About this role
Role Summary: This role involves facilitating continuous improvement implementation at the business level. Shall lead/facilitate cross-functional teams in the application of Continuous improvement tools to achieve process improvements. Accountable for teaching/coaching Lean enterprise methods and integrating with the business to form and execute business improvement plans that deliver tangible benefits to business performance. This role will contribute to build a people-first culture that delivers significant business results.
Responsibilities:
• Develops an OPEX deployment and roll-out plan to support the Plant and Platform business targets.
• Leads the current state analysis and future state design of processes and identifies improvement opportunities and projects.
• Supports the plant teams to prioritize, scope the OPEX activities and align these to Plant / Platform objectives.
• Supports the plants with the OPEX implementation by conducting improvement events / projects (Line functions and working groups are responsible for implementation results)
• Conducts training on needed methods and tools to support competency building for the workgroups.
• Conducts coaching and performs assessments to ensure methodologies are applied correctly and deliver results.
• Supports the Plant Manager in the governance, tracking of implementation actions, results, and ensures timely escalation.
• Performs plant self-assessments to establish maturity levels; support the plant to implement the action fields.
• Identifies, documents, and shares best practices with the corporate teams
Accountability & Authority
• Achieving savings as targeted by platform.
• Identify, define and Mentor CI Projects in plant.
• Monitor, track, and report project status
• Guide teams for executing CI Projects with approach, tools, support and escalate when required.
• Conduct Op-ex, operational excellence assessment and work for gaps to improve plant performance and achieve CI Objectives
• Conduct training and organize kaizen events for improvements
Requirements:
• Typically,10+ Years of industrial experience5+ years of experience in Operation Excellence / CI.
• Knowledge on Product – Valves manufacturing.
• Manufacturing Process knowledge & Flow / Layout / Throughput time
• Knowledge on Assembly & Testing
• Reading of Drawings and tolerance requirements (GD&T)
• Knowledge on SAP / ERP
• Lean tools & applications -
• Practitioner of Lean tools including VSM (Value Stream Mapping), OFP Operations Flow Process, Material-flow, Structured problem-solving methodology, OEE, Product-process / machinery matrix, Activity analysis, Future state design, Lean Layouts, FIFO, Kitting process, Shop Floor Management & Office floor management
• 7 Quality Tool Practitioner (fishbone, 5 Why’s / Ishikawa, Histograms, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, Scatter Diagrams and Stratification)
• 6S Improvements
• Ability to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the business.
• Experience in Power BI dashboard development
• Application development / deployment experience with PowerApps and power platform business
• Excellent oral, written and facilitation communication skills.
• Experienced inn Industry or Business experience where LEAN or Operational Excellence is core to the business.
• Knowledge on Data analysis & Visualization
• Demonstrated Change Management Experience
• Strong Facilitation Experience: Instructional Design is a plus.
• QMS & EMS knowledge
• Six Sigma or LEAN Certified