Vice President Continuous Improvement

Vice President of Continuous Improvement

DUTIES/ RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive and develop a lean manufacturing culture, and ensure the realization of continuous improvement strategies, resulting in significant productivity gains across the organization
• Work with the Regional and Site leadership teams to support the development of their CI roadmaps, linked to our strategic development plans
• Responsible for identifying and leveraging best practices across our BU’s, to enable standardization and optimization of our processes
• Support the culture change towards continuous improvement by training, developing, and coaching
• Promote and lead the lean and problem-solving philosophy, by driving improvements to our processes throughout the organization
• Lead and facilitate kaizen events, delivering breakthrough and sustainable using other tools including SMED, Standard Work and Value Stream Mapping
• Mentor teams and leadership during early stages of lean implementation to ensure forward momentum is maintained
• Emphasize the set up and use of visual management to drive everyday problem solving and to ensure attainment of financial commitments
• Develop and deliver training material, coaching, and mentoring related to Lean & Six Sigma principles, and data-driven decision-making
• Proactively lead and contribute to cost reduction and improvement initiatives
• Support the development of new products and manufacturing processes
• Mentor teams during early stages of lean implementation to ensure forward momentum is maintained
• Emphasize and set up use of visual management on the shop floor to drive everyday problem solving and to ensure attainment of financial commitments
• Lead the Global Continuous Improvement team through both direct and indirect reporting relationships.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8+ years Manufacturing experience, automotive electronics preferred
• 10+ years of experience working in a lean manufacturing environment and or business system such as the Toyota Prodction System
• 7 years if technical and operational continuous improvement leadership (leader of leaders)
• Lead / Facilitated multiple kaizen events, delivering breakthrough and sustainable results
• Six Sigma Black Belt required
• Lean tools such as Value Stream Maooing, PDCA, SMED, Kanban, 5S and Visual Management, and Poke Yoke
• Proven ability to lead others in use of Six Sigma problem-solving methodology and rigor, while maintaining a focus on improving business productivity and results
• Requires demonstrated success in process improvement for reduction in waste, reduction in cost and/or improvement in process control
• Strong leadership skills in a matrixed environment
• Requires high energy and a willingness to make process improvements based on data and investigation

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