Lean Manager
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Job Description
James Hardie Building Products Inc. is the North American leader in fiber cement home siding and exterior design solutions. Hardie products offer long lasting beauty and endless design possibilities with trusted protection and low maintenance. The company pioneered modern fiber cement building products and continues to invest in innovation to transform the industry. James Hardie is a high-performance organization with an unwavering commitment to Zero Harm. The company proudly employs a diverse workforce of over 3000 employees across operations in North America.
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Onsite from the Reno NV plant
What Youll Do:
The Lean Manager will focus on growth and process improvement projects. Responsibilities include:
- Change Management
- Drives targeted sustainable improvement by leveraging cross-functional teamwork and change management processes
- Functions as a senior leader of the site to implement continuous improvement in targeted areas
- Assists in the development of improvement roadmaps (i.e. how to use tools and processes to drive sustainable improvement results)
- Supports focused deployment of Lean tools across the organization to assure excellence in operational execution
- Ensures successful kaizen events by installing and ensuring commitment to the kaizen process which includes 1) planning of kaizen with a dynamic funnel process 2) kaizen execution and 3) sustainment of kaizen
- Communications:
- Responsible for Plant and Network communications (written and oral)
- Elevates critical business decisions to the appropriate management teams and/or functional managers
- Relationship/People Management:
- Promotes and facilitates diagnosis of work flow impediments throughout the business and provides expert counsel on appropriate tools to eliminate them
- Collaborates with internal and external business partners for benchmarking performance and knowledge building of industry best practices to guide decisions for implementation of projects
- Develops and maintains strong relationships with functional leaders to drive success of projects and teams
- Promotes and facilitates kaizen leadership
- Influences cross-functional collaboration
- Process Management:
- Process Improvement knowledge through delivery of high quality and high impact deliverables
- Actively reviews policy and practice improvements to drive performance excellence
- Influences cross-functional systems effectiveness
- Financial acumen - budget forecast and strategic plans
- Continuous improvement of the product development process to optimize time to market
- Leadership Requirements:
- Lead a group or team of employees in the achievement of organizational goals. Guide coach direct and develop direct reports.
- Provide leadership through influence in a complex matrixed environment.
- Focuses on Voice of Customer Voice of Business personal accountability and an unyielding commitment to results.
- Foster a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. federal/country and regulatory requirements).
The position responsibilities outlined above are in no way to be construed as all encompassing. Other duties responsibilities and qualifications may be required and/or assigned as necessary.
What Youll Bring:
- Proficient in Lean including Kaizen (continuous improvement design and facilitation)
- Excellent communication skills; comfortable in front of all levels of the organization as well as external customers.
- Strong leadership negotiation and conflict management skills.
- Experience using process improvement tools.
- Capable of working independently under ambiguous and/or changing conditions.
- Demonstrated ability to function independently in a high-impact position with deadline and resource constraints.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate across disciplines and integrate all aspects of business as they impact development projects including negotiation of scope roles and responsibilities specifications timelines and resources up across and down in the organization.
Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in leading process improvement projects in manufacturing environment
- Minimum of 3-5 years of lean six sigma TPS continuous improvement experience; daily management standard work visual management 5S strategy deployment and problem solving in manufacturing environment
- Demonstrated proficiency applying Lean principles in a variety of situations
- Bachelors degree required. Degree must be from an accredited institution.
- Advanced degree (MS MBA) is desirable
What Youll Receive:
At James Hardie we recognize that our success depends on our people. Weve worked hard to build a generous and competitive benefits program that demonstrates our commitment to our employees.
Comprehensive low-cost co-pay Health Insurance; medical dental prescription and vision insurance benefits for every 30 hour full-time employee. Insurance starts on day one!
Life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
401(k) Retirementplan that will match 100% of employees saved dollars up to the first 6% of your salary
11 paid holidays per year
Paid vacation
(Paid sick leave)
Wellness Program Employee Assistance Program Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
James Hardie will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits including but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act in accordance with its plans and policies.
Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis.
Apply now and come home to Hardie!
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James Hardie Building Products Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color gender sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity/expression genetic information veterans status marital status pregnancy disability or any other basis protected by law.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
