Operational Excellence Specialist

About the role

Good Life Begins With A Good Company. Champion Home Builders, Inc. wants YOU! We are seeking to hire an Operational Excellence Specialist to join our team in the Claysburg, PA manufacturing facility. For decades, Champion has served as a leader in the manufactured housing industry and one of the largest mobile and modular home builders in North America. Champion offers many factory-built solutions, from single-family and multi-family homes to commercial and government buildings. Our manufactured homes, modular homes, mobile homes, park models, and commercial modular buildings can be found throughout the United States and western Canada. Throughout the organization, we act with integrity and respect. We take pride in our craftsmanship and build strong relationships with our customers, suppliers, and our employees. We know that we would not be successful without our team. In return for hard work and dedication, our goal is to provide a safe, productive, and enjoyable workplace for every employee.

Responsibilities

• In conjunction with plant management, identify opportunities for plant operations improvements, including all aspects of quality, productivity, safety, inventory, turnover, etc.
• Monitor, review and communicate performance statistics and observations with management.
• Function as the local leader for implementing and coordinating operational excellence initiatives.
• Perform periodic plant assessments with plant management, identify high warranty or service quality issues, review top "problems per home" and identify corrective actions.
• Identify and share with GM and plant management, Champion "Best Practice" activities.
• Publish standards and process requirements in designated plant stations.
• Maintain and update standard work processes.
• Develop and implement quarterly and periodic operational excellence plans with GM and plant management, track and report results.
• Ensure production workforce is properly trained in process and manufacturing methods.
• Assist plant management with requests to address manufacturing productivity problems.
• Assist management in problem solving and training solutions in all departments.
• Design, develop, and implement training for operational excellence of safety performance, quality performance and productivity throughout the plant location.
• Maintain records and statistics to support training history by employee by topic.
• Work with Quality Department, Human Resources Department, and Production Supervision to assure training meets all requirements.
• Identify inefficiencies in the manufacturing process and work with plant management to improve efficiency.

Requirements

Some college or university course work; knowledge of building and construction (manufactured housing as plus).

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Skills

• Close attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Strong commitment to high performance.
• Familiar with a manufacturing environment.

Benefits

• 401k Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Hol