What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Operational Excellence & Projects position at Mirion?
Description
The Manager of Operational Excellence (OPEX) will drive operational excellence activities to become best in class for safety, quality, and delivery while reducing waste and maximizing process performance within our operations and manufacturing functions. This will be accomplished by working in close collaboration with functional leaders across the organization to identify, prioritize and implement initiatives to improve productivity, quality, customer service and / or reducing costs and complexity for our operations. The Manager of OPEX will lead teams to embrace new practices, encourage all to lead with a process-thinking mindset and promote best practice sharing across facilities. These best practices will be implemented in a way that empowers employees and creates a high level of personal accountability.
Responsibilities :
- Leads process improvement initiatives through the disciplined use of measurements, accountability, analysis, and discussion of process alternatives.
- Facilitate and lead kaizen events targeting project planning, process improvements, problem solving, and continuous improvement.
- Create and implement strategies to drive efficiency and increase performance through standardization.
- Collaborates with management to provide strong leadership through strategic training, coaching, project management and effective facilitation of transformation process and events.
- Responsible for VAVE (Value Analysis, Value Engineering) development and implementation to drive efficiencies, cost reductions, and quality improvements through redesign.
- Brings expertise or identifies subject matter experts in support of multi-functional efforts in process improvement, data capture and analysis, infrastructure support, tool ownership and compliance with procedures, etc.
- Utilize strong written and verbal communication skills with a technical and business mindset to prepare project documents and ensure compliance and scheduling.
- Clearly communicate project progress through dashboards and executive summaries.
- Support the running of project team meetings, record action plans, and task owners.
- Assist in running project risk sessions and record the results in Risk Registers with appropriate follow-up and issue resolution plans.
Minimum Requirements / Qualifications :
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
ADDITIONAL SKILLS and QUALIFICATIONS
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Qualifications
Education Bachelors (preferred)
Experience 3 years of demonstrated project management skills
5 years of industry experience
required)
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
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