Manufacturing Excellence Area Lead

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Position Title: 

Manufacturing Excellence Area Lead

 

Pay Rate:

$91,500 – $134,200

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills, and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Variable pay may provide additional opportunities for financial awards. This job is eligible to participate in IP’s short–term incentive plan.

 

Category/Shift:

Salaried Full-Time

 

Physical Location:

801 42nd ST

Springfield, OR 97478

 

 

The Job You Will Perform:

 

The Area Manufacturing Excellence Lead (AMEL) reports directly to the Manager of Manufacturing Excellence in Springfield, Oregon.  Within their assigned department, the AMEL is directly responsible for the Manufacturing Excellence process, which includes year-over-year (YOY) continuous improvement in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, reliability and cost reduction.

 

The AMEL must ensure close coordination with resources at all levels of the organization, including Business Unit Managers, Area Managers, and the “improve” resources (Reliability Engineers, Capital Engineers and others), to ensure the department’s improvement plan is coordinated and cohesive. 

 

This position is responsible for:

• Dedicated resource for deliberate improvement projects.
• Facilitate deliberate improvement project execution in business unit.
• Mentor white, yellow and green belt candidates during certification.
• R-Gap and A-Gap identification and validation for the Business Unit.
• Assist the Business Unit Manager and Manager Manufacturing Excellence in developing the department’s yearly Budget + 4 plans to close the gap on identified opportunities. 
  • Manages plan and tracks progress to insure Business Unit meets or exceeds YOY commitment.
• Engage employees throughout the business unit including: maintenance mechanics, operators and First Line Leaders in idea generation and implementation/execution
• Ask targeted questions of crews on their ideas to close specific gaps identified through R-Gap/A-Gap; share data illustrating gaps/benchmarks to facilitate discussion
• Utilize A3 process for non-capital and capital project execution within the business unit.
• Promote need for non-capital solutions
• Coordinate use of the ME toolb