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Lean Deployment Lead

United States, Wilton · Job Posted May 14, 2026
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As a Lean Deployment Lead you will be responsible to lead part of the Lean cultural transformation within Wilton Factory, with a focus on embedding Lean principles and philosophy where people are engaged to improve processes continuously to boost business impact as part of their DNA. You will support and guide teams and leaders with implementing the daily management system, coach them in developing problem solving techniques and Lean leaders behavior. Together with line management for the part of the factory you support, you will be the trusted coach and you will help them build the internal capabilities to improve processes and results by cross functional teams on a daily basis. You act as a role model for the lean way of working and respectfully challenge the status quo. You will guide the management team though and take ownership for the “FLOW” deployment playbook, a proven transformation approach across multiple industries.

Job Responsibility

  • Set and agree to deployment goals
  • Co-design the deployment plan
  • Co-drive the deployment plan
  • Lead without authority
  • Challenge the change curve
  • Define success criteria, roles and responsibilities
  • Challenge progress regularly with your stakeholders
  • Coach and develop the leadership team
  • Be role model in adapting Lean principles and coach on Lean behavior
  • Support business impact initiatives (e.g. A3’s, 4C’s, Breakthrough Initiatives, etc.)
  • Share and inform the team about deployment progress, bottle-necks and help requests
  • Support your colleagues pro-actively in the deployment or building each other’s expertise
  • Pull in your colleagues from Lean or other functions to help drive the transformation and assure their involvement
  • Contribute to improvements to the ASML Lean standards
  • Challenge your colleagues adapting the Lean principles in our own team
  • Improve our daily operations and participates in strategic steps
  • Be a partner towards the business in driving for Lean improvements

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related discipline
  • 5+ years of experience in Manufacturing, Engineering or Supply Chain environment, preferably with line management experience (e.g. team lead, group lead, etc.)
  • 3+ years of experience training, coaching, deploying and applying lean in Manufacturing and/or a Logistics environment in a company wide transformation
  • 3+ years of experience with Basic project management skills
  • Expert knowledge of lean transformation, process improvement and quality management tools
  • Practical application of problem-solving methodologies (e.g. Lean A3, Six Sigma tools, etc.)
  • Experience in Hoshin Kanri (Strategy Deployment) and VSM (Value Stream Mapping) would be a plus
  • Proven experience in change management

Nice to have

Experience in Hoshin Kanri (Strategy Deployment) and VSM (Value Stream Mapping) would be a plus

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