Head of Operational Excellence Mason

About the role

The Head of OPEX is responsible for the local establishment and further development as well as implementation of an integrated value stream-based organization taking into account the defined lean principles and the existing production system.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for enabling the organization to achieve cost and cash savings at plant level
• Responsible for the career path of the local OPEX Orga in cooperation with HR
• Responsible for the qualification within the organization for OPEX in cooperation with HR (training)
• Responsible for the development of a local, integrated OPEX KPI system (monitoring)
• Responsible for the development and standardization of the Festo value production system at local level (standards)
• Consulting function of plant management team in consideration of the operational excellence strategy
• Member of the plant management team
• Regular coordination with the various internal interest groups (e.g. plant management team; value stream manager, department head, etc.) with partly divergent interests
• Rarely external speeches at customers, suppliers, universities, etc. (external representation of the company)
• Responsible for the further development of the production system at plant level (human and system side)
• Development, optimization and application of methods with the focus on establishing a value stream oriented organization according to the production system
• Responsible for the development and continuous improvement of core work processes for the realization of maturity levels of plant supply chain organization (OPEX assessment)
• Establishment and implementation of framework conditions that enable and encourage the organization for cultural changes (goal: establishment of a learning organization) => Change Manager
• Enabling an agile operating organization that, for example, reacts autonomously according to the PDAC cycle and develops and implements correct solutions
• Qualification and training of the entire plant level OPEX (Source / Make / Deliver / Plan)
• Professional leadership of executives, specialists and teams at local level
• Leadership in matrix of all OPEX employees
• Disciplinary leadership of the local OPEX team
• Monitor Festo Value Production & Training Consulting (Internal & External)