Lean Manufacturing Specialist

Wilsonart International•Fletcher, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Wilsonart, we don’t just make surfaces—we build careers. When you join our team, you become part of something bigger: a company driven by innovation, grounded in values, and powered by people who care. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who take pride in their work and look out for one another. You’ll have the chance to learn, grow and make a real impact. And you’ll be part of a company that believes winning means helping you succeed at work and in life.

Requirements

Highly developed knowledge within a manufacturing environment
Experience managing cross functional project teams in a global matrix organization including advanced understanding and application of management approaches for work direction, motivation, and project team performance
Working knowledge of Toyota Production System or similar required
Manage teams and projects across cultural barriers, both internal (cross organizational) and external (suppliers and customers)
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering or a closely related field is required. Applicable experience may be substituted for education requirements.
5+ years as a change agent utilizing various methodologies within a manufacturing environment.
5+ years Industrial/manufacturing/engineering/LEAN experience

Nice To Haves

Six Sigma Certification, PMP Certification, APICS Certification a plus

Responsibilities

Identify non-value steps and develop and implement lean projects across the local plant organization.
Work with the regional and segment lean teams, as well as management, to ensure implementation buy-in of the plant lean strategy.
Conduct and facilitate Lean Action Workout sessions or similar Value Stream Mapping activities
Develop a sense of urgency in the organization for all improvement activities.
Build and maintain visual controls and metrics aimed at delivering performance data for decision making to management at all levels through-out the plant.
Collaborate with support functions in implementing lean, metrics, and dashboards for all processes.
Coordinate and engage organizations outside of SCM (ie. Quality, safety, SPS, etc) in leveraging knowledge and lessons learned from across Wilsonart.
Always drive safety first and quality into the process.
Partner with plant operations to teach and mentor manufacturing personnel
Achieve specific financial targets related to productivity resulting from LEAN activities.