As our next, you'll influence world-class engineering initiatives. You will be instrumental in driving continuous improvement and flawless execution across our diverse and ambitious teams. This is an outstanding opportunity to lead in a collaborative environment where your expertise will build the future of our Lean Management System and beyond! This critical role focuses on strategy deployment and value-stream mapping leadership
Qualifications and experience:
1. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience in engineering, operations, science, or business; a Master’s degree or equivalent background is preferred.
2. Solid experience with problem-solving, Lean methodologies, or other approaches to improving processes. Six-sigma Black Belt or Lean Expertise is a plus.
3. Experienced Lean practitioner with proven experience in PPI as a Business System or similar prior experience. This includes working in the Toyota Production System (TPS), Danaher Business System (DBS), Honeywell Operating System (HOS), or other recognized Lean business system models.
4. 5+ years of operations and/or engineering experience working for a premier, multinational organization preferred.
Knowledge, skills, abilities
5. A hands-on track record of implementing successful Continuous Improvement (CI) elements such as: Lean Leadership (Daily Management, LSW, and Gemba Walks)
6. Strong financial and statistical acuity with experience in building efficiency funnels and project decks.
7. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
8. A multidisciplinary problem solver who influences leaders to develop groundbreaking target states and motivates organizational change.
9. The ability to independently own initiatives and drive execution in a matrix reporting environment.
10. A strong change agent, demonstrating and promoting change while mentoring and facilitating teams.
11. Good project management skills
12. Kaizen events including standard work, cell build, 3P, Value-Analysis/Value Engineering, error-proofing, material flow, heijunka, and kanban