Director of Continuous Improvement - Cypress HCM : Job Details

A nationwide medical device manufacturing company is hiring a Manager of Excellence at their Diagnostic Solutions in Hunt Valley, MD. This position represents a fantastic opportunity for a talented, highly motivated, and positive individual to become a proactive member of our client's global Operational Excellence (OPEX) community. This person will report directly to the Worldwide VP Integrated Supply Chain. The Manager, Excellence will be passionate about creating a culture of operational and customer excellence, implementing change, and driving Continuous Improvement (CI) across the network through the Excellence program.

This strong operational excellence and continuous improvement identity will be created through the systematic application of LEAN production and CI principles, methodologies, and associated tools, to ensure sustainable optimization of performance in the areas of quality, delivery, and cost, whilst improving safety.

Day to Day:

• Lead strategy development and deployment (SDD). Ensure strategic alignment through cascading Key Performance Indicators (KPIs') top down and bottom up. Support site leadership team in creating strategic vision of improvement goals, site master plan (deployment roadmap and maturity expectations based on priorities) and governance process across relevant Excellence components.
• Partner with plant Leadership team and Business Unit Managers / Leader to co-develop and execute the plant's implementation of the Excellence and Cost to Win plan /budget.
• Coach the plant leadership team, with regards to Excellence, with focus on external and internal benchmarking. Develop and mentor zero loss mindset across critical areas to optimize quality, delivery and cost while improving safety.
• Develop and grow capability through components and component teams to establish the fundamentals of excellence in safety, quality, and reliability.
• Coach and guide site to ensure focus of resources and time on priorities.
• Coordinate Excellence components deployment.
• Continue to drive Excellence capability development through deployment of progressively advanced aspects of component methodologies.
• Achieve long term CI objectives through cross functional alignment of all resources toward shared goals.
• Teach, coach, and demonstrate proficiency in Excellence concepts and systematic approach, including strategy development & deployment (SDD), core components, Zero Loss mindset and all related methodologies / tools.
• Lead and facilitate breakthrough Kaizen events.
• Lead the Focused Improvement component team.
• Develop and grow problem solving capability at all levels.
• Support collaboration within the site leadership team to generate, sustain, and deliver a multi-year Cost to Win (CTW) portfolio, oversee optimization of the site loss landscape.
• Coordinate activity of component teams and focused improvement project teams to eliminate loss, according to strategic goals.
• Meet or exceed operational (factory-loss) CtW (Cost to Win) goals through leading and /or supporting Focused Improvement team savings projects driven by loss awareness and maturing loss landscape.
• Develop and grow Excellence capability to help the site deliver a multi-year cost-to-win (CtW) program.
• Focus on building capability that improves problem solving, increases loss awareness, and empowers teams to eliminate factory-loss in an impactful, efficient, and sustainable way.
• In support of strategic goals, coordinate the development and implementation of factory-loss improvement objectives.
• Provide information to the site finance team to enable financial reporting.
• Create and manage CI budget.
• Immediate supervisor of Excellence Factory Engineers.
• Accountable for the achievement of key operational goals, including the operational (factory-loss) element of cost-to-win.
• Accountable for achievement of OPEX goals including EXCELLENCE capability development to achieve sustained SQDC performance improvement.
• Plays critical role in key projects, initiatives, and breakthrough events, e.g., drive OEE /OLE with purpose.
• Manages OPEX budget.
• Accountable to maintain and optimize plant loss landscape and multi-year cost-to-win project pipeline.
• Responsible for plant CtW performance

Skills Required:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or other bachelor's relevant degree.
• Minimum 7 years manufacturing experience / leadership experience in a plant
• Minimum 3-years' experience operating a production system.
• Certified or recognized as a Production System practitioner.
• Previous experience in implementing, and strong knowledge of, Lean and Six Sigma business systems.
• Six sigma black belt certification preferred.
• Excellent understanding of the interaction between operational excellence and customer service
• Excellent and effective verbal and written communication skills with people at all levels
• Strong track record in project or program management
• Experience of working in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment
• Business acumen and ability to display the linkage between projects and desired business results
• Leadership and Strategic thinking
• Working with highly matrixes organization / Organizational savvy
• Building effective transversal team and network
• Managing Complexity and diversity / Adaptability
• Financial acumen
• Ability to translate business objectives into tactical activities for the plant

Salary ranges between $120K - $220K + bonus depending on experience, level and education