Senior Lean Specialist, Advanced Facilities Group

Senior Lean Specialist, Advanced Facilities Group

Location:

Tempe, AZ, US, 85281 Austin, TX, US, 78704 Atlanta, GA, US, 30339 Dallas, TX, US, 75254

JE Dunn’s Advanced Facilities Group (AFG) combines Mission Critical, Advanced Industries, and Industrial & Manufacturing into one high-performing team focused on cutting-edge work to serve innovative clients on large Industrial & Manufacturing, Data Center, and Semiconductor projects. As part of the Advanced Facilities team, you'll work on some of the most advanced construction projects across the country, growing your career alongside our diverse team of industry professionals.

The Senior Lean Specialist will train internal team on a greater variety of Lean tools and develop and maintain Lean transformation processes and programs. This position will be responsible for creating and maintaining training/planning materials, coaching project teams, and helping all employees understand and apply Lean Principles to their work. All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.

• Autonomy & Decision-Making: is expected to function independently in the role with supervision and oversight as needed. Follows directions and refers all exceptions to supervisor.

LEAN SPECIALIST FAMILY - CORE

• Trains internal staff on Lean tools. Helps develop and maintain Lean transformation processes and programs.
• Coaches and supports project teams and/or internal customers with implementation of the basic Lean tools such as Last Planner System, Kanban, meeting facilitation and continuous improvement programs.
• Trains and supports the office and/or region with basic lean tools including but not limited to, Value Stream Mapping, A3’s, 5S, Visual Management, Kanban and Kaizen.
• Trains and coaches employees and team members to understand the Work Flow Commitment Loop (reliable promising).
• May lead and train PMs and Superintendents to run effective Pull Planning sessions, weekly Planning sessions and Daily Stand-up sessions through a lead/co-facilitate/coach model.
• Assumes responsibility for bringing all components of the Last Planner System together to function as a system. Trains and coaches the team in LPS practices.
• Actively participates in the development and maintenance of the organization’s ongoing Lean journey.
• Challenges project team members and employees to identify, remove and resolve constraints that prevent the team from fulfilling commitments.
• Maintains level of standards of lean tools used among project teams or within the organization.
• Utilizes current training materials and customizes to specific assigned customer.
• Looks for opportunities to improve current training materials.
• Serves as an ongoing resource for assigned projects and employees to help identify opportunities for improvement.

SENIOR LEAN SPECIALIST

In addition, this position will be responsible for the following:

• Training, teaching and coaching a larger variety and/or more complex tools such as Choosing By Advantages, Target Value Design and Integrated Project Delivery support.
• Facilitates larger groups and complex project teams.
• Engages a variety level of leaders to coach, train and teach Lean concepts.
• Creates or contributes to new training materials.

• Ability to perform work accurately and completely, and in a timely manner.
• Communication skills, verbal and written (Advanced).
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Ability to facilitate meetings and build consensus.
• Ability to conduct effective presentations (Intermediate).
• Ability to coach.
• Ability to adapt and respond to dynamic…