Sr Manager Operational Excellence Job at Kennametal (Bedford)

Job Description

With over 85 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Learn more at kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. The Sr. Operational Excellence Manager, the role is to manage the activities of plant operational excellence personnel and lead continuous improvement initiatives within the multi-sites/plants in your region. You will be responsible for implementing strategies, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance operational efficiency, streamline processes, and optimize performance on a multiple plants scale. You will collaborate with site management and cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities, establish and share best practices, and foster a culture of operational excellence. Sr. OpEX Manage role is to lead by example in Lean standards and Kaizen principle.

Job Responsibility

Manage the activities of plant operational excellence personnel and lead continuous improvement initiatives within the multi-sites/plants in your region
Implement strategies, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance operational efficiency, streamline processes, and optimize performance on a multiple plants scale
Collaborate with site management and cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities, establish and share best practices, and foster a culture of operational excellence
Lead by example in Lean standards and Kaizen principle
Develop the lean competences of sites of the region and help sites to become autonomous in continuous improvement management
Deploy Global Lean Strategies and the associated standards, methodologies, and tools in the responsible sites/plants in region
Work closely with regional manufacturing directors/Plant/Site Managers, and Plant / Site OpEX Managers to define lean priorities, action plans and approaches
Make timely diagnosis of lean methodologies and tools and practice On Job Training on his/her sites
Collaborate with site-level Opex Managers to drive Kaizen workshop execution and monitor progress
Coach Plant operation teams: Plant/Site Managers, Production Managers, Plant / Site OpEX Managers, Production Supervisors et al to deliver training sessions, workshops, and coaching to enhance Lean knowledge and skills within the region
Ensure consistency in approach, share best practices, and facilitate knowledge transfer among different locations, promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement across all sites
Participate in the definition of lean budget guidelines
Establishes performance metrics and monitors progress towards improvement goals
Able to analyze data and performance reports from each site to identify trends, areas of concern, and opportunities for improvement
Report performance updates to senior management and provide insights for decision-making
Standardization and best practice sharing: He/she promotes standardization of OpEx practices and processes across the region
Facilitates the sharing of best practices, success stories, and lessons learned among different sites
Develops and maintain a repository of tools, templates, and guidelines to support continuous improvement efforts
Change management and stakeholder engagement: Implementing Lean or OpEx initiatives at a regional/multi-plants level, requires effective change management and stakeholder engagement
Able to collaborate with site leadership, functional heads, and employees at various levels to gain buy-in, address resistance, and ensure successful adoption of Lean practices
Communicate the benefits and impact of improvement initiatives and provide guidance throughout the change process
Support crisis site with task force working group
Support the Plant/Site Managers, Production Managers and Plant / Site OpEX Managers to understand the lean strategies and apply the lean tools
Support the production supervisors to understand the importance of the respect of the standards and their improvement role
Ensure that Plant/Site OpEX Managers network is fulfilled at right level for success
Manage the Plant / Site OpEX Managers network of the region: annual professional competences appraisal, contribution & validation to recruitment, definition of training plan, validation of annual appraisal and manage detection/growing of local lean potentials
Organize network meeting and On Job Training
Organize the cross sites sharing of good practices within the product family or region
Ensure that lean rules are taken into account in new projects at right time
Validate the Sites lean deployment plan vs Global directives & instructions, and Sites Priorities, including smart factory (industrial 4.0/digital tools) development, and support their deployment
Help the Plant / Site Managers identify opportunities for SQDCIP improvement
Deploy and follow Global initiatives within his/her region
Check through a regular presence on every Site of his/her region that Sites are working on appropriate priorities
Agent of region lean culture change
Coach Plant / Site Managers: Plant, Production, OpEX, Production & Supply Chain support functions on lean processes implementation
Check regularly genba in depth the proper deployment of lean roadmaps and ensure a close follow up of progress plans
Challenge the budget, lean related financial indicators of sites in budget preparation phase
Validate, challenge & follow Direct Labor and OEE improvement actions
Ensure a regional lean reporting, KOS metrics correct
Lean mission report within 3 working days after site visit, share with site and regional management visit summary and quarterly focus alignment
Contribute to the improvement of Global lean standards & tools and external benchmarking
Participate to global lean workshops, Committees & Working group
Contribute in selected Global lean initiatives upon request
Troubleshooting and help building progress roadmaps for sites when in crisis
Critical workshop, task force team driver

Requirements

Bachelors degree required, prefer STEM or Industrial Engineering area of study
6-Sigma greenbelt or black belt is plus
At least 10 years with demonstrated success in manufacturing, quality, engineering, lean/6-sigma, and /or supply chain experience
Strong leadership, communication, teaching, and coaching skills
5S and visual controls
Standard work
OEE and time study
Muda Hunting
Pull system/ Kanban
SMED
TPM
VSM

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