do attitude
• Sense of urgency
• Self-motivated, independent, flexible, quick learner and result & detail-oriented
• Ability to build effective working relationships with others across the company
• Ability to promote culture