Continuous Improvement Facilitator

3 days ago

Tanner, AL, United States HDT Global Full time
Description

Join the team that is a leader in engineering, designing and manufacturing of leading-edge military expeditionary products and rugged industrial/commercial products since 1937.

Essential Duties:

  • Develops a clear and compelling Continuous Improvement Strategy for identifying opportunities of improvement, in close cooperation with business and site leadership
  • Analyzes data, processes, and procedures for lead time, cost, waste reduction, equipment up time, quality, and productivity improvements
  • Proposes and leads Continuous Improvement projects throughout the Company to achieve expected benefits
  • Participates in and coordinates the development of CI project plans including assigning roles and responsibilities
  • Partners with business leaders, site leaders and shop floor colleagues to ensure continuous improvement initiatives are identified and completed in a timely manner
  • Provides lean/CI training for production teams
  • Leads the execution of Operational Excellence initiatives (i.e. Kanban, Material Conveyance Production flow, Super Market design and deployment, Value Stream Mapping, Takt time analysis, Problem-Solving, Standardized work, Set-up reduction, 5S, Visual Workplace, Error-Proofing, TPM, Visual Factory, Kaizen, scheduling, etc.)
  • Assists plant value stream teams in sustaining gains achieved in lean efforts

Education/Experience/Other Skills & Abilities:

  • BS/BA from accredited school preferred, or equivalent experience and training
  • Five years of experience in manufacturing (fabrication and assembly) environments, leading and participating in Continuous Improvement events involving cross functional team member
  • Experience in implementing improvements using Lean, Six Sigma, and other recognized process improvement methodologies such as Value Stream mapping, Standard Work, Mitting, Pull Systems, Mistake proofing, Kanban
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively support improvement workshops that include key stakeholders
  • Change agent with strong credibility and influence in the organization
  • Demonstrated ability to motivate others and achieve results
  • Demonstrated solid performance, leadership and experience in lean concepts and execution
  • Travel required up to 30%

This position requires access to or use of export-controlled technical data or technology controlled by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Accordingly, applicants must be U.S. Persons or must be eligible to obtain the required export authorizations
from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce. A U.S. Person is defined as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, or a person who is a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C.1324(b)(a)(3).

Disclaimer: This job description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities required for this role.

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