Work & Education Qualifications
Engineering degree (or 5-8 years deep experience implementing Lean)
Min. 3 years in a manufacturing environment in an engineering, lean manufacturing, strategic operational role; experience in Steel industry a plus
Experience with planning and budgeting including equipment planning, facility improvements and process changes
Strong, successful experience in leading improvement projects required
Engineering, manufacturing or process background or experiences - ability to understand work flow/through-put through a facility
Experience with change management in a manufacturing or related industry
Training and/or Certification with Six Sigma, SPC, 5-S, TMC, Project Management, Facilitation or other quality/process improvement processes a plus
Technical Requirements
Strong facilitation skills - knowledge of tools & techniques of methods to engage and lead groups of people
Training skills - must be able to reach peoples potential and engage their creativity through visual, audio and kinetic learning processes
Highly proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and Lean Manufacturing Software
Desirable traits
Ability to plan and implement projects - to see the desired result and break process into steps to reach it
Experience seeing projects through full cycle - plan, do, check, act
Conflict resolution skills - knowledge of methods for turning disagreement into positive experience
Excellent persuasion abilities - able to understand resistance and how to overcome it
Organization skills and detail orientation - ability to coordinate many pieces of information, input and schedules
Conceptual thinking - seeing how the pieces interact
Business acumen - an understanding of relationships between vendors, suppliers and production through final product delivery to customer
Communication - ability to share information appropriately and positively to respective audience; ability to develop and maintain written and verbal communication program on progress.
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