Lean and Automation Engineer

Job Title: Lean and Automation Engineer
Location Davie, FL –This role is100% Onsite. Candidates MUST BE LOCAL to Davie, FL
Duration: 6 months with possible extensions
Pay: $45.00 – $55.00 based on experience
Shift Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 pm

Education:

• Master’s degree in industrial, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, or a related technical discipline is required.

Experience:

• 2-3 years of pharmaceutical industry experience is required, including at least 2 years supporting Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) or tableting/compression operations.
  

• Demonstrated completion of waste-reduction or automation projects with the candidate as the primary executor, not a coordinator.

Required Core Essential Skill Set:

• Lean Manufacturing, DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, SMED, OEE improvement, statistical analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and hands-on process analysis.
  

• Ability to identify opportunities, develop business cases, quantify benefits, and build practical workflows, dashboards, or data tools.
  

• Strong project ownership and effective cross-functional execution within GMP, data-integrity, safety, and quality requirements.

Preferred Skills:
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt; strong Green Belts with proven hands-on delivery considered. A practical project example will be discussed on site.

• Power BI, Power Automate, advanced Excel, SQL, SAP, MES/EBR, and historian or manufacturing analytics platforms.
  

• Experience applying modern analytics and AI-enabled tools to improve operational reliability and performance.
  

• Self-starter with strong analytical, troubleshooting, systems-thinking, communication, documentation, and compliance skills.
  

• Ability to challenge historical practices and carry an approved idea through build, training, implementation, handoff, and sustainment.

Job Summary
We’re looking for a hands-on Continuous Improvement & Automation Engineer who identifies, assesses, builds, and implements solutions that reduce waste and improve manufacturing performance – not a facilitator or meeting coordinator. You will personally bring approved projects to life through analysis, solution development, automation build, training, implementation, and sustainment. Success is measured by high-quality opportunities identified, approved projects implemented, Finance-validated benefits delivered, and compliant results sustained. This role offers meaningful ownership and impact in a regulated Oral Solid Dosage environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Personally perform process studies, time studies, waste assessments, and bottleneck analysis to identify improvement and automation opportunities.
  

• Develop evidence-based opportunity assessments covering the baseline, expected operational and financial benefit, implementation needs, cost, risk, timing, and sustainment approach.
  

• Present opportunities to the Site Leadership Team (SLT) for prioritization, approval, and sponsorship; project priority and resource commitment remain with the SLT.
  

• Own approved projects from analysis through solution build, training, implementation, benefit realization, and sustainment, working with Operations, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and IT/OT as required.
  

• Develop and deploy practical digital and analytics tools, including Power BI dashboards, Power Automate workflows, and electronic data collection, to eliminate non-value-added work.
  

• Improve OEE, cleaning and changeover/setup time, labor productivity, throughput, and capacity across manufacturing, laboratories, offices, and warehouse operations.
  

• Partner with Finance to classify and validate benefits consistently, maintain one agreed view of project value, and prevent duplicate reporting or double counting.
  

• Establish process ownership, standard work, training, controls, documentation, and performance tracking before project closure.
  

• Ensure all improvements comply with GMP, data integrity, safety, quality, change-control, and validation requirements in an FDA-regulated environment.

Why Kelly?
Kelly® puts you in charge of your career, with access to cutting edge projects and technologies in industry leading organizations. Top companies throughout the world have trusted Kelly as a premier source of engineering & scientific talent and services since 1965. And Engineering & Scientific job seekers know Kelly® as a firm with an unmatched reputation for quality, integrity and professionalism. Whether you seek the variety and flexibility of working on short-term project engagements or prefer contract-to-hire or direct hire placement with our clients, apply with Kelly® to explore opportunities that suit your specific professional interests.

As a Kelly Services employee, you will have access to numerous perks, including:

• Exposure to a variety of career opportunities as a result of our expansive network of client companies 
  

• Career guides, information and tools to help you successfully position yourself throughout every stage of your career
  

• Access to more than 3,000 online training courses through our Kelly Learning Center
  

• Weekly pay and service bonus plans
  

• Group-rate insurance options available immediately upon hire*

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