Manufacturing

COMPANY PROFILE:

CNH Industrial is a global capital goods company specializing in equipment and services for Agriculture and Construction. The Company operates commercially through its brand portfolio which includes Case IH, New Holland Agriculture, Steyr, CASE and New Holland Construction Equipment. More information can be found on the corporate website: www.cnhindustrial.com

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

In support of the development of the CNHI Business System, the Site Lean Leader will:

• Provide the Site Leadership Team with support developing, deploying, and building internal skills and capabilities in:
  • Ensuring the development of an “engine” of Continuous Improvement built on:
    • Utilization of Value Stream Mapping to establish a customer-focused, quantified, prioritized Roadmap of Major Projects, and Kaizen (Rapid Improvement Workshop) aligned to Strategy Deployment goals, Financial (Revenue, Profit and Cash Flow) and Operating KPI gaps
    • Rapid, effective cadence of Kaizen utilizing the appropriate Lean/Continuous Improvement toolsets (1 week, “no newspaper”, rigorously prepped and followed up – Shingijutsu style)
  • Building key Lean / Continuous Improvement Kaizen skills as needed including:
    • Value Stream Mapping – including monetization
    • Standard Work Kaizen – including Std WIP, Std Work Combination, 1 piece flow, Karakuri Development (material and tool presentation) and 5S
    • Variation Reduction Kaizen – Root Cause Problem Solving
    • Transactional Process Improvement Kaizen (Variation Reduction / Standard Work)
    • Rapid Change Over (SMED) Kaizen
    • Material Pull Systems / Kanban / Heijunka Kaizen
    • Total Productive Maintenance (Preventive, Autonomous)
    • 3P (Process, Product, Layout, Structure) Design Kaizen
    • Others…
  • Deployment of an integrated Daily-Weekly-Monthly Management/Operating System that drives incremental day-to-day performance improvement of the Key Performance Indicators (metrics) that are leading indicators of the performance of the business.
    • Establish the critical KPIs to measure at the right levels in the organization tied to Customer, Employee, Shareholder and other Key Stakeholders’ satisfaction.
    • Create customer-focused, rigorous, simple visual performance tools to drive consistent review versus targets, prioritization of problems and effective root cause problem-solving / countermeasure throughout the organization.
    • Create simple visual, easy to manage improvement ideas implementation system for employees
    • Establish Leader Standard Work at all levels in the organization that drives operating reviews, problem solving, and continuous improvement activities to the core Value Streams that are tightly aligned to customers and the value drivers that will make them and us successful.
• Create an Engaged, High-Performance Culture that aligns the mission, values and strategy of the business to the behaviors of leaders, teams and individual contributors in the organization, embracing the principles of:
  • Intense Focus on Understanding and Creating Value for Customers
  • Daily Continuous Improvement & Elimination of Waste
  • Cadence of Kaizen (rapid, sustainable process change)
  • Root Cause Problem Solving based on data and facts
  • Leadership Humility and a “Go to Gemba” (point of impact) approach to learning and problem-solving.
  • People Engagement, Teamwork, Diversity
  • Results Focus, Transparency and Accountability

Objectives / What Winning Looks Like:

• Increase capabilities of Site personnel in key Lean Business System skills and toolsets
• Support Site Leadership Team in driving accelerated rates of improvement in leading indicator KPIs aligned to our “Focus 5” key metrics:
  • Safety
  • Quality
  • Delivery
  • Profitability
  • Customer Advocacy
• Drive improved levels of employee engagement through:
  1. Kaizen Participation
  2. Focused Problem Solving as part of the Daily Management process

YOUR KEY COMPETENCES AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Undergraduate degree in Engineering or Business is preferred.

Professional & Personal:

• Proven track record of delivering results in a high-performance continuous improvement environment ideally including:
  • Complex multi-product and market business with strong preference for high priced capital equipment with complex supply chain and logistics requirements.
  • Experience using Lean/CI tools in both manufacturing and business process environment to deliver results
• Experience teaching, coaching and facilitating teams utilizing the core Lean Toolsets in a Rapid Improvement Workshop (1 week) style – Toyota Production System / Shingijutsu / Danaher type toolsets
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in industrial manufacturing business implementing the above
• Experience driving increased customer focus, understanding and value creation across a very internally focused organization
• High energy, effective communicator capable of leading across functional lines and without direct reporting authority
• Results focus and orientation. Understands and balances driving process change for sustainability while delivering on financial and operational results.
• Innovative thinker, but even more importantly, able to help other leaders and teams get “outside the box” and drive “breakthrough thinking”.
• Has the technical capability to understand and help solve complex problems

WHAT WE OFFER YOU:

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