Manufacturing Excellence Expert

 

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This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

 

 

LOCATION: Solon, OH (Greater Cleveland Area)

 

TRAVEL: up to 75%

 

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Manufacturing Excellence Expert (ME), as ME Category Support, ensures the development of Factory ME Manager, Production Manager and other key FLT roles in leveraging TPM/Autonomy and Industrial Performance (IP) methodologies to improve results in a continuous and sustainable manner. The role primarily works from the factory and provides guidance and support to define and execute the factory strategy and develop Autonomous Operational teams, as well as ensuring a regular update of accurate key manufacturing information and master data. The Manufacturing Excellence Expert acts as the center of expertise, resource for competence development, and can act as an escalation role for the factory with other corporate functions. This role focuses as well on reapplication of best practices across the different factories.

 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
 

Support the Development of the Tactical Improvement and Execution Plan of the Factories in the Category:
1. Enable the factories to translate the defined manufacturing strategy (at category level) into an Implementation plan considering the following:   

    - Business priorities & category ambition
    - Loss analysis / External benchmarks
    - 3 years planned progression of KPI's, People and workplace transformation (Factory Vision).
    - Ability to leverage use of digital tools to help factory improve losses with applicable/relevant (Digital, Capex, Etc.)
2. Ensures the right cascading of the priorities and measures across all factories in the category.
3. Coach and support the Factory ME Manager to leverage TPM/Autonomy and IP tools to support the business needs and deliver the expected results.
4. Support the ongoing management of the Factory improvement plans by:
    - Evaluating maturity progression and identifying key opportunities together with the Factory ME Manager.
    - Evaluating the strategies and execution of the autonomous workforce development plans. 
    - Coaching and supporting the development of Factory governance / routines to accelerate sustainable results.

 

Support the development of Critical Competence of Factory Leadership Team :
1. Provides hands on approach to Factory Leadership Team / Pillar Owners to accelerate improvements of results (coach by doing with factory). 

2. Support & Coach the Training & Learning Pillar to establish and evaluate robustness of function/pillar capability building plan
3. Ensures an overall understanding of the different TPM/Autonomy methodologies (pillars) and IP productivity tools within the functions and how they integrate through the Improvement implementation plan
4. Develop the Factory ME Manager on key system/tool competences based on the development plan to develop an autonomous operational team.

 

Enable factories to drive and execute the Improvement Implementation Plan to improve and sustain the results. 
1. Promote and support factory reapplication of best manufacturing practices, standards, and improvements across category/factories 

2. Lead/support as member Rapid Improvement Projects to accelerate the delivery of results in key areas of the factory
3. Coach factory ME manager and FLT to identify key losses and root cause by applying LTA/IPA and problem-Solving methodologies
4. Evaluate the health of systems, tools, and competence building to improve the factory results in a continuous and sustainable manner. Escalate functional support resource needs where appli