Lean Manufacturing Lead: Drive Process Excellence

Wilsonart; Fletcher (NC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

FSAs and dependent care

Vision benefits

Legal benefits

Gym discounts

Wellness clinics

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Wilsonart is seeking a Lean Manufacturing Specialist for our Fletcher, NC facility to guide the plant in developing, executing, and sustaining lean and Americas Cost Out strategy across the product value chain including suppliers and logistics. You will report to the VP of Global Operations.

You will lead lean projects, build visual controls, and collaborate across functions to drive safety, quality, and productivity targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or a closely related field.
• 5+ years as a change agent utilizing various methodologies within a manufacturing environment.
• 5+ years Industrial/manufacturing/engineering/LEAN experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify non-value steps and develop and implement lean projects across the local plant organization.
• Work with the regional and segment lean teams to ensure implementation buy-in of the plant lean strategy.
• Conduct and facilitate Lean Action Workout sessions or similar Value Stream Mapping activities
• Develop a sense of urgency in the organization for all improvement activities.
• Build and maintain visual controls and metrics aimed at delivering performance data for decision making to management at all levels through-out the plant.
• Collaborate with support functions in implementing lean, metrics, and dashboards for all processes.
• Coordinate and engage organizations outside of SCM (eg. Quality, safety, SPS, etc) in leveraging knowledge and lessons learned from across Wilsonart.
• Always drive safety first and quality into the process.
• Partner with plant operations to teach and mentor manufacturing personnel
• Achieve specific financial targets related to productivity resulting from LEAN activities.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Six Sigma

PMP Certification

APICS Certification

Cross-functional leadership

Global matrix experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering or related field

Tools

Toyota Production System knowledge

Job description

Wilsonart is seeking a Lean Manufacturing Specialist for our Fletcher, NC facility to guide the plant in developing, executing, and sustaining lean and Americas Cost Out strategy across the product value chain including suppliers and logistics. You will report to the VP of Global Operations.

You will lead lean projects, build visual controls, and collaborate across functions to drive safety, quality, and productivity targets.