Job Description
Salary: 85-110K DOE
Seeking individuals that are expert implementers of Lean Manufacturing tools with much manufacturing experience. This manufacturing plant is in the York-Lancaster PA area.
Essential Functions of Job:
1. Lead all CI/Lean Efforts in these plants.
2. Lead kaizen events of 1-5 days long. This plant conducts many short kaizen events.
3. Implement Standard Work throughout the plant including leader standard work for production managers, supervisors, and team leads.
4. Map out each value stream and identify opportunity areas.
5. Implement a very effective Daily Lean Management System. The right candidate must be experienced at developing others and working hands-on with them every day to implement these systems within their areas of control. This includes training front line leaders on how to conduct beginning of shift meetings effectively, asking their employees for any kind of improvements (SQDCM), conducting daily gemba walks in their areas, collecting the right, meaningful data, ensuring hour to hour boards are updated along with appropriate CA's where needed.
6. Work with line leaders on identifying waste in their areas and taking needed corrective actions. Train them on the main forms of waste. Help them identify improvement projects.
7. Work with managers in the plant to identify CI opportunities. Train managers on a variety of CI tools: VSM, 5S/6S, TPM, Standard Work, One Piece Flow, Mistake Proofing, use of Kanbans, Quick Changeover/SMED, Basic Problem Solving tools, and using A3's.
8. Do audits of progress within the plant periodically and provide reports to management staff on progress within the plant.
9. Manage key capital improvement projects in the plant including Automation projects, equipment and process upgrades, etc.
Desired Experience/Education/Qualities:
1. Prefer someone with a 4-year Engineering degree; however, even an Associates degree with the appropriate hands-on work experience will be considered.
2. Work experience - prefer someone who has progressed in a few different areas in a manufacturing plant. Prefer at least 6-8 years of progressive Operations/Lean/Engineering experience.
3. Must have completed over 20 kaizen events and have working implementation experience with most of the tools listed above.
4. Must be a hands-on contributor. Company does NOT want someone who is going to sit at their desk most of the day. 75% of the candidate's day should be on the floor working with managers, supervisors, team leads, engineers, maintenance, and office personnel on improvement opportunities that impact the bottom line.
Please apply below.
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