Job Description Summary
Coach, drive and lead lean behaviors, principles, and tools by partnering with Operating Leaders in business management roles (e.g. GM of Business Unit, or Executive Lead of a Function). Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics. May also be roles that are part of Corporate or Business Unit Kaizen Promotion Offices (KPO).Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
Strategy and Development
- Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice Lean vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational and transactional performance
- Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on Lean activities
General and Task Management
- Develop a robust continuous improvement strategy in partnership with the Management Team and key business stakeholders
- Implement and support cultural change across the organization and drive business improvement in a Toyota Lean style
- Provide project management, analytical and research skills and expertise
- Provide expertise, professional advice and guidance to the business in business improvement, drawing from proven industry practice and methodologies
- Report on progress of projects, understanding the risks, dependencies, budgets, resourcing, issues, critical milestones and forthcoming pipeline, and actions necessary to ensure success
- Define, develop and publish business improvement process documentation to reflect best practice
- Lead, define and develop continuous improvement activities designed to improve performance, such as the planning and running of lean events
- Attend various meetings and take care/follow up on actions
- Produce written reports and make presentations
- Undertake continuous training and development
- Contribute and support the operational rhythm
- Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems
- Identify business improvement opportunities within the organization
- Conduct risk assessments of processes and tasks in the department
- DfX, support in NPI to ensure manufacturability, automation, standardization
- Support automation and robotization projects in manufacturing and logistics from Lean perspective
- Alignment of 3P with Automation & Robotics integrations
- Support make or buy evaluations
- Good practice evaluation and deployment
- New AI opportunities evaluation and deployment
- Intra functional VSM
Qualifications/Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in an accredited university or college
- Minimum of 10 years of experience
Desired Characteristics
- Fluent English
- Finance acumen
- Project Management
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Lean: 5S, SW, VSM, SMED, Single Piece Flow, Strategy Deployment, Kanban, Heijunka, daily management @ genba, SQDIP/SQDC, VOC, Action Planning
- Problem Solving skills and root cause analysis capabilities
- Kaizen facilitation
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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