Senior Consultant-Lean Systems

Central Innovation; Ku-ring-gai; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Innovation seeks a Senior Lean Manufacturing Systems Consultant to deliver manufacturing consulting, Lean transformation and systems advisory services to ANZ design, engineering and manufacturing businesses. The role combines consulting, client advisory and commercial development, with responsibility for identifying, scoping and selling consulting projects and professional services engagements.

A key component is helping clients understand operational challenges and digital

Qualifications

• Essential: Significant practical experience in manufacturing operations.
• Essential: Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and production environments.
• Essential: Demonstrated Lean / continuous improvement experience.
• Essential: Experience conducting operational assessments and process improvement projects.
• Essential: Strong understanding of manufacturing systems, software and other related products.
• Essential: Strong understanding of planning, procurement, inventory and production.
• Essential: Practical understanding of MRP/ERP systems.
• Essential: Experience working directly with manufacturing business owners and senior executives.
• Essential: Demonstrated consulting or professional services experience.
• Essential: Ability to scope and sell consulting services.
• Essential: Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct operational assessments and diagnostics to identify measurable improvements.
• Analyse end-to-end processes from sales through dispatch.
• Map current-state processes and information flows.
• Identify waste, bottlenecks and constraints.
• Conduct root cause analysis and quantify impact.
• Develop recommendations and improvement roadmaps.
• Design and deliver Lean engagements including value-stream mapping and process redesign.
• Identify and sell consulting opportunities.
• Develop relationships with senior stakeholders.

Skills

Manufacturing operations

Lean/continuous improvement

Operational assessments

Manufacturing systems

MRP/ERP

Executive engagement

Consulting sales

Tools

Manufacturing software

Job description

The Senior Lean Manufacturing Systems Consultant is a specialist responsible for delivering manufacturing consulting, Lean transformation and systems advisory services to ANZ Design, engineering and Manufacturing businesses. The role combines consulting, research, client advisory and commercial development, with responsibility for identifying, scoping and selling consulting projects and professional services engagements. A key component of the role is helping manufacturing businesses understand their operational challenges, improve their processes and establish the organisational and systems foundations required for digital transformation.

Key responsibilities

Conduct operational assessments and manufacturing diagnostics to understand how operations currently function and identify opportunities for measurable improvement

Analyse end-to-end processes from sales/order entry through planning, procurement, goods inward, warehousing, staging, scheduling, production, quality control, and dispatch

Map current-state processes, workflows, information flows, decision points, roles and functions

Identify operational waste, bottlenecks, rework, delays, duplication and constraints

Conduct root cause analysis and symptomatic analysis

Quantify the operational and commercial impact of identified problems

Develop practical recommendations and improvement roadmaps

Design and deliver Lean consulting engagements including value-stream mapping, process mapping and redesign, production flow improvement, inventory optimisation, and waste reduction

Identify, develop and sell consulting opportunities as either billable hours or outcome-based consulting projects

Develop trusted relationships with business owners, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CIOs, Operations Managers and other senior stakeholders

Assess client operational, procedural, and systems fitness and maturity to help manufacturing businesses understand whether they are ready for digital transformation

Develop digital transformation readiness or transformation roadmaps with RAID analysis

Identify potential MRP opportunities during consulting engagements and work closely with the MRP Business Development Manager and other partners

Take responsibility for delivering consulting engagements to agreed scope, timeframe and commercial objectives including project planning, client workshops, process discovery, data analysis, and benefits measurement

About you

Essential: Significant practical experience in manufacturing operations

Essential: Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and production environments

Essential: Demonstrated Lean / continuous improvement experience

Essential: Experience conducting operational assessments and process improvement projects

Essential: Strong understanding of manufacturing systems, software and other related products

Essential: Strong understanding of planning, procurement, inventory and production

Essential: Practical understanding of MRP/ERP systems

Essential: Experience working directly with manufacturing business owners and senior executives

Essential: Demonstrated consulting or professional services experience

Essential: Ability to scope and sell consulting services

Essential: Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills

Desirable: Experience across multiple manufacturing sectors

Desirable: Experience with discrete, make-to-order, configure-to-order or engineer-to-order environments

Desirable: Experience with manufacturing master data, BOMs and routings

Desirable: Experience developing business cases and ROI models

Desirable: Experience in professional services or technology consulting sales