What are the responsibilities and job description for the Value Stream Manager position at Alto-Shaam?
Company Description
Whether you're just beginning your career or have years of experience—you've come to the right place! Working at Alto-Shaam means you’re a part of a passionate team working together towards one goal.
Since 1955, Alto-Shaam has pioneered industry-leading commercial foodservice equipment that anticipates and responds to our customers' needs. Our solutions help foodservice businesses like Sendik’s Food Market and Saz’s Hospitality Group enhance their menus while providing a greater return on their investment.
Our world-class products are made in a world-class facility. Alto-Shaam’s headquarters and manufacturing space is dynamic, clean and safe for all.
As a family company, we also take care of our people by providing market-leading benefits:
- Earn an annual bonus on your gross income, which has averaged 15% over the past five years
- Low to NO COST premiums for full coverage healthcare with wellness participation
- 11 paid holidays and generous earned PTO
- Advancement opportunities to grow through our career ladders program
- Tuition assistance to pursue a degree or certification
- Fitness reimbursement for gym memberships, classes, or training sessions
- Biannual performance reviews with yearly merit increases
- Annual free lunch with the company president to celebrate your work anniversary
Job Description
The Value Stream Manager is the architect of the value stream, identifying value as defined from the customer's perspective and leading the effort to achieve an ever- shortening value-creating flow.
The ideal candidate for a Value Stream Manager would be able to do the following:
- Apply Lean and six sigma tools and methods within a global Order-to-Cash Value Stream environment to reduce process variation, improve quality and eliminate waste..
- Full responsibility for value stream metrics (SQDC) – meeting daily VS performance goals
- Accountable to employee performance (PMPs), cross training, employee corrective actions
- Apply Standard Work and create SOP’s for Operations and people related processes.
- Ensure that all team personnel are adequately trained, supplied, resourced and managed to accomplish strategic objectives including promotional opportunities.
- Data mining and analysis relating to all aspects for improvements regarding the Value Stream metrics.
- Seek out improvement opportunities and achieve results and process improvements.
- Responsible for the communication of daily performance using visual management and maintaining the value stream board containing KPIs/scorecard, Root Cause problem identification and accountability/corrective actions and other pertinent information
- Develops and implements integrated departmental plans to ensure business, technical and customer requirements are achieved
Qualifications
For a candidate to be successful as a Value Stream Manager they must have:
- People first approach to leadership
- Demonstrated history of training and mentoring and promoting from within.
- Minimum 5-7 years’ work experience in a LEAN manufacturing operation.
- Experience in management in a manufacturing and or operations environment
- Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering or allied disciplines preferred
- Must have the ability to direct and control assigned work force through the use of good leadership and communication.
- Attention to detail with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. Experience leading and mentoring exempt workers along with non-exempt
- Systems capable – working experience using manufacturing systems
- Work with entrepreneur qualities and ownership.
- Understanding of SOPs, Work Instructions, Six Sigma, project management, leadership, and LEAN manufacturing highly.
Additional Information
We are looking for team-members that exemplify and live our High FIVE values:
- High Quality: Are you detailed-oriented and ensure the accuracy of your work?
- Family: Do you exceed expectations by being attentive and going above and beyond?
- Improve: Are you passionate about finding solutions to streamline and enhance the way you and your peers work?
- Voice: Are you a positive person who wants to make an impact on others?
- Empower: Are you a go-getter who takes initiative and pride in your work?
If you share our values, we want you to be a part of our Alto-Shaam family!
