Operational Excellence Specialist
7 days ago
Deceuninck North America is seeking an Operational Excellence Specialist for its North American Headquarters. The Operational Excellence Specialist will play a critical role in driving process improvements and operational efficiencies across the organization. This position will work closely with the Extrusion Team and cross-functional departments to identify opportunities for improvement, implement best practices, and ensure sustainable results. This position reports to the Operational Excellence Manager.
Core Responsibilities:
- Lead and participate in continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, and other methodologies, developing and implementing process improvement plans that address operational pain points through structured problem-solving.
- Analyze current processes and workflows-conduct time studies, map workflows, gather and interpret data, and make recommendations to reduce inefficiencies, waste, or variation.
- Engage with operators, supervisors, and managers on the shop floor to identify process constraints and develop practical engineering solutions, driving adoption and sustainment of improvements.
- Implement and enforce standard work, visual controls, and work cell layouts that simplify operations and drive consistency across shifts, owning smaller scale projects from concept through execution.
- Contribute directly to the Perfect Line initiative by developing line-level performance routines, updating layouts, and supporting process optimization activities.
- Monitor key metrics (OEE, scrap, labor productivity), conduct root cause analysis, recommend corrective actions, and verify that changes are effective.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, and Quality to ensure alignment and long-term success of changes, and maintain documentation related to process improvements.
- Train and mentor employees on operational excellence principles and tools and stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in Operational Excellence.
- Monitor and report on the progress of improvement projects, ensuring alignment and support across departments.
- Certification in Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies (e.g., Green Belt, Black Belt).
- Proven experience in process improvement and operational excellence roles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to draw engineering conclusions from data.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal.
- Proficiency in data analysis and process mapping tools.
- Strong project management skills.
- Experience in extrusion manufacturing process preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management or a related field or equivalent experience with extrusion manufacturing process and related process improvement experience.
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