THE COMPANY

Our client is a cabinet and stone countertop provider.

THE POSITION

Our client is seeking a Lean Leader who will demonstrate strategic and tactical thinking coupled with strong communication, project management and planning skills. The selected candidate must be self-driven, detail-oriented, comfortable with ambiguity and possess a proven track record of successfully driving and applying Lean methodologies.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coach and teach Lean principles and methodologies across the business.
• Lead, facilitate and execute Lean initiatives, eliminating waste throughout the manufacturing and business processes.
• Evaluate, develop and implement new and emerging technologies leading to business process improvements.
• Train, coach and challenge process owners in the use of Lean and other continuous improvement (CI) tools, approaches and techniques to drive improvement in safety, quality, delivery and cost.
• Facilitate and lead kaizen events and follow up with event owners to complete kaizen event action items.
• Develop and report metrics for sustainment of improvement activities.
• Collaborate with colleagues to accomplish shared goals.
• Support business process improvement and process design activities by identifying critical improvement opportunities.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field; advanced degree is desirable.
• A Lean expert with ten-plus years of practical experience from a Danaher-like environment leading projects, teams and / or initiatives with at least five years applying, facilitating, coaching and teaching Lean methodologies in a technically and operationally complex business.
• Deep knowledge of and hands-on experience training and implementing TPS-based business systems.
• Exceptional consulting skills, especially in situations requiring persuading, negotiating, resolving conflict and advising.