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 expertsAdditional 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