Production Specialist

Effective Communication: Communicates clearly across plant departments, ensuring alignment and follow-through; demonstrates strong listening and influence skills to drive collaboration and results​

Ownership and Accountability: Takes responsibility for overall plant performance, driving actions to improve results​

Process Optimization: Leverages data to drive continuous improvement initiatives, optimizing processes and executing improvements through structured change management​

Critical Thinking and Decision Making: Strong problem-solving skills to quickly identify issues and implement timely effective solutions​

Time Management: Ability to prioritize tasks and be able to focus on the most important tasks​

Safety Orientation: Supports safety culture within the plant​

Collaboration and Influence: Builds a collaborative environment by effectively influencing, motivating, and working cross-functionally to achieve shared goals​

Empowering Others: Empowers team members to take ownership and drive results, leveraging data to share positive results and celebrate team accomplishments​

Strategic Vision: Defines and communicates a clear long-term direction, helping define the executable steps to help the team accomplish goals​

Must be able to prioritize multiple projects, perform complex tasks, organize and follow through consistently and work under pressure to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment​

Proven team builder and leader​

Strong written and oral communication, facilitation and presentation skills​

Ability to influence upward, across and down without formal authority​

Willing to take risks, challenge the status quo and work under ambiguous circumstances​

Intellectually, emotionally and logically capable and confident; has the intelligence and stature to quickly gain credibility and become a trusted advisor​

Provides daily Production process data to influence direction of corrective actions, standardizing the data visibility within all plant routines.​

Leads data integration into Operations Daily meetings supporting plant location.​

Serves as an active contributor to daily/weekly routines, providing real time data insight into performance.​

Collaborates with functional areas to develop and report performance metrics against targets to determine gaps in performance and recommends/executed improvement initiatives. ​

Champions use and functionality of BPLM, Infinity, and CTT and other related systems and ensures accuracy through a validation strategy that identifies all critical inputs and controls them properly to achieve optimal performance of critical processes and outputs. ​

Uses appropriate Lean, Six Sigma and data analysis tools to analyze quantitative and qualitative to provide actional information for data-driven decisions. ​

Conducts training, when appropriate, on engineering concepts and tools, including but not limited to process control and capability, root causes analysis, basic Quality and problem-solving tools. ​

Partners with plant departments to establish effective communication processes to equally disseminate critical information across all departments, shifts and crews.​

Aligns plant data visibility to standardized format for all improvement efforts (PDCA/A3), monthly Performance Reviews, and weekly tracking/action meetings. ​

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science, Supply Chain or equivalent work-related experience ​

Job related experience in process improvement or project management gained through coursework or internship; manufacturing experience (preferred).​

Computer based skills (MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word)​

Lean Six Sigma certification (preferred)​