Operational Excellence Lead is required by market-leading health products manufacturer in Waterford.
The successful professional will provide detailed technical expertise on lean methodologies and cost improvement planning for manufacturing life-cycle of products to achieve seamless and lean production results.
You will join a dynamic team of professionals with various levels of expertise and work together to achieve excellence product quality.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert on operational excellence systems and their application in driving results.
- Identify and champion inititaives that promote employee engagement and continuous improvement efforts at all levels throughout the site.
- Deliver the annual site cost improvement plan and management of the site Cost Improvement Project (CIP) system to best in class industry standards building a pipeline of CIP and Cost of Quality opportunities.
- Apply the use of best practice Lean/CI tools to drive technical improvement projects focused on quality, customer service and operational cost metrics.
- Manage structured monthly reviews of project performance to ensure delivery of CIP goals, with a forward view of activity.
- Own, Develop and Manage the Site Strategic Space planning process with a 3 year forward view, to ensure that space requirements align to site strategies together with current and future customer demands. For both manufacturing and support functions.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships across the business to develop enterprise alignment and influence real change.
- Benchmark industry best practice and make recommendations for improvement.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Engineering or similar.
- Experience with execution of LEAN and/or Six Sigma process improvements and application of Lean principles and tools in a live environment.
- Project Management experience at a senior level.
- Knowledge of advanced statistical tools and experience in analyzing process performance based on data.
- Experience in managing/developing people and influencing different levels of management.
- Experience in a regulated environment.
- A real engaging passion for Business excellence.
- A proven track record of progressively responsible experience in a fast paced, high tech and high volume environment.
- Successful experience in program management and ability to manage network and matrix relations.
- Excellent communication, leadership, influencing, technical and problem solving skills.
- Strong personal accountability for project throughout its lifecycle.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Our client offers an inclusive and collaborative work environment with opportunities for career growth.
Please send your CV in confidence to emer@emtechrecruitment.ie.