Operational Excellence Manager
About The Position
The Operational Excellence Manager will be responsible for building and maintaining a strong working knowledge of HPPS lean manufacturing processes and tools. This role involves educating key personnel on continuous process improvement strategies, leading training initiatives, and focusing on eliminating both short-term and long-term problems. The manager will foster commitment and understanding of HPPS lean principles to achieve organizational improvement goals, assist in Value Stream Map development, and facilitate the setting of priorities, objectives, goals, measures, and metrics for process improvement projects. This includes ensuring projects are monitored and controlled, developing project plans for each VSM, and specifying appropriate lean process improvement methodologies and tools. The role requires working with shop floor managers to plan and lead improvement projects, involving management to remove barriers, providing guidance to sustain changes, and communicating lessons learned and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering
- 5 years’ experience in a Lean Manufacturing leadership role
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate with individuals at all levels of the organization.
- Formal training/certification in lean manufacturing.
- Experience of facilitating and training a technical work force.
- Strong ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and worldwide entities.
- Proven experience in implementing lean manufacturing tools in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of MRP and Microsoft Office software and particularly spreadsheet applications.
- Detail orientated.
- Strong ability to work independently.
- Ability to travel as needed.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in the application of Industrial Engineering principles and concepts are desired, preferably with Time & Motion studies.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a strong working knowledge of the HPPS lean manufacturing processes and tools.
- Educate key people within the organization on the recommended approaches for continuous process improvement.
- Lead training to implement identified strategies for improvement.
- Focus on continuous improvement to eliminate short and long-term problems.
- Build commitment and understanding of the HPPS lean principles to accomplish the improvement goals for the organization.
- Assist in the development of the Value Stream Maps.
- Facilitate the setting of priorities, objectives, goals, measures and metrics for process improvement projects, ensuring that these are monitored and controlled.
- Ensure that a project plan is developed and agreed for each VSM.
- Specify the appropriate lean process improvement methodologies and tools.
- Work with shop floor managers to plan and lead improvement projects.
- Involve management in improvement projects in an effort to eliminate barriers to team success.
- Provide guidance to sustain improvement changes.
- Communicate lessons learned and best practices from improvement skills.
- Accepts assignments and other responsibilities as required to support team objectives.
- Required to adhere to applicable TS16949 and ISO 14001 requirements.
- Required to adhere to all Environmental Health and Safety Regulations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
