Broad responsibility and leadership for overall operation of a value stream.
Implements the Lean system and Win Strategy to ensure a safe work environment, maximize profitable growth, drive quality improvements, provide premier customer service, develop a technically qualified work force, reduce operating costs, inventories, and lead times through continuous improvements.
Oversee day-to-day activities to meet daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly expectations.
Responsibilities
Responsible for developing and managing Team Leaders and associates, Process Engineering, Quality, budgets, employment decisions and performance assessments of the Value Stream.
Responsible for all aspects of managing the Value Stream to include developing associates, ensure that team consensus is used to thoroughly evaluate decisions, ensure that decisions are rapidly implemented, budget planning, employment decisions related to associates and performance assessment of all direct reports, team leaders and associates.
Essential Functions
Ownership of Value Stream P&L's includes cost analysis and opportunities, product line margin, PPV goals and manufacturing productivity.
Responsible for POP implementation and long-term manufacturing strategies.
Operational leadership including successful Lean implementation resulting in productivity gains.
Meets with the Value Stream Leaders regularly, reflecting on problems, solutions, and challenges, thereby creating a culture of continuous improvement, and contributing towards becoming a learning organization.
Leads the Value Stream in daily operations and continuous improvements which include but are not limited to supply chain production control, establishing manufacturing priorities, coordination of activities with off -shift management and order shipments.
Emphasizes the creation of continuous product flow, utilize pull systems where flow is not currently possible, and works to level the workload.
Creates the basis for continuous improvement and employee empowerment by ensuring that standardized work/processes are followed, countermeasures implemented, and the area is compliant with safety requirements.
Instills and maintains a positive can-do team atmosphere within the Value Stream; holding regular team meetings and assigning team members tasks and coordinate support services needed outside the team.
Utilizes PDCA in conjunction with the Tracking Centers and Team Improvement Boards to ensure results.
Ensures Value Stream Leaders provide effective cross-training for the Value Stream Associates, including backups from other areas, to assure a continuous smooth running Value Stream. This training is the foundation of a culture that stops to fix problems to get quality right the first time.
Works with the other members of Division Staff to develop the future state value stream map and manages the plans to achieve it, as documented in the Site Tracking Center.
In addition, the VS Manager works with the VS Team Leaders to maintain the Team Improvement Boards (TIB). Both centers the TIB and Site Tracking Center are the minimum requirements in a visually controlled environment that ensures no problems remain hidden.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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