Lean Manufacturing Specialist

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 throughout the plant.
• Collaborate with support functions in implementing lean, metrics, and dashboards for all processes.
• Coordinate and engage organizations outside of SCM (e.g., Quality, Safety, SPS) 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.

• 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).

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.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Sitting in the same location or standing/walking; required to stoop, climb or lift light material (10-20 lbs) 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.