Manager Continuous Improvement

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to support and drive all aspects of Lean transformation.
• Report to the General Manager and implement a strategy to lead change and produce deliverables aligned with attaining business objectives.
• Build and lead a highly competent team with analytic, business, and facilitation skills to challenge the organization and lead it forward; team consists of Manufacturing Engineers supporting plant operations.
• Implement and maintain World Class Lean, quality processes, and other advanced manufacturing methodologies and systems specifically for Forging, Machining, Grinding, and Thread Roll Processes.
• Increase productivity through support and leadership of people, processes and technology.
• Ensure production equipment is capable and has capacity for growth; involves integrating equipment, people, material flow systems, and information systems.
• Develop and maintain in‑process quality control systems and standards to ensure product quality.
• Drive continuous improvement in labor costs through waste reduction, production efficiency, and operations improvement.
• Develop strategies, implement and monitor processes and operating systems for the manufacture of aerospace fasteners.
• Evaluate and direct work space and shop floor utilization requirements.
• Work with vendors to determine appropriate material specifications.
• Maintain and improve all factory processes and related metrics (production efficiency, cycle times, capacity, capabilities, etc.).
• Provide leadership to technical personnel to ensure ongoing product & process improvements to meet quality, CPI and production goals.
• Provide direction to technical support as required for critical process and product issues.
• Design processes, evaluate results and drive solutions to improve processes.
• Work closely with production, quality, product engineering and support teams as required.
• Develop and support new manufacturing processes.
• Determine capital equipment needs and develop the budget process for equipment, training, software, and equipment installation projects.
• Prepare procedures, reports, and plans.
• Participate in and lead defect reduction initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required (preferably Engineering, Business or Industrial Technology).
• 7‑10 years of experience in a manufacturing operations environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in implementation of lean principles and improvements.
• Experience in demand flow principles and Six‑Sigma Methodology.
• Proven work history in an International Company and in matrix organizations.
• Strong project leadership experience with a diversity of team skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior management, teams and individuals across multiple cultures, disciplines and geographies.

Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.