Regional Lean Leader

PERKINELMER SCIENTIFIC (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

PerkinElmer Scientific (Singapore) PTE. LTD. seeks a player-coach Lean Transformation Leader to govern a multi-site program across China, Malaysia, and Singapore.

You will own the multi-year roadmap, drive governance, and develop three site Lean Practitioners, while serving as the region’s TPS authority. Based in Singapore with regular travel to plants, you’ll lead cross-site improvement initiatives, standardize lean practices, and report savings and maturity to the VP Operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years manufacturing ops experience with 5+ years in lean leadership.
• Certified Master Black Belt, Lean Master or equivalent.
• Experience training and certifying Green Belts and Yellow Belts.
• People leadership across multi-site teams.
• Fluent business English.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year lean transformation roadmap for three plants.
• Run program governance: monthly steering reviews and quarterly reviews with executives.
• Directly manage and develop three site-based Lean Practitioners.
• Own the regional lean methodology standard: VSM, kaizen, standard work, 5S, TPM, heijunka.
• Lead complex cross-site improvement initiatives (yield, cycle-time, changeover).
• Design and deploy tiered daily management and coach leaders in its use.
• Build site capability: train and certify Green/Yellow Belts; belt development plan.
• Establish project selection process with baseline, target, owner, timeline, and benefits.
• Standardize improvements across sites (yokoten) and maintain best-practice library.
• Partner with Quality, Supply Chain, and NPI to extend lean thinking.
• Report metrics: savings, throughput, certifications, daily management maturity.

Skills

Lean transformation

People leadership

Cross-site coaching

Value stream mapping

Kaizen facilitation

TPS methods

Change management

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Job description

Player-coach leader of the lean transformation across PerkinElmer’s three manufacturing sites in China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Owns the multi-year lean roadmap, program governance, and validated results, while simultaneously serving as the region’s senior technical authority on the Toyota Production System — setting the methodology standard, coaching plant leadership, and building belt capability at every site. Leads and develops a team of three site-based Lean Practitioners. Based in Singapore with regular presence at all three plants.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the multi-year lean transformation roadmap for the three plants, aligned to annual policy deployment (hoshin kanri) and site P&L priorities.
• Run program governance: monthly steering reviews with the three Plant General Managers and quarterly reviews with the Vice President, Operations, including a finance-validated savings pipeline.
• Directly manage, coach, and develop three site-based Lean Practitioners (solid line), including project allocation, standard work for the lean team, and belt certification progression.
• Own the regional lean methodology standard: value stream mapping, kaizen, standard work, 5S and visual management, SMED, TPM fundamentals, heijunka/leveling, and tiered daily management.
• Personally lead the most complex, cross-site improvement initiatives — e.g., first-pass yield in instrument test, test cycle-time reduction, and changeover reduction in high-mix / low-volume assembly.
• Design and deploy the tiered daily management system (SQDIP boards, tiered meetings, gemba walks, leader standard work) and coach Plant General Managers and their staff in its daily use.
• Build site capability: train, coach, and certify Green Belts and Yellow Belts among plant engineers, supervisors, and line leaders; own the regional belt development plan.
• Establish and maintain the project selection and chartering process; ensure every project has a baseline, target, owner, timeline, and finance-validated benefit
• Standardize and replicate proven improvements across the three sites (yokoten); maintain the regional best-practice library.
• Partner with Quality, Supply Chain, and NPI functions to extend lean thinking beyond the shop floor.
• Report program metrics — savings, project throughput, belt certifications, and daily management maturity — monthly to the Vice President, Operations.
• Safeguard practitioner effectiveness: manage site demands through the project portfolio so embedded practitioners are developed as improvement leaders rather than absorbed into daily firefighting.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or a related technical field.
• 10+years of manufacturing operations experience, including 5+ years in a dedicated lean / continuous improvement leadership role.
• Certified Master Black Belt, Lean Master, or equivalent recognized certification, with a documented record of site-level lean transformations delivering quantified, sustained results.
• Demonstrated experience training, coaching, and certifying Green Belts and Yellow Belts.
• Direct people-leadership experience, including managing remote or multi-site direct reports.
• Hands‑on mastery of TPS methods: value stream mapping, kaizen facilitation, standard work, SMED, TPM, heijunka, and tiered daily management.
• Experience operating across multiple manufacturing sites in Asia; able to travel up to 40–50% within the region (China, Malaysia, Singapore)
• Fluent business English, written and spoken.

Preferred Characteristics:

• Experience in high-mix / low-volume electronics, analytical instruments, medical devices, or similar regulated discrete manufacturing.
• Experience facilitating hoshin kanri / policy deployment at site or regional level.
• Exposure to TWI (Job Instruction / Job Relations), the Shingo model, or Toyota-lineage sensei coaching.
• Experience leading a “model line” transformation used as the template for broader site roll out.
• Formal change management training or practical experience leading culture change in manufacturing plants.