Lean Manager

Job Summary

As a member of the Production Support team within Construction Support Services, the Lean Manager plays a project-focused role responsible for guiding Lean implementation across a segment of Flintco’s project portfolio. This position supports production planning and control processes, ensures alignment with company strategic initiatives, and advises leadership on recommended improvements. This Lean Manager role is based in the Springdale, Arkansas area and requires up to 15% travel. This position reports to the Senior Lean Manager.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach project teams in Lean activities, implementation, and sustainment of Lean practices using a lead/co-facilitate/coach model.
• Key facilitation for this role includes project startup/kickoff meetings and After Action Reviews (AAR).
• Conduct regular Lean assessments, compile defined metrics, analyze trends, and advise leadership on improvement opportunities and measurable goals.
• Support development and delivery of internal and external training on Lean2.0®, Lean practices, and introductory Lean concepts.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with departments to advance Lean strategy, supporting work acquisition, execution, safety, quality, and team development.
• Partner with the Lean2.0® team to maintain standards for Lean practices, support internal Lean practitioner programs, and advance long-term Lean initiatives across Flintco.
• Partner with Flintco operations and support staff with technical support in area of expertise, including presentation, facilitation, training content development and training.
• Facilitate and manage events for the Flintco Community of Practice (FCoP).
• Follows and enforces Safety Rules and Practices. Stop work if necessary to resolve matters that affect safety, quality and/or inhibit the logical progress of work.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Special Job Dimensions

• The office provides a safe and healthy work environment, is adequately heated and cooled, is free from exposure and extreme conditions, has appropriate lighting and office furnishings, and is smoke-free and drug-free.
• While performing the duties of this position in the fabrication shop, warehouse, maintenance shop or at a project site, the employee could be regularly exposed to any number of the following, including, but not limited to: moving mechanical parts; moving machinery; high, precarious places (including, but not limited to, being raised several hundred feet in a bucket); close tight quarters; rough and sloped terrain; fumes or airborne particles; drilling and blasting activities; welding activities; toxic or caustic chemicals; the potential of falling rock; and outside weather conditions.
• The employee may be occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is generally loud.