What are the responsibilities and job description for the Excellence Manager / Production System position at VLaunchU?
Job Category: Manufacturing
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: CanaanConnecticut
Job Salary: $140000 - $150000
Job Title – Excellence Manager / Production System
Location: Canaan, Connecticut ( Relocation $ Available )
Base Salary – $140,000 – $150,000
Industry: Medical Equipment / Devices
Job Category: Manufacturing – Productivity
Required Skills:
7 years manufacturing experience / leadership experience in a plant
3 years’ experience operating a production system.
Certified or recognized as a Production System practitioner.
Demonstrated passion for safety, customer centricity and operational excellence
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other bachelor’s degree – preferred
Six sigma black belt certification – preferred.
Job Responsibilities:
Lead strategy deployment (SD). 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 and governance process across relevant Excellence components.
Partner with plant Leadership team and Business Unit Managers / Leader to co -develop and complete 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 approach 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 through deployment of progressively advanced aspects of component methodologies. Achieve long term CI objectives through cross functional alignment of all resources toward shared goals.
Loss attitude and all related methodologies / tools. Lead and facilitate breakthrough Kaizen events.
Lead the Focused Improvement component team and deliver a multi-year Cost to Win (CTW) portfolio, oversee governance processes, and optimization of the site loss landscape. Coordinate activity of all component teams and focused improvement project teams to eliminate loss, according to strategic goals. Meet or exceed CTW (Cost to Win) goals through leading and /or supporting Focused Improvement team savings projects driven by loss awareness and maturing loss lands cape. Create and manage CI budget
Salary : $140,000 - $150,000
