Value Chain Designer

**Career Area**:
Engineering

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Role Definition
Designs and implements new process or updates to existing processes to improve end to end value chain performance. Develop a network value-stream model that depicts current state value chain network and may compare to alternate network configurations (future state).

Responsibilities
- Analyzing the inbound, value add and outbound value chains to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Developing business cases and capability studies, recommending improvements to stakeholders.
- Implementing new and enhanced processes and tools and governing changes through collaboration across multiple workstreams to ensure alignment.
- Identifying process inefficiencies and wastes of time, money, materials, and energy.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Business Process Design: Knowledge of business process design; ability to develop appropriate techniques to re-examine key processes and focus on optimizing organizational performance.
Level Working Knowledge:

- Carries out business process design tasks with some supervision and coaching.
- Uses a variety of business process design tools and techniques.
- Examines, interprets, and explains work-flow materials and documentation.
- Documents common obstacles and barriers for effective implementation.
- Analyzes a process and associated business logic and offers recommendations based on analysis.

Business Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.
Level Working Knowledge:

- Gathers data for use in the analysis of business processes.
- Illustrates problems, opportunities and methods for improving existing business processes.
- Suggests ways to reduce variation and/or waste in processes.
- Helps evaluate what factors should be addressed in the change program.
- Participates in requirements analysis for process changes.

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand,
monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level Working Knowledge:

- Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
- Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
- Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
- Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
- Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Working Knowledge:

- Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
- Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
- Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Process Mapping/Flowcharting: Knowledge of the concepts of process mapping; ability to carry out the documentation of current and proposed manufacturing processes to identify and make improvements.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Uses a wide variety of process mapping tools and techniques.
- Creates maps for processes that