Production Specialist

Effective Communication: Communicates clearly across plant departments ensuring alignment and follow-through; demonstrates strong listening and influence skills to drive collaboration and results

Ownership and Accountability: Takes responsibility for overall plant performance driving actions to improve results

Process Optimization: Leverages data to drive continuous improvement initiatives optimizing processes and executing improvements through structured change management

Critical Thinking and Decision Making: Strong problem-solving skills to quickly identify issues and implement timely effective solutions

Time Management: Ability to prioritize tasks and be able to focus on the most important tasks

Safety Orientation: Supports safety culture within the plant

Collaboration and Influence: Builds a collaborative environment by effectively influencing motivating and working cross-functionally to achieve shared goals

Empowering Others: Empowers team members to take ownership and drive results leveraging data to share positive results and celebrate team accomplishments

Strategic Vision: Defines and communicates a clear long-term direction helping define the executable steps to help the team accomplish goals

Must be able to prioritize multiple projects perform complex tasks organize and follow through consistently and work under pressure to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

Proven team builder and leader

Strong written and oral communication facilitation and presentation skills

Ability to influence upward across and down without formal authority

Willing to take risks challenge the status quo and work under ambiguous circumstances

Intellectually emotionally and logically capable and confident; has the intelligence and stature to quickly gain credibility and become a trusted advisor

Provides daily Production process data to influence direction of corrective actions standardizing the data visibility within all plant routines.

Leads data integration into Operations Daily meetings supporting plant location.

Serves as an active contributor to daily/weekly routines providing real time data insight into performance.

Collaborates with functional areas to develop and report performance metrics against targets to determine gaps in performance and recommends/executed improvement initiatives.

Champions use and functionality of BPLM Infinity and CTT and other related systems and ensures accuracy through a validation strategy that identifies all critical inputs and controls them properly to achieve optimal performance of critical processes and outputs.

Uses appropriate Lean Six Sigma and data analysis tools to analyze quantitative and qualitative to provide actional information for data-driven decisions.

Conducts training when appropriate on engineering concepts and tools including but not limited to process control and capability root causes analysis basic Quality and problem-solving tools.

Partners with plant departments to establish effective communication processes to equally disseminate critical information across all departments shifts and crews.

Aligns plant data visibility to standardized format for all improvement efforts (PDCA/A3) monthly Performance Reviews and weekly tracking/action meetings.

Bachelors Degree in Engineering Science Supply Chain or equivalent work-related experience

Job related experience in process improvement or project management gained through coursework or internship; manufacturing experience (preferred).

Computer based skills (MS Excel PowerPoint Word)

Lean Six Sigma certification (preferred)