Operational Excellence Manager

The Company
 
A leading building products manufacturer with some of the biggest brands is looking to continue their journey towards best practice. With a partnership approach you will develop and own the strategy and provide support to a variety of key stakeholders across the business for their improvement portfolio, providing training and project management expertise.
  
The Role

• Working intimately with a blue chip organisation, developing and leading their continuous improvement program and implementing this strategy. 
• Identify improvement opportunities and then develop plans, drive, support and facilitate the execution of these projects for successful delivery.
• Develop and execute the project improvement pipeline in line with what's been identified by yourself and key stakeholders across the business.
• Coaching, developing and leading staff to establish a culture that supports all aspects of Operational Excellence. 
• Educate, coach and facilitate operational expectations, lead change initiatives through managers and supervisors, create a common continuous improvement system and deliver on all CI KPI's and the businesses internal readiness program.
• Work with all levels of the organisation to problem solve issues and develop improvement projects.
• Provide open communication across the business to update people on progress of projects and also successes and challenges to continuously improve.

Your Background

• Degree qualified in an engineering or manufacturing related field
• Prior experience in using LEAN manufacturing principles (qualifications in Lean six sigma a bonus).
• Significant experience developing and implementing a continuous improvement process / strategy across a large manufacturing environment, ideally working across tier 1 industrial process manufacturing sites.
• Extensive lean strategy development and implementation experience.
• Minimum 5 years and ideally closer to 10 years operational experience within a process manufacturing environment. 
• A strong leadership background and skillset, with an ability to coach and influence leaders and operators to deliver excellent results.
• Commercial and collaborative in their style, inclusive in making decisions.
• People and process focused with a high energy approach

   
What's On Offer?

This is an opportunity to step into a business critical role for a leading global building products manufacturer, to develop and own the strategy.  
If you would like to discuss this opportunity further please contact Maurice Tranchina at Blackbook Executive on (03) 9823 7***.