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 through-out the plant.
• Collaborate with support functions in implementing lean, metrics, and dashboards for all processes.
• Coordinate and engage organizations outside of SCM (ie. Quality, safety, SPS, etc) 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. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 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) 

Minimum Requirements:

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

Working Conditions: