HNI Corporation Careers

Description

HNI Corporation is a global family of brands for the workplace and home dedicated to enhancing the spaces where we live, work, and gather. We pride ourselves on fostering an environment where we make a positive impact on others; upholding our beliefs in integrity, inclusion and belonging.

Your Impact Starts the Day You Do!

What We Need:

We are looking for an Engineering Technician to join our HNI Workplace Furnishings - Operations team. 

• Support Factory member safety by actively participating and engaging the leadership team on making the SPFMEA a live document and consistently make efforts to reduce Risk Priority Number (RPN) and achieve X point by the end of the year

• Support factory quality metrics by actively participating and engaging the leadership team on making the PFMEA a living document and make efforts to reduce RPN by X points by the end of the year.
• Support factory quality metrics by achieving 90%+ LPA completion rate and control plan validation for assigned flows daily.
• Drive process control utilizing tier management system, and escalations:
• Utilize tier process to ensure the escalations are managed and completed promptly.
• Ensure that process control tools are correct, living and being followed (utilizing factory leadership)
• Deep dive quality and other factory issues using problem solving skills
• Complete problem-solving activities using 8D and other problem-solving tools, aligning with the factory needs, and coaching members as appropriate
• Reduce customer impact of poor-quality products
• Ensure that members are following established process standards
• Audit product/parts to ensure that parts are manufactured to print.
• Act as the customer. Members should be comfortable communicating with management and making decisions utilizing data.
• Drive process control utilizing tier management system, and escalations.
• Utilize tier process to ensure the escalations are managed and completed promptly.
• Ensure that process control tools are correct, living and being followed (utilizing factory leadership)

• Support factory delivery metrics by engaging production members, leadership team, and maintenance members to improve equipment uptime by reducing maintenance related downtime by 20% through implementation of effective OPM and TPM for equipment on assigned production flows

• Support factory cost metrics to reduce scrap cost by completing 90%+ daily inbound audits for raw materials for assigned production flows 

• Day-To-Day Responsibilities: 
• Process and product quality adherence to standards. – line calls, incoming inspection, and SCAR’s.
• Change management – Document maintenance (Safety and Quality) FMEA, JSA, LOTO, Critical to Quality, factory standards, PM procedures.
• Tier escalation support – Daily escalations, CAR resource for problem solving activities.
• Perform 3Tec imports and other daily information flow standard work
• Troubleshoot machine, tooling, programming, and information flow failures and partner with Skilled Trades, Tooling, and Engineering for repairs

• Team Structure:
• Effectively work alongside Engineers, Group Leaders, Skilled Trades and Production 
• Partner with Safety and Quality teams
• Indirectly support production members 
• Reports to Factory Manager  

• Improvement opportunities: 
• This position is a new position and work instructions for many of the tasks do not exist 
• Tasks for this position will be pulled from different groups – GLs, WZLs, Engineering, Safety and Quality – this member will need to be able to work with many different teams/members to document standards
• This position will need to support both 1^st and 2^nd shift operations and will be asked to work hours that supports both shifts as needed

• Critical Competencies:
• Team player & organization/planning: able to prioritize work while serving multiple stakeholders
• Relationship building members in this role will excel at building relationships across multiple factories and groups
• Learning agility & problem solving must show a desire to learn continuously, an ability to become the expert using multiple resources, and be a skilled problem solver
• Analytics & technical skills: strong attention to detail, able to analyze data and trends and summarize, seamlessly work with technology

• Key Performance Metrics Summary:
  • Reduction in PFMEA of X points in RPN for assigned production flows
  • 90%+ Daily LPA completion rate and control plan validation for assigned flows
• Safety: Reduction in SPFMEA of X points in RPN for assigned production flows
• Quality: 
• Delivery: Improve equipment uptime by reducing maintenance related downtime by 20% through implementation of effective OPM and TPM for equipment on assigned production flows
• Cost: Reduce scrap cost by completing 90%+ daily inbound audits for raw materials for assigned production flows  

HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI) is a manufacturer of workplace furnishings and building products, operating under two segments. The workplace furnishings segment is a leading global designer and provider of commercial furnishings, going to market under multiple unique brands. The residential building products segment is the nation’s leading manufacturer and marketer of hearth products. We offer benefits starting from Day 1. To learn more, visit www.HNIbenefits.com. Our company endeavors to make www.hnicareers.com accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at 563-272-7400 or via email at [email protected] Company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.