Manager Industrial Operational Excellence

Thales

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Hengelo - Netherlands

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 18 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Location: Hengelo Netherlands

About us
With 80.000 talents working in 68 countries we are one of the biggest high-tech employers in the field of safety and the Netherlands where 2000 employees are based we are located in four cities: Huizen Delft Eindhoven and Hengelo (HQ). Together with an extensive ecosystem of knowledge partners customers and suppliers we work on radars for naval vessels cyber security solutions transportation systems communication equipment for land forces cryogenic cooling solutions and research & development for radar tech (in collaboration with TU Delft).

About the team
The Naval Industry team is responsible and accountable for the on-time production and delivery of the Thales Naval products within in cost and first-time right. To realize this the Naval Industry team is strongly and closely cooperating with the other departments (e.g. Engineering Procurement Product Segments) within Thales Naval. As Thales Naval we foster a strong growth in demand to our products and to secure this growth the Industry organization needs to increase their focus on operational excellence.

For that reason we are looking for a:

Manager Industrial Operational Excellence


About the job
As Manager operational excellence you will be responsible for the lean performance and continuous improvement within the Industry production lines. With your skills and experience you will ensure that our production lines have the operational excellence maturity needed to reach our production plan.

This position will also be one of the key-drivers to transform the Industry culture and mindset to become a safe production environment which will be competitive reliable & predictable and agile driven by close collaboration with internal and external partners to reach maximum customer satisfaction and goals.

In this position you will be part of the Industry Operations management team and report to the manager Industry Operations.

The main tasks and responsibilities are:

  • Realize and improve the operational excellence strategy
  • Lead develop and coach a team of 6 operational excellence specialists
  • Implement Lean Six Sigma and other improvement methodologies
  • Execute data analysis to make the progress and result visible
  • Develop a continuous improvement mindset within Industry
  • Build (and use) a network of stakeholders within Thales Netherlands and have close contact with the Thales Group lean performance and continuous improvement counterparts

About You:

  • Completed a Bachelor or Master;
  • Several years of experience as manager in a production environment;
  • Proven track record in continuous improvement (eg Lean Six Sigma Black Belt);
  • Pro-active accurate and solution oriented;
  • Excellent leadership - and proven coaching experience;
  • Strong communication skills;
  • Dutch and English language skills are mandatory;

Thales offers

  • An interesting job within a nice team in an international high-tech environment;
  • Room for and attention to personal development and personal initiative;
  • The opportunity to grow within the organization for instance on a technical managerial commercial or international level;
  • An open and flexible work environment where a good work-life balance is considered important;
  • A pleasant workplace in the best building in the Netherlands (Publics Choice Award 2015) with our own Starbucks corner;
  • Excellent work conditions with 40 holidays a year among other benefits.

Interested

Reach out for more information to our Talent Acquisition Partner Laurence Janssen via

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Location: Hengelo NetherlandsAbout usWith 80.000 talents working in 68 countries we are one of the biggest high-tech employers in the field of safety and the Netherlands where 2000 employees are based we are located in four cities: Huizen Delft Eindhoven and Hengelo (HQ). Together with an extensive...
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Key Skills

  • Computer Science
  • Operational Risk Management
  • Risk Management
  • Six Sigma
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Lean
  • Process Improvement
  • Pricing
  • Customer Support
  • Alteryx
  • Kaizen
  • Project Management Lifecycle

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In all critical environments - air, land, sea, space and cyberspace - decision-makers, operators, crews and members of our armed services and security forces are faced with millions of important decisions every day. It is in supporting these people that Thales in the United States ha ... View more

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