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Are you an experienced professional looking to implement and create positive change within an organization?
The Operational Excellence Manager will utilize leadership, influence, operations experience, and communication abilities to identify and drive change through continuous improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives at our Chicago, IL facility. This individual will need the ability and courage to coach several levels of leadership, from senior to front line leaders, as well as shop floor operating and maintenance personnel.
This role will have high visibility with key site and corporate leadership and will be working to deliver significant financial bets to the business. It is an excellent opportunity to learn and grow with the Dart team, with a foundation built on honesty, integrity, teamwork and respect for the individual, we’ve created a workplace where people who share our values thrive. We also invest in providing an environment centered on safety, community, health and wellness.
Day-to-Day Role:
- Provide continuous improvement leadership and support to drive KPI’s for safety, quality, production, efficiency, and service.
- Act as a change agent for leading continuous improvement initiatives including development and delivery of training materials and programs.
- Facilitate regular improvement planning sessions to identify key strategic opportunities to achieve manufacturing strategic A3 goals and develop related action plans with measurable outcomes.
- Support and reinforce the effective application of the Daily Management System to validate that actions lead to desired performance improvements.
- Facilitate problem solving by leveraging/modeling continuous improvement methodologies to eliminate root causes and permanently reduce variance.
- Perform data analysis and provide written reports that make problems and opportunities visible.
- Generate and communicate implementation plans using Gantt charts and work breakdown structures and coordinate resources to staff implementation plans as necessary.
- Proactively seek and identify problems that need to be resolved and quantify the anticipated benefits of problem resolution.
- Manage and promote practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards, and serve the needs of our customers.
- Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices).
- Understand, support and follow management expectations in alignment with company values.
- May direct the work of others.
Core Skills and Qualifications:
The ideal candidate must possess all of the following:
- Bachelor's Degree in Operations, Engineering or other manufacturing related field with seven (7) years of continuous improvement experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding and demonstrated experience in the areas of Continuous Improvement, Operational Excellence, Lean principals, statistics and data analysis.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills necessary in order to persuade and influence decision making of individuals, groups, or work teams.
- Experience using Microsoft Office, including the ability to create basic reports, documents, presentations and spreadsheets in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.
- Ability to apply improvement concepts to continuous, non-discreet, manufacturing processes.
- Ability to solve practical problems in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work load, and respond to changing business demands
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Experienced in optimizing the performance of one or more of the following:
- Factory systems and line process inputs
- Information flow
- Raw materials flow, conveyance, blending, and drying systems
- Continuous process operations
- Quality systems for defect elimination
- EHS systems for a safe working environment
- Operational systems for waste elimination
- People development for engagement and ownership
- Work is split between an office environment, production facility, and/or warehouse.
- Exposure to extreme heat, loud noise, dirt, dust, odors, and fumes is probable.
- Required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) in required areas.
- Requires a valid driver’s license and favorable motor vehicle report upon hire.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or Industrial Engineering.
- Lean manufacturing experience.
- Experience with continuous improvement for multi-site or multi-buildings.
- Experience with the following methodologies and practices: FMEA, Kaizen, Lean tools, 5S, Visual Factory Aids, SMED concepts, VSM, VOC and Poke Yoke.
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