Lean Manager Ancona

Lean Manager
Ancona
Marche, Ancona

For a prestigious Multinational Company, leader in Industrial-Automotive Field, we are searching for

**Lean Manufacturing Manager

**Responsabilities

- Provide the Team with support developing, deploying, and building internal skills and capabilities

- Ensuring the development of an "engine" of Continuous Improvement

- Utilization of Value Stream Mapping to establish a customer focused, quantified, prioritized Roadmap of Major Projects, and Kaizen (Rapid Improvement Workshop) aligned to Strategy Deployment goals, Financial (Revenue, Profit and Cash Flow) and Operating KPI gaps

- Rapid, effective cadence of Kaizen utilizing the appropriate Lean/Six Sigma/Continuous Improvement toolsets

- Building key Lean / 6 Sigma / Continuous Improvement Kaizen skills

- Value Stream Mapping

- Standard Work Kaizen

- Variation Reduction Kaizen - Root Cause Problem Solving; Transactional Process Improvement Kai

- Rapid Change Over (SMED) Kaizen; Material Pull Systems / Kanban / Heijunka Kaizen

- Total Productive Maintenance (Preventive, Autonomous)

- 3P (Process, Product, Layout, Structure) Design Kaizen

- Deployment of an integrated Daily-Weekly-Monthly Management/Operating System that drives incremental day to day performance improvement of the Key Performance Indicators (metrics) that are leading indicators of the financial performance of the business.

- Establish the critical KPIs to measure at the right levels in the organization tied to Customer, Employee, Shareholder and other Key Stakeholders' satisfaction.

- Create customer-focused, rigorous, simple visual performance tools to drive consistent review versus targets, prioritization of problems and effective root cause problem-solving / countermeasure throughout the organization.

- Create, simple visual, easy to manage improvement ideas implementation system for employees

- Establish Leader Standard Work at all levels in the organization that drives operating reviews, problem solving, and continuous improvement activities to the core Value Streams that are tightly aligned to customers and the value drivers that will make them and us successful.

- Create an Engaged, High-Performance Culture that aligns the mission, values and strategy of the business to the behaviors of leaders, teams and individual contributors in the organization

**Experiences & Skills

- Many years of experience in a similar role, gained in complex and international production contexts

- Knowledge of the principles, processes, tools and methodologies of the **lean system**:

- Indepth knowledge of operations activities (production, SCM, engineering, maintenance)

- Good knowledge of written and spoken English

- Excellent analytical skills; concrete and operational approach

- Ability to actively listen and involve people; aptitude for coordination and leadership skills

- Communication, negotiation and problemsolving skills

- Adaptability and ability to relate to all levels of the corporate hierarchy

- Stress management skills

- Availability to travel

- Intense Focus on Understanding and Creating Value for Customers

- Root Cause Problem Solving based on data and facts

- People Engagement, Teamwork, Diversity; results Focus, Transparency and Accountability

**Location**:province of Ancona (Italy)