Assistant Manager - Business Improvement

Purpose

This role focuses on optimizing the interconnected components of a manufacturing system (e.g. personnel work flow or ergonomics, materials logistics, production process sequence, and equipment layouts, etc.) via Lean Manufacturing tools.

Key Missions

• Establishes and sustains methods for efficient utilization of production sites and personnel via standard industry KPIs such as OEE, UPH, cycle time, yield, etc.
• Develops and implements plans for layout modifications and revisions to operating methods
• Supports operations to achieve budgeted savings in transformation cost and identifies cost saving opportunities both in day-to-day business and periodic projects (output or yield improvement, hiring plans, utilities and service fe, etc.)
• Supports the rollout of key corporate competitiveness levers identified in the VCP (Value Creation Plan) during budget preparation and the program or project lifecycle
• Implements lean physical flows on the shop floor to ease production management and lean information flows to increase the site service level
• Adds value to operations through continuous improvement initiatives using various Lean Six-Sigma methodologies and principles (e.g., 5S, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Kaizen, etc.)
• Animates the ideation process and identidies the best practices to be shared with other factories
• Leads standardize work revision and provides process documentation, training and operating instructions
• Implements and supports cultural change across the organization to embed quality into processes while developing the mindset that quality and continuous improvement are everyone's responsibility
• Utilizes tools such as maturity assessments to gauge progress
• Designs and implements relevant learning and development of people in continuous improvement tools
• Engages in upstream change management activity, ensuring that the impact of change is agreed upfront while ensuring that operational quality and efficiency are assured
• Leads projects of continuous improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, and Kaizen workshops
• Works independently with general supervision
• Reinforces existing standards and contributes to building missing ones