Manufacturing Excellence

Role Description:

• To identify and deliver service improvement activity across the business by employing process improvement methodologies and the application of innovative thinking.
• To work with key business stakeholders, and the multi-jurisdictional 'Centre of Excellence", to build a continuous improvement environment to support an ongoing manufacturing transformation to lead and facilitate WCM practises.
• To support the delivery of better value and greater efficiency through the identification and elimination of unnecessary complexity within business processes and the identification of better ways of working.
• Assist in the development and implementation of a 'best-in-class' continuous improvement strategy.
• Take ownership of change initiatives from evolution/efficiency identification through to project delivery via internal governance and controls.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for implementing the standard world-class manufacturing framework across pan-India plants.
• To work with other team members and business services departments to devise new support
• material based on the revised processes, including training, reporting and systems enhancements.
• To actively monitor project risks to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address in advance
• To ensure the business impact and project objectives/dependencies are identified, reported on
• and managed at all times.
• To set up a program, deliver coaching and run projects across plants.
• To complete post-implementation reviews to ensure successful delivery has been achieved and to ensure that improvements can be made for future projects
• Continuous improvement of efficiency KPIs in the manufacturing sites
• Implementation of lean methods to increase efficiency, throughput and operational excellence
• To take ownership of change initiatives from evolution/efficiency identification through to project delivery via internal governance and controls
• Supporting the plant teams in benchmarking, solutions, problem-solving and continuous improvement programs
• Support the Operation in the design, development, and implementation of policy deployment within the business. Cascading KPIs and KRAs at all business levels.
• Conduct risk assessments of processes and tasks in the department
• Ensure relevant ongoing learning and development of all employees in Lean improvement tools and communication methods
• Coach and facilitate teams and individuals to identify and implement improvement opportunities
• Ability to manage a variety of cross-functional team members
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of Partners, senior managers, and subject matter experts

Additional Advantageous skill sets:

• Good honors degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• Excellent understanding of continuous improvement concepts including Six Sigma, Lean, value stream mapping
• Strong analytical, project and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into operational requirements
• Ability to set up, facilitate and lead service improvement/workshops with a range of business stakeholders (incl. Experience in process/value stream mapping)
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, including Project, Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• An End-to-End Coordinator taking accountability for ideas from inception to delivery, in an environment that requires robust metrics to confirm the success
• Experience in designing or implementing a framework of continuous improvement
• Experience in hands-on implementation of continuous improvement programs and Lean solutions