Associate Director Operational Excellence | Project Manager

Job Description

Associate Director Operational Excellence | Project Manager

In this role, you would work as a Lean Practitioner/Coach and Project/Program Manager. As an internal lean practitioner and coach, you will identify, analyze, act upon, and instruct others on improvements both strategically and based on daily problems. In this position, you will lead or be involved with teams on all facets of the value stream to improve business outcomes.   You will apply lean tools, thinking, and change management methodologies as you develop colleagues at all levels so that continuous improvement is in everyone's DNA. As a project and program manager, you will lead projects to improve supply, increase productivity/reduce cost. You will lead teams with value-scouting exercises and lead more complex projects to achieve business outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities Lean Practitioner/Coach

• Initiate, implement, and coach improvement projects using Lean tools (Standardization, 5S, Poke Yoke, Kaizens, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Management, etc.) to create flow and work smarter to improve performance, safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

• Hands-on support for operational problems and cross-functional investigations by conducting thorough scientific problem-solving techniques.

• Coach lean roadmaps and provide training.

• Continue to develop yourself in lean, inclusion, and change management. With this knowledge, you develop colleagues at all organizational levels by leading by example during improvement initiatives and coaching sponsors and stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities of Project/Program Manager

• Facilitating value scouting workshops at sites.

• Project lead on larger cost savings projects.

• Lead regional cost-saving project governance and reporting.

Required Experience and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in project management, biology, engineering, or a relevant field.

• 5-7 years of demonstrable Program Management and Project Management experience in coaching staff in incorporating continuous improvement into their departments.

• Experience in facilitating project teams and project management.

• Result-oriented and able to manage many different tasks/projects and demonstrated ability to adapt to changes in priorities.

• Proficient in working with data, making trends visible, and performing data analysis.

• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Project, etc.)

• Team player with a "go-to-the-gemba" attitude, analytical & eager to learn.

• A pleasant, communicative skilled personality who can connect and coach colleagues in production as well as within management. Demonstrated ability to coach and influence management and change management.

• Experience with deploying and coaching lean in multiple environments

• Demonstrated use of all commonly used lean tools and concepts.

• Experience deploying strategy (Hoshin Kanri, Policy Deployment) and A3 Thinking in multiple levels of an organization.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Master's degree in management or business.

• Project Management Certification

• Formal training in Lean

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