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