Lean Manufacturing Specialist

Location: Fletcher

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.