value stream manager

essential duties and responsibilities: 

• Lead a team of supervisors and associates with a focus on continuous improvement of their operations.
• Ensure a safe and compliant work area, with focus on LOTO, PPE, and 5S standards in their areas.
• Work to reduce/eliminate sources of scrap/defects from the process. Work to minimize sources of waste.
• Ensure that appropriate balancing of resources and schedules are available to eliminate any late or backlogged orders from the value stream.
• Maintain focus on cost of manufacturing, aiming to achieve/exceed yearly targets for productivity.
• Reduce cycle time and changeover time and hold standards compliance to reduce the volume of inventory necessary to support the operations.
• Utilize Lean tools to drive improvements and create understanding/ownership of good CI practices on the team. Work to drive waste from the value stream.
• Conduct Layered Process Audits (LPA) to confirm standard work compliance.

qualifications and requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, or adjacent discipline; or equivalent experience.
• Experience in a continuous improvement leadership and/or manufacturing role with 5+ years of experience.
• Experience leading projects as a project leader and as a participant or mentor for several projects.
• Lean/CI Green Belt preferred.
• Knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, standards, permit requirements.
• Strong technical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong leadership, ability to engage people and motivate them to meet/exceed goals and objectives; and the ability to develop others.
• Fact-based analysis and reporting skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.

  desired skills: 

• Asserts own ideas and persuades others; gains support and mobilizes/motivates people to take action.
• Owns a robust CI toolkit and can share and teach those tools as needed.
• Ability to lead others through change and implementation.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills that provide insight and influence at all levels from business leaders to shop floor associates.
• Ability to hold self and others accountable; establish vision and plan to achieve; manage multiple projects.