Regional Lean Manager - multi-site Wayne, MI, Toronto, and Hebron, OH
Atkore
Wayne, MI
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Regional Lean Manager
Who we are:
Atkore is forging a future where our employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders, and communities are building better together – a future focused on serving the customer and powering and protecting the world.
With a global network of manufacturing and distribution facilities, Atkore is a leading provider of electrical, safety and infrastructure solutions.
Who we are looking for:
We are currently looking for a Regional Lean Manager to be supporting our Hebron, OH, Wayne, MI, and Toronto, Ontario sites. Reporting to the Director of Lean, this person will be responsible for fostering, promoting and deploying the Atkore Business System (ABS) as a change agent for continuous improvement at multiple facilities.
The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree in engineering or other related function. Experience in lean manufacturing or business system-based company is a requirement.
What you’ll do:
Join our team and align yourself with an industry leader!
Who we are:
Atkore is forging a future where our employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders, and communities are building better together – a future focused on serving the customer and powering and protecting the world.
With a global network of manufacturing and distribution facilities, Atkore is a leading provider of electrical, safety and infrastructure solutions.
Who we are looking for:
We are currently looking for a Regional Lean Manager to be supporting our Hebron, OH, Wayne, MI, and Toronto, Ontario sites. Reporting to the Director of Lean, this person will be responsible for fostering, promoting and deploying the Atkore Business System (ABS) as a change agent for continuous improvement at multiple facilities.
The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree in engineering or other related function. Experience in lean manufacturing or business system-based company is a requirement.
What you’ll do:
- Champion the Facility’s ABS Control Room to sustain the connection between Strategy Deployment, Lean Excellence, and Facility Transformation initiatives.
- Facilitate lean daily management; develop and lead the path to Gemba
- Engage with facility leadership to set specific targets to functionally and strategically achieve improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Innovation metrics.
- Develop, facilitate, and lead Value Stream Mapping (VSM) activities to identify & prioritize improvement opportunities.
- Provide development opportunities for site Lean Managers.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering (MfgE or IE preferred) or other related functional areas or work experience.
- Minimum of 7 years experience within a manufacturing operation leading lean and continuous improvement efforts
- Certified Lean Practitioner or Certified Six Sigma Black Belt strongly preferred.
- Excellent training, coaching, communication, and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes and technology within Construction, Steel Tube, or Stamping is highly preferred.
- Ability to travel, including internationally to Canada. This is a multi-facility support position. Must be open to frequent travel as business needs arise.
- Complete your Atkore Onboarding & Immersion program.
- Understand how your job will help deliver Atkore’s strategy.
- Visit the locations you support and begin building relationships with site contacts.
- Manage Key Process Indicators and Targets To Improve (TTI) dashboards for Strategy Deployment Process.
- Support productivity improvement projects in the plant and other transactional waste reduction initiatives.
- Provide input and feedback to key leadership positions about process improvement opportunities specific to all parts of the organization.
- Champion, Sponsor, or Facilitate process and transactional improvement Kaizens.
- Identify, create, and sustain standard processes throughout the organization.
- Partner with all functions to define process capabilities, assess gaps and develop gap closure plans.
- Provide functional leadership with awareness, knowledge and guidance of Lean and/or Continuous Improvement principles, methodologies and tools to support achievement of ABS business objectives.
- Mentor, influence, and develop potential lean practitioner candidates through their projects driving business change.
- Conduct training of Lean and Continuous Improvement principles, methodologies and tools in both an office and manufacturing floor environments.
Join our team and align yourself with an industry leader!
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Management and Manufacturing -
Industries
Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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