Associate Director, Operational Excellence MPS

Job Description

  Job Description:   

The West Point, PA site is our Company’s largest vaccine manufacturing facility that manufactures bulk and final dosage forms for our vaccine products and is growing to meet future demand.  Our company’s production system, MPS, is an integrated production system for how we design, manage, and continuously improve our operations and supporting business processes, enabled through the development of our people. The West Point Site MPS Team is responsible for driving MPS throughout the organization to enable change in the operating systems, management systems, and mindsets, behaviors, and capabilities of our people to manufacture product of the highest quality, for the lowest cost, and in the shortest lead time. 

Under the direction of the West Point Site MPS Lead, the successful candidate will work with all levels of site leadership through teaching, 1:1 and team coaching and direct on-the-floor support/on the job development. 

West Point MPS Associate Director, Business Consulting Description of Responsibilities: 

• Effectively coach and partner with functional leaders, plant manager and the leadership team to develop strategic plans and execute performance improvement activities: 

• Influence and link improvement objectives to the highest division priorities that align with our Company’s long-term strategy 

• Provide guidance to frame appropriate business challenges, identifying key business opportunities using data and industry knowledge and trends 

• Able to engage sponsors and clients and manage site-level initiatives to drive results and realize intended business benefit: 

• Mentor leaders on effective communication and active listening techniques to fully understand client/customer needs and expectations 

• Manage teams to mitigate risk, allocate resources, and drive on-time completion of initiatives 

• Provide teaching and coaching to effectively transfer Lean skills into the organization for the development of Lean Leaders and fellow MPS team members who promote a culture of continuous improvement and challenge the status quo.   

• Utilize various Lean standards in conjunction with our standardized deployment roadmap to diagnose, analyze and improve business processes: 

• Strong competency in understanding and implementation of a Closed Loop System (Visual Management, Leader Standardized Work, Problem Solving and MPS/TPS Standards) 

• Grasp the current situation through skillful application of value stream mapping, capacity analysis, and people capability analysis 

• Define a future state and create a master plan to achieve it 

• Develop Lean management systems, including visual management, to make problems visible 

• Respond with urgency to effectively break down complex problems, lead root cause analysis, and develop effective countermeasures 

• Lead and coach kaizens with a team to achieve multiple target conditions that enable progress towards an overall challenge 

• Design balanced work, with smooth flow leading to improved lead time, inventory, quality, and more value-added work for the operator/technician 

• Lead, develop and coach the implementation of level loaded standardized work across the site.  Successful candidate should understand the use of supporting tools, such as Production Capacity sheets, Task Breakdown Sheets and Standardized Work Charts and Combination Tables. 

Qualifications:  

Required Experience and Skills:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field with 5+ years of Lean application experience or 10+ years of Lean application experience with evidence of progression in understanding and successful application of TPS: 

• Experience analyzing complex end-to-end supply chains and driving process improvement for a complete system in an integrated approach 

• Hands-on application of Lean tools: