Lead Lean Manufacturing Specialist
GE Vernova
Date: 21 hours ago
City: Dammam
Contract type: Full time
Job Description Summary
Drive lean initiatives across the site including lean flow line creation, conducting action workouts (AWO’s), and leading lean culture. Work with Plant Leadership team to establish a customer-based improvement strategy, which drives safety, customer responsiveness, lead time reduction, quality improvement, and cost reductions in line with business/functional objectives.
Job Description
What you'll do:
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Drive lean initiatives across the site including lean flow line creation, conducting action workouts (AWO’s), and leading lean culture. Work with Plant Leadership team to establish a customer-based improvement strategy, which drives safety, customer responsiveness, lead time reduction, quality improvement, and cost reductions in line with business/functional objectives.
Job Description
What you'll do:
- Create the Lean vision and implement a Lean strategy to reduce inventory, lead time, and waste
- Lead and develop Lean Facilitators. Build and develop a Kaizen Promotion Officer (KPO) team and shop.
- Support early integration of Lean principles in product design & process development for New Product Introductions
- Drive measurable improvements in lead-time, customer delivery, productivity, and inventory.
- Develop value stream maps for the Organization and eliminate process waste through implementation of Lean techniques
- Establish and drive a Gemba walk methodology that drives cross functional problem solving on the shop floor
- Prepare Lean review presentations and pitch to business leaders on Lean business reviews.
- Prepare operational budgets to fund Lean annual activities and estimate productivity gains.
- Coach, train and mentor site leadership on the fundamentals and principals of Lean Manufacturing.
- Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or related technical discipline from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in manufacturing or services operations
- Lean Action Workout Experience or other hands-on experience in Lean deployment and driving changes in production shop floor through strategic projects.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English language.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in Arabic language.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
- Ability and willingness to travel 10% of the time, as required
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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