Value Stream Manager

• ◆Responsible to collaborate with staff members to make plant level decisions.
• ◆Leads all the employees assigned to the VS.
• ◆Develops strategies and budgets to achieve operational goals in the areas of safety, delivery, quality and cost.
• ◆Implement and continually monitor safe work practices in VS. Conduct required safety audits and ensure all employees follow safe work practices. Achieve/improve the plant’s safety metrics.
• ◆Meet or exceed the plant’s productivity goal (pieces/hour) and ensure that labor is flexed.
• ◆Ensure delivery targets (OE/OES/AM) are met or exceeded with adherence to plant quality, scrap, inventory and shipping cost objectives.
• ◆Ensure the implementation of policy deployment and the FM/lean manufacturing principles. Develop/apply a consistent system of KPIs and display those on VS white-board(s). Mentor/teach VS employees on the use/interpretation of KPIs. Implement 5S in the VS. Develop/implement improvement plans and assure that all employees understand and follow these plans. Regularly conduct employee communications meetings.
• ◆Ensure that new product launches follow the required Rings & Liners launch process and are completed within the required timeline and budgeted resources.
• ◆Ensure the implementation of employee training and development objectives.
• ◆Ensure the consistent implementation and application of all company policies, procedures and

for all employees within the VS.

• ✓Create an environment of safety, mutual trust, respect and motivation.

• ✓Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of manufacturing (or equivalent combination of formal education and experience) with firsthand experience in at least three (3) of the following areas: Hourly supervision, salaried supervision, quality management/engineering, manufacturing engineering, maintenance management, human relations management, financial management, labor contract negotiations, or operations management.

• ✓Financially savvy; understand the drivers of manufacturing costs; previous experience in efficiency improvements.
• ✓Demonstrated understanding and hands-on experience with the implementation of lean manufacturing principles. Exhibits a passion for business process improvements.
• ✓Experience required in OEM automotive or with a diesel power train manufacturing supplier.
• ✓Previous experience in machining is required.
• ✓Must have strong ability to use and tech problem solving techniques
• ✓Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a team. Excellent relationship building skills.
• ✓Experience in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• ✓Demonstrates ability in the areas of leadership, conflict resolution and problem solving.
• ✓Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate with all levels of management and hourly employees.
• ✓Good interpersonal skills, including tact and diplomacy, are necessary to supervise employees in a fair and consistent manner.
• ✓Must be able to counsel, guide and evaluate the work of others in a manner that motivates the achievement of company goals.
• ✓Must be able to maintain confidentiality of information.
• ✓Must have working knowledge of SPC.
• ✓Must be willing and able to travel.

listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

• ✓Must be able to lift, push, and/or pull up to 60 pounds occasionally.
• ✓On a continuous basis must be able to sit for extended periods of time.
• ✓Must be able to make occasional trips to manufacturing sites and customers by air and by automobile.
• ✓Able to be on call 24/7 for customer and manufacturing sites.
• ✓Able and willing to work around chemicals, coolants, oils, moving equipment, and electrical power.

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