Reoginal Operational Excellence Manager, EMEA

TPI Kompozit Kanat Sanayi Ticaret A.Ş.

• B.S. degree in Industrial/Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering ,
• Min. 5 years relevant manufacturing experience required,
• Min. 5 years of operations experience in a Lean Manufacturing environment and leading a lean transformation,
• Experience in a multicultural environment and multi-site experience is an asset,
• Has demonstrated the ability to articulate the desired state, purpose and value of lean and constantly able to identify opportunities for waste elimination.
• Must possess the ability to communicate effectively
• Knowledge/ Application of Lean tools,
• • 8 Wastes, 5S, Gemba walk (Managing for Daily Improvement),
  • Value stream mapping and analysis,
  • Standard work (shop floor and leader standard work),
  • SMED- Long cycles times,
  • Pull systems (Kanban signals),
  • Material Flow Plan For Every Part (PFEP), supermarkets and tugger routes,
  • Level scheduling,
  • Poke yoke (mistake proofing),
  • TPM (Total Productive Maintenance),
  • Strategy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri),
  • Shingijutsu traceability mentorship.
• No travel restrictions,
• Strong communication skills  in English (written and verbal) required.

İŞ TANIMI

• Develop and mentor the use of Hoshin Kanri tools and process,
• Develops and maintains and mentor Opex transformation plan including value stream maps to identify key opportunities to eliminate waste and improve performance based on strategy deployment and business results,
• Collaborate with Opex leader(s) to execute Gemba walk process (Managing for Daily Improvement), utilizing and constantly improving the visual management on the shop floor and in the office areas. Drive all levels of leaders to implement continuous improvement and eliminate flow inhibitors (anything that prevents us from satisfying our customers),
• Participate/lead/coordinate  Opex Activities within the location(s) including kaizen events, projects and any other activity to improve and further Opex efforts to ensure execution of transformation plan,
• Drive flow, pull and material management through the operations. Including supermarket and tugger concepts; material and information flow considerations; Plan For Every Part implementation; pull systems and flow concepts in all applicable areas based on appropriate takt-time or takt image,
• Provides lean training and coaching for site employees based on needs and requirements,
• Provides lean status reports for both internal/external communications including metric based accomplishments of the transformation plan. Estimate and report on true savings of lean efforts in areas of: Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Cash (inventory),
• Interfaces and coordinates lean activities with Global business leader(s) and corporate groups and site leaders,
• Lead Lean Assessment preparation and develop improvement plan based on assessment results. Participate as a lean mentor for other TPI facilities,
• Participate and drive the implementation of in Opex global initiatives.