Sr. Spclst, Business Consulting

Job Description

Position Description:

Our MPS program is an integrated production system for how we design, manage, and continuously improve our operations and supporting business processes, enabled through the development of our people. The Durham Team is responsible for driving MPS throughout the Durham site to enable change in the operating systems, management systems, and mindsets, behaviors, and capabilities of our people to produce product in a safe manner at the highest quality, for the lowest cost, and in the shortest lead time.

Under the direction of the Durham Associate Director, MPS, the Senior Specialist, MPS will lead the MPS activities within an Integrated Production Team (IPT), Center of Excellence (CoE) or support the Global Science, Engineering, and Commercialization (GSEC) Project Investments as the MPS Lead.  The Senior Specialist, MPS will develop lean management and people development processes, deliver business results, and transfer MPS mindsets, behaviors & skills within the area assigned. 

Approximately 50% of the time will be spent in production/lab areas providing direct, hands-on support of activities, while 25% will be spent coaching leaders within IPT/CoE/GSEC Project Investment and 25% on working across the site on MPS and sharing knowledge.

MPS Senior Specialist Description of Duties:

• Partner with and consult functional leaders, IPT/CoE Leads/GSEC Project Leads and their leadership teams to develop plans and execute performance improvement activities.
• Influence and link improvement objectives to the highest Durham/GVO/GSEC priorities
• Develop Lean management and people development processes and plans
• Manage end-to-end processes and projects to drive results and realize intended business benefit
• Utilize various Lean and Six Sigma tools and techniques in conjunction with OneMPS to diagnose, analyze and improve business processes
• Provide teaching and coaching to effectively transfer Lean skills into the organization for the development of Lean Leaders
• Partner with MPS peers across other sites to share learnings and best-practices
• Proactively managing knowledge repositories and documents, knowledge, procedures and processes in a standard format that can be accessed and shared across the organization

MPS Senior Specialist Responsibilities & Capabilities:

• Provide guidance for operations and identify key business opportunities through utilizing financial data.
• Proactively recognize and mitigate barriers to initiatives.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and challenging the status quo.
• Manage teams to mitigate risk, allocate resources, and drive on time completion of initiatives.
• Mentor others on effective communication and active listening techniques to fully understand client/customer needs and expectations.
• Lead value deep process analysis through value stream mapping to measure stagnation of inventory and information and can lead kaizen to increase capacity and improve process performance.
• Develop visual controls and framework to make problems visible and responds with urgency to effectively break down complex problems, lead root cause analysis, and develop effective countermeasures.
• Lead and coach kaizen with a team to achieve target conditions.
• Lead kaizen to improve standardized work.
• Can design balanced work to takt time, with smooth flow and leads kaizen to reduce lead time, inventory, and change-over time.
• Able to engage sponsor s and clients, lead changes, and effectively coach leaders and E2E/IP Managers.
• Build trust and develop new relationships with internal and external clients to effectively collaborate and achieve successful outcomes.

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field.
• Minimum of five (5) years of manufacturing(production/quality/technical) experience

Required Experience and Skills:

• Experience analyzing complex end-to-end supply chains and driving process improvement
• Hands-on application of Lean tools and techniques: standardized work, structured problem solving, Leader Standard Work, value stream mapping, mistake proofing, 5S-Visual Factory
• Experience applying consultative skills: ability to influence decision making, ability to interact with all levels of the business (senior leaders to shop floor working teams), project management skills, solid business acumen, proven team building skills, exceptionally good listening skills, results oriented, strong analytical skills, and prior process improvement experience.
• Coaching, Teaching, and driving a High-Performance Organizati