Manufacturing Excellence Specialist

Position overview:

Your key responsibilities include:

• Facilitate policy deployment process (Hoshin Kanri) to identify plant vision, mission, goals, objectives, and strategic initiatives for the next three years period together with Plant Management Team. 

• Develop project management & cost optimization governance in the plant, train and support project leaders to progress the projects by considering minimum project requirements.  

• Plan, facilitate, and execute continuous improvement activities by using Lean tools and techniques (VSM, 5S, SMED, PDCA, TPM, Problem Solving Techniques, ...) to sustain performance 

• Lead problem solving projects by training, coaching and facilitating teams to perform effective root cause analysis method 

• Examine data sets from Manufacturing Execution & Quality Systems in order to find trends and draw conclusions about the information they contain by using statistical tools. 

• Manage plant better practices program, liaise with company continuous improvement network for both benchmarking internal and external best practices and roll out in the plant 

• Prepare plant lean training program for cross-functional team members, train plant teams on Lean principles and tools, follow-up training program together with Regional CI Manager. 

What are we looking for?

• University degree education in Science, Engineering or Business 

• At least 3 years of relevant experience with a manufacturing company known for its maturity in lean management (automotive, FMCG…) 

• Good understanding of LEAN tools and system, demonstrated portfolio of leading lean project management at least 3 years 

• Good understanding of statistical process control and data analysis, Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certified  

• Able to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, constantly seeing to understand how to engage and involve different individuals 

• Pragmatic and shop floor oriented 

• Able to deliver to tight deadlines 

• Acts with humility and proactively collaborates with others to solve big, cross-functional issues 

• Always looking to challenge the ways things are done and helps others find new ideas to improve performance 

• Able to build trust between, and align, disparate groups across and beyond the organization 

• Change agent with strong credibility and influence in the organization 

• Have a “can do” attitude and be able to do what it takes to succeed 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Very good knowledge of English language 

• Very good knowledge of Czech language