Manufacturing Excellence Leader (Warren, OH)

Manufacturing Excellence Leader (Warren, OH)

Job Description

Provides strategic leadership for Continuous Improvement (CI) and capabilities processes and teams at the manufacturing site.  This position is responsible to provide leadership to embed a manufacturing excellence and change management mindset.  They will also develop capability and a learning culture through Training 4 Excellence (T4E) standards and processes and drive cost savings and process improvements using various tools and techniques such as Operational Excellence (OPEX) and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Fuel to Grow (F2G), while fostering a strong, people first culture for the site.  This position plays a critical role in developing and cascading Regional Improvement strategy, defining metrics, and leveraging influential skills to sponsor cost savings initiatives and efficiencies. Leadership responsibilities include: Change management, Digital Transformation, Cost savings, and Training teams.

In this role, you will:

Safety:

• Implement loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value. 

• Support and Champion safety in your manufacturing site and team by driving educational and behavioral processes through the application of OPEX, LSS and T4E tools. 

• Lead your team to complete safety objectives and ensure a safe working environment.

Quality: 

• Champion and support Continuous Improvement and T4E programs and processes as the way to deliver quality and process capability improvements.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

People:

• Focus on Organizational Transformation and Culture:

• Manage teams in accordance with the principles and tenets of the plant’s High Performance Work System and expected K-C Values: We Care, We Own, We Act and Ways of Working: Focus on Consumers, Play to Win, Move Fast and Grow our People.

• Manage, develop, and support direct reports (T4E Leader, Digital Manufacturing Leader) to lead changes and developments throughout the site and within each function.

Lead your site’s organization to:

• Develop and execute an overall site plan that aligns to the regional strategy to drive a cultural transformation, increasing the engagement and enablement of all team members.

• Build capability of the asset teams to help lead and manage organizational transformations

• Incorporate organizational transformation thinking into your team’s processes and tools, including leveraging Digital Manufacturing resources

• Provide high-level planning with the oversight and/or hands-on execution of the four key areas of Change Management related to site specific initiatives

• Prepare the Change: Build strong partnerships, consult with leadership, demonstrate empathy, and collaborate on success criteria and KPI progress.

• Manage the Change: Develop change plan roadmaps, communication, and capability building plans. Identify and escalate issues, solicit feedback, and support project teams with gap analysis and business process discussions.

• Lead Change Enablement: Manage change networks, ensure participant engagement, and develop and deliver relevant updates.

• Reinforce the Change: Develop long-term strategies, address resistance, and continuously monitor and adjust the change process.

Delivery:

• Provide strategy to build capability of all team members at the site through the Training 4 Excellence program:

• Provide leadership support to your T4E leader in their efforts to develop, facilitate and manage the site’s training strategies aligned to the regional strategy, including providing support to the plant On-the-Job system skill trainers.

• Ensure respective team members are active participants in regional networks in the areas they support, sharing learnings and adopting and applying one best way standards and process.

• Ensure collaboration between T4E and Digital Manufacturing to drive training and usage throughout the site.

Delivery:

• Provide strategic direction to drive Continuous Improvement, using standard tools and processes, across all functions in the site:

• Provide Strategic leadership for site’s CI programs and efforts.

• Reinforce the iOPEX processes and tools to ensure sustainability of the iOPEX program.

• Build capability and leadership throughout the plant to reinforce commitment to standards and centerlining, returning out of standard/red conditions to green and problem solving

• Ensure standa