Operational Excellence Leader
About The Position
Imagine yourself… Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you. Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project. Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth. At Hach, a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions. As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth. Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us
Requirements
- 3-5 yrs experience in partitioning lean manufacturing or as a supervisor in a lean manufacturing environment
- BA/BS Degree, STEM field preferred
- Lean manufacturing or six sigma experience (Kaizens, Kanban, standard work, 5S, root cause counter measures, etc.)
- Data analysis and fact-based problem-solving skills
- Data analysis tools; advanced excel skills required with Power BI or other data visualization tool experience preferred
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate effectively with both Sr. Management and production line associates.
- Focus for lean/manufacturing efficiency
- Project management/coordination skills
- Basic understanding of manufacturing financials
Responsibilities
- Increase and maintain the maturity of the Veralto Enterprise System within Operations
- Assess the system elements to identify and prioritize gaps to be closed in process, talent, and education
- Plan and implement improvements to the system
- Lead the kaizen event funnel from idea generation, through coaching change leaders, to implementing and sustaining kaizen event results
- Perform data analysis to identify outliers, trends, and correlations
- Learn and understand the business to interpret data and translate to real world issues and countermeasures
- Become an expert on multiple Veralto lean manufacturing tools and facilitate events
- Coordinate and implement projects by influencing cross functional teams, inside and outside the department
- Develop the broader team in VES through general education/training, problem solving coaching, and administering the practitioner funnel, certification, and deployment
- Train, coach, and drive application of problem-solving process where needed
Benefits
- Professional onboarding and training options
- Powerful team looking forward to working with you
- Career coaching and development opportunities
- Health benefits
- 401(k)
- paid time off
- medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
