Lean Manufacturing Specialist
Description
Essential Duties and 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.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- 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
- Six Sigma Certification, PMP Certification, APICS Certification a plus
- 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)
Minimum Requirements:
Education:
- Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering or a closely related field is required. Applicable experience may be substituted for education requirements.
Experience:
- 5+ years as a change agent utilizing various methodologies within a manufacturing environment.
- 5+ years Industrial/manufacturing/engineering/LEAN experience
Working Conditions:
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Sitting in the same location of standing/walking; required to stoop, climb or lift light material (10-20lbs) or equipment.
ENVIRONMENT: Located in an indoor area with frequent exposure to mild physical discomfort from dust, fumes, temperature extremes, loud noises and bright lights.