operational excellence manager.

Key Job Responsibilities
List each key responsibilities in order of importance
Describe the principal mission of the position:
Lean COMPETENCES
- Develop competences of all appropriate people of the Site / Plant about:
- 5S & Product respect.
- Reduction of equipment losses.
- Direct Labor efficiency.
- Scrap reduction.
- WIP reduction.
- Lean industrialization.
- VSM. to become autonomous in continuous improvement management.
- Manage site OpEx engineer if needed.
Lean STRATEGIES
- Propose to the Site / Plant Manager the internal lean strategy of the Site / Plant.
- Ensure that the lean rules are taken into account in new projects during validation of each phase.
- Help Site / Plant Manager to manage continuous improvement.
- Monitor the whole lean initiative deployment.
- Manage the production productivity improvement roadmaps.
Lean GENBA ACTIVITIES
- For the 7 fields of competences listed above:
- Deploy lean standards & best practices within the Site / Plant.
- Make sure that lean standards are fully applied on the Site / Plant.
- Detect abnormalities vs. lean standards.
- React to identify root cause and come back to standard.
Lean RESULTS 
- Manage the lean budget. 
- Manage the results of the production roadmap. 
- Manage the results about the 7 fields of competences listed above.
- Implement the management of the daily results. 
- Lead the weekly & monthly results and associated TOP improvement plans. 
Group lean CONTRIBUTION 
- Develop and share specific expertise with Site / Plant lean Managers of the region. 
- Support Global/regional lean Manager for the benchmark of the local knowledge. 
Highlight the main responsibilities: 
Lean COMPETENCES 
- Organize trainings for 5S, Product respect, TPM, SMED, Hoshin, STOP SCRAP, VSM, Kanban, Continuous flow, lean industrialization in accordance to Plant / Site priorities. 
- Assess the lean standards are applied properly. 
- Permanently promote the Lean principles. 
- Organize daily meetings with internal Lean network. 
- Perform annual professional competences appraisal. 
- Validate the annual review of Lean engineer/analyst, if any. 
Lean STRATEGIES 
- Challenge the Lean design concept & the systematic lean investment approach in each phase. 
- Help the Site / Plant Manager to keep a continuous improvement mindset, behavior & policy whatever the operational situation. 
- Support for the internal physical flows the Site / Plant Manager for VSM master plan, propose the yearly workshops list. 
- Ensure Lean deployment (KPS, standards, workshops, and Global lean initiatives) in all production and Logistic departments. 
- Collaboration and communication: Effective collaboration and communication are vital for success in this role. The Opex manager works closely with plant leadership, operations teams, quality assurance, maintenance, and other stakeholders. He / she communicates progress, challenges, and results to senior management and provide regular updates on Lean or Opex initiatives. 
Lean GENBA ACTIVITIES 
- Do On Job Training to coach Lean engineers/analyst & Site / Plant members on application of Lean tools and methodologies. 
- Permanently help production Managers to detect and react to non-conformances against Lean standards. 
- Lead permanently workshops. Working closely with cross-functional teams to streamline workflows, eliminate bottlenecks, and optimize resource allocation. This involves studying production data, conducting time studies, and using 
various tools to identify opportunities for efficiency gains. 
- Lead pilot workshops for new Lean methodology for the site. 
- Ensure the management of the maintenance of Lean tools through appropriate audits. 
- Prepare & organize the weekly Site / Plant Lean committee, including agenda proposal, lead by the Site / Plant Manager, review kaizen workshops and write the minute. 
Global Lean and Region lean CONTRIBUTION 
- Accelerate Plant / Site progress through production & Supply Chain best practices sharing and deployment of best practices from outside the Site / Plant. 
Lean RESULTS 
- Prepare the Site / Plant budget concerning Lean targets. 
- Support Lean engineers/technician/analyst competence development and workshop pilots on results achievement and associated action plan. 
- Manage the building of the tools to monitor the results daily.
- Ensure a lean reporting, KOS metrics correct. 
- Quarterly lean mission report, share with site management team kaizen workshop status and saving achievements. (Last quarter completed workshop, next quarter planned workshop, year to day saving summary, etc.
- Change management and establish continuous improvement culture agent for the plant.

 

Preferred Areas of Education, Certifications, and Skills: 
5 years with demonstrated success in manufacturing and /or supply chain experience plus lean training. Knowledge and practice experience of the following tools: 
1. Strong communication, teaching and coaching skills. 
2. 5S & Zoning, visual management. 
3. Standard work and cycle time measurement. 
4. Muda Hunting. 
5. Pull flow/ Kanban. 
6. SMED. 
7. TPM. 
8. VSM