Kennametal

Senior Manager – Operational Excellence

Kennametal

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Asheboro • Alabama • North Carolina • United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Manage the activities of plant operational excellence personnel and lead continuous improvement initiatives within the multi-sites/plants in your region.
  • Implement strategies, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance operational efficiency, streamline processes, and optimize performance on a multiple plants scale.
  • Collaborate with site management and cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities, establish and share best practices, and foster a culture of operational excellence.
  • Develop the lean competences of sites of the region and help sites to become autonomous in continuous improvement management.
  • Deploy Global Lean Strategies and the associated standards, methodologies, and tools in the responsible sites/plants in region.
  • Coach Plant operation teams: Plant/Site Managers, Production Managers, Plant / Site OpEX Managers, Production Supervisors et al to deliver training sessions, workshops, and coaching to enhance Lean knowledge and skills within the region.
  • Establish performance metrics and monitors progress towards improvement goals.

Requirements

  • Bachelors degree required, prefer STEM or Industrial Engineering area of study
  • 6-Sigma greenbelt or black belt is plus
  • At least 10 years with demonstrated success in manufacturing, quality, engineering, lean/6-sigma, and /or supply chain experience.
  • Knowledge and practice experience of the following tools: 1. Strong leadership, communication, teaching, and coaching skills.
  • 2. 5S and visual controls.
  • 3. Standard work 4. OEE and time study.
  • 5. Muda Hunting 6. Pull system/ Kanban.
  • 7. SMED.
  • 8. TPM.
  • 9. VSM
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Hard Skills & Tools
Lean6-SigmaOEEtime study5Svisual controlsMuda HuntingPull systemKanbanSMED
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationteachingcoaching
Certifications
Bachelors degree6-Sigma greenbelt6-Sigma black belt