Value Stream Director — Lean Manufacturing Leader

Rittal; Urbana (OH); Presencial; USD 130 000 - 190 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Competitive salary & bonus

401(k) with company match

Health & wellness benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Resumo da oferta

Rittal LLC, a global leader in industrial enclosures and IT solutions, seeks a Manufacturing Value Stream Director to provide strategic leadership for a multi-shift value stream. You will plan, manage, and balance operations to deliver safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets.

You will drive lean manufacturing, capacity expansion, and workforce engagement while collaborating with VP-Operations, sales, engineering, quality, and suppliers to meet site goals.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of manufacturing, operations, supply chain, and production experience.
• Proven track record of achieving manufacturing, operational, and financial results, with effective and timely decision-making.
• Experience leading multi-shift operations.
• Strong Lean/Six Sigma and change leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Experience in sheet metal fabrication/manufacturing and working with engineering professionals preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office and SAP preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Lead daily operations across the value stream, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets.
• Champion continuous improvement by driving product flow, implementing pull systems, and workload leveling.
• Build and sustain a culture focused on problem-solving, quality at the source, and employee empowerment.
• Deploy standardized work, implement countermeasures, and drive process discipline.
• Foster a positive, high-performing team environment grounded in accountability and engagement.
• Develop and execute tactical and strategic improvement plans aligned with long-term business objectives.
• Develop and instill quality philosophies, strategies, policies, and procedures that support the company-wide quality culture and satisfaction.
• Maintain line of balance and critical path schedule reports.
• Own effective hand-offs across all functional and process center areas.
• Execute and continuously improve daily management processes, escalating key issues to leadership and across the organization.
• Partner with functional value streams and leaders to share resources, tools, equipment, and processes to meet product and site goals.
• Support customer demand, capacity planning, and ramp initiatives.
• Identify staffing needs together with value stream management.
• Own value stream resource management, escalation, prioritization, and conflict resolution decisions.
• Identify and support continuous improvement and Kaizen activities.
• Manage customer and operational KPIs.

Conhecimentos

Lean/Six Sigma

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree

Ferramentas

SAP

Microsoft Office

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Rittal LLC, a global leader in industrial enclosures and IT solutions, seeks a Manufacturing Value Stream Director to provide strategic leadership for a multi-shift value stream. You will plan, manage, and balance operations to deliver safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets.

You will drive lean manufacturing, capacity expansion, and workforce engagement while collaborating with VP-Operations, sales, engineering, quality, and suppliers to meet site goals.