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Senior Manager, Global BD Excellence – Factory Flow

BD

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Le Pont-de-Claix • 🇫🇷 France

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Coach factory teams, with regards to BD Excellence, with focus on external and internal benchmarking. Develop and mentor zero loss mindset across critical areas to optimize quality, delivery and cost while improving safety.
  • Develop and grow capability through components and component teams to establish the fundamentals of excellence in safety, quality, and reliability. Coach and guide sites to ensure focus of resources and time on priorities.
  • Coordinate BD Excellence components deployment. Continue to drive BD Excellence capability development through deployment of progressively advanced aspects of component methodologies. Achieve long term CI objectives through cross functional alignment of all resources toward shared goals.
  • Develop and grow BD Excellence capability to help the site deliver a multi-year cost-to-win (CtW) program. Focus on building capability that improves problem solving, increases loss awareness, and empowers teams to eliminate factory-loss in an impactful, efficient, and sustainable way.
  • Coaches associates on continuous improvement methodologies within manufacturing areas, with particular focus on Lean Workplace and Factory Flow component.
  • Support plant BD Excellence Manager, BD Excellence Engineer , Logistics Engineer and Factory Flow / Lean Workplace component Leader in the definition of the Factory Flow and Lean Workplace Roadmap , tracking KPI and realize saving in Internal Logistics and Labor Productivity framework.
  • Define the Roadmap of the Lean Workplace and Factory Flow component.
  • Facilitate and/or lead specific breakthrough Kaizen events and /or bootcamp to enable targeted performance improvement and solution realization.
  • On site coaching and assessments of the kaizen activities. Create governance to follow up the project and saving status.
  • Help site leadership teams create strategic vision, ensure alignment through cascading Key Performance Indicators (KPIs’) top down and bottom up.
  • Support Lean Flow centers-of-excellence (COEs). Help develop standards and best practices. Optimize methodologies for different manufacturing technologies. Develop and leverage best practices, drive best practice development and adoption. Ensure deploying sites establish and maintain appropriate component KPIs, maintain and promote visibility of global component impact. Support maturity assessment program across multiple business units.
  • Owns and drives the process to collaborate with the BD Excellence Business Units and other functional departments (GIE and TGS) to generate projects, solutions and best practices.
  • Proactively leads multiple teams and projects to the desired results. Prioritizes cost savings projects. Manages to savings and timeline completion.
  • Collaborate in the development and implementation of a strategic plan for continuous improvement in Factory Flow (Internal Logistic) and Lean Workplace.
  • Serves as a champion to overcome barriers by addressing issues promptly. Does not hesitate to challenge the status quo in search of opportunities that help the business provide cost effective solution to the customer.
  • Report progress on UPH, savings, etc. for BD Excellence global reporting and visibility.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other bachelor’s degree
  • Previous experience in implementing, and strong knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma business systems. Six sigma black belt certification preferred.
  • Demonstrated passion for safety, customer centricity and operational excellence
  • Minimum 7 years manufacturing experience . Preferred leadership experience in a plant
  • Excellent understanding of the interaction between operational excellence and customer service
  • Excellent and effective verbal and written communication skills with people at all levels
  • Strong track record in project or program management
  • Experience of working in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment
  • Business acumen and ability to display the linkage between projects and desired business results
  • Minimum 5-years’ experience operating a production system. Certified or recognized as a Production System practitioner.
  • BD Excellence Factory Flow and Lean Workplace Knowledge : Time study knowledge (included 3M and Golden Zone); Mizusumashi and Internal Logistic Flows ; Supermarket implementation; Call off systems knowledge; Kanban Methodology, 5S and 5T.
  • Basic Smart Automation Knowledge : Karakuris, AGV, AMR, Palletization, Automatic Warehousing systems, etc…
  • Demonstrates expertise in problem solving, as well as training and coaching others.
  • Flexible and able to travel. Expected travel up to 70%
  • Language: Fluent English mandatory, Spanish is a plus.
  • Team Player
  • Ability to influence without authority
  • Leadership and Strategic thinking
  • Working with highly matrixes organization / Organizational savvy
  • Building effective transversal team and network
  • Managing Complexity and diversity / Adaptability
  • Financial acumen
  • Ability to translate business objectives into tactical activities for the plant
  • Results Oriented
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible working hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
LeanSix SigmaKaizenProject ManagementProduction SystemTime StudyKanban5S5TSmart Automation
Soft skills
LeadershipStrategic ThinkingCommunicationTeam PlayerInfluencingAdaptabilityProblem SolvingOrganizational SavvyResults OrientedBusiness Acumen
Certifications
Bachelor's DegreeSix Sigma Black BeltProduction System Practitioner