Reference #: 2725563
Description
United Safety and Survivability Corporation is committed to delivering the most innovative and reliable safety and survivability solutions our customers can trust to protect life and property. We're not just building incredible, life-saving products, we're building a culture. From the manufacturing floor to the corporate office, to employees in the field, each employee here plays an important role in who we are as a company.Summary: The Site Lean Deployment Leader is a Lean Thinker with a very high level of expertise in Business Transformation. They will play a central role in developing this site into a Lean enterprise based upon United Safety's Operating Model. They will lead, coach and influence their site's Leadership Team, ensuring rigor and fidelity to the Lean Deployment roadmap.As Site Lean Deployment Leader, you will be responsible for:
Driving the disciplined and rigorous deployment of the Lean Operating Model (LOM)
Creating and executing against the Site Lean Deployment plan and ensuring that all resources required are in place
Role modelling a culture that is aligned to United Safety's value drivers and culture principles
Coaching the leadership team in their deployment of the Lean Excellence Model
Ensuring the correct allocation of resources to make the Lean deployment a success, and making problems immediately visible, allowing problem solving to take place
Delivering improvement in People, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cash and Cost (PSQDCC) targets, meeting customer and stakeholder commitments, driven by improvements in Lean Maturity
Developing deep Lean Expertise across the business, ensuring that business units become self-sufficient in running the Lean Operating Model, working to ensure that all staff are fully certified in Lean Thinking at the appropriate level for their role
Complying with all legal and regulatory requirements and ensuring that staff are aware of the policies and their individual responsibilities and accountabilities
Collaborating with peers on all activities as required to successfully complete projects
Working on other special projects and perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
You're a great fit for this position if this describes you:
Bachelor's degree, in Engineering or Science Discipline in finance, accounting or related field
Minimum of 10 years' relevant business experience
An understanding of Lean thinking and Lean leadership
The demonstrated ability to influence the site leadership team
Ability to lead, coach and mentor highly skilled and experienced team members
A track record of leadership and direction through effective communications, and building teams
Evidence of leading Business Transformation offices
Previous and significant experience in Lean Transformation
A Lean Certification from a reputable certifying body or benchmark company
Manufacturing supply chain experience
Experience with an ERP used in a manufacturing environment is desirable
Experience working for a private equity owned business is a plus
Demonstrated ability to organize and manage multiple projects including, analytical thinking, planning, prioritizing, problem solving, decision making, creativity in presenting various options and accurately carrying out assigned projects with minimal supervision
Eagerness and comfort in performing in a fast-paced, team environment, while responding and adapting to change favorably and quickly
Positive attitude along with the ability to work in a team environment with the proven ability to manage teams through honest communication, consistency, and upstanding principles
Proven ability to make fast data driven decisions based on the best available information and excellent problem-solving experience, adapting based on performance
Ability to travel will be required to deploy the United Safety and Survivability operating model across all global companies. Expect up to 50% travel in the later stages o the deployment
Enjoyment and track record of working on high-performing teams that thrive in a winning culture
Handles data with confidentiality, thinks out of the box, and works without excessive supervision while building strong internal and external relationships
Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including accurate spelling, punctuation, and grammar for producing error-free letters, reports, and decision-making documents
Demonstrates outstanding tact and diplomacy for effective customer service, conflict management, and relationship building with internal and external contacts
Safety is at the forefront of your mind when working, and you gladly follow policies to promote a safe working environment at United SafetyHere at United Safety, we embrace the core values that make us great.
P A S S I O N to build the future together.
People Attitude Service Safety Innovation One Company Nimble
This position description is intended to guide the activities of the person in this role. It is not intended to limit the thinking and creativity of the person in this role, nor is it intended that this description represents all the work that may be required of a person in this position.United Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer