Senior Manager Engineering and Operational Excellence en Grande

 Job duties:

• Serve as engineering expert and technical leader for systems capabilities.
• Develop and implement strategies to drive continuous improvement across operations.
• Identify opportunities for process enhancements and efficiencies.
• Utilize engineering knowledge to employ Manufacturing Execution Systems and develop improvement projects.
• Develop an Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) methodology and implement it across all enterprise plant operations.
• Work with the Director of Operational Excellence to build and align strategy across the enterprise.
• Facilitate monthly Strategy Deployment and Operational Improvement Planning reviews.
• Serve as the subject matter expert in LEAN manufacturing practices and train, coach, and mentor Associates.
• Advocate for Lean principles and methodologies throughout the organization.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and waste reduction.
• Carry out financial analysis to validate proposals and gain stakeholder support.
• Partner with the Operations Accounting team to calculate, verify, and report cost savings.
• Use technical expertise to conduct thorough analyses to identify and address root causes of inefficiencies.
• Implement zero loss thinking strategies to minimize downtime and maximize productivity.
• Implement systems to promote Zero Loss Thinking and Analysis using tools like Minitab.
• Collaborate with broader technical group to improve service delivery and performance.
• Work with cross-functional technical leaders on improvement projects for plant operations.
• Serve as the technical lead on engineering controls for cost-saving initiatives.  
• Create cost-saving governance principles and practices aligned with enterprise cost-saving principles.
• Lead the organization in using a productivity pipeline process to track and accomplish strategic and tactical improvements.
• Provide supervision and guidance to facilitate learning, mentoring, and performance improvement.
• Coach Continuous Integration (CI) Engineers and Managers.  Work cross-functionally with other Operational Excellence Leaders.
• Using Value Stream Mapping (VSM), create an Autonomous Maintenance step 3 technical action plan to increase manufacturing system reliability.
• Champion and advance autonomous maintenance practices.
• Develop and oversee programs to increase the effectiveness and reliability of equipment and processes. 

Job Requirements:

Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Mechanical, Industrial or a related engineering field and 7 years of operational leadership and continuous improvement experience in a manufacturing environment.  Experience must include:

• Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and application.
• Zero loss analysis and application.
• Leading Continuous Improvement initiatives across multiple operations.
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) implementation.
• Strategic Planning and Reviews across enterprise.
• Operational excellence principles.
• Communication of complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

 Partial weekly work from home on a regular basis.

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