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Our Daventry site became part of the MCC family in 2015 and specializes in providing high-quality labels to the food and beverage markets.
MCC Daventry is currently recruiting for an Opex Lead to deliver the continuous improvement effort to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost. Identifies inefficiencies, drives cost-savings, and engages with employees through hands-on training and coaching. Creates a strategic lean transformation plan and drives the preparation and execution of improvement efforts throughout the facility. Utilizes a participative team approach and strong project management skills to contribute towards the company’s global multi-million dollar cost-saving initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
* Develops and maintains a lean transformation plan to deliver value, eliminate waste, and improve performance based on strategy deployment and business results.
* Collaborates with leaders to execute the Gemba walk process (Managing for Daily Improvement), utilizing and constantly improving the production floor and office areas.
* Drives all levels of leaders to implement continuous improvement and eliminate flow inhibitors.
* Leads the plant-wide cost savings program to meet and/or exceed annual targets, including identification, validation, and execution of projects.
* Establishes and maintains plant KPIs and visual factory tools in the organization’s Lean system. Serves as subject matter expert.
* Communicates and leads the change to plant/department leaders. Implements Lean CI strategy at the plant level.
* Communicates monthly productivity and CI results to management and corporate CI team.
* Develops and implements a CI roadmap to improve the flow of materials and other improvements as defined by the CI roadmap.
* Executes CI roadmap within the sites. Participates/teaches/leads the deployment of CI projects.
* Establishes standardized work and audit schedule for sustainment. Drives and improves the metrics.
* Implements CI best practices across the plants/functional areas and shares with the organization.
* Teaches problem-solving skills to all employees, promoting the use of problem-solving tools within the plants/functional areas, and becomes a subject matter expert.
* Supports the Quality Management System.
* Active leader within the company’s OPEX communities to spread improvements, share best practices, and support where required.
Education & Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or significant direct manufacturing experience using & leading continuous improvement tools, systems, and methodologies.
Experience
* Experience in driving cultural change, leading teams, and fostering a culture of operational excellence.
* Skilled in managing projects, risks, and leading teams across functions to achieve operational goals.
* Strong ability to analyze performance metrics, conduct root cause analysis, and implement data-based solutions.
* Demonstrated ability to lead change in a fast-paced environment with a constant bias for action.
* Ability to empower teams so they can independently drive improvements.
* Proficient in Lean, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement methodologies with a bias towards Lean.
* Facilitation & coaching skills.
* Ability to travel, as required, between various sites.
Diversity & Inclusion:
MCC fosters an inclusive culture that respects and embraces our teammates’ diverse backgrounds and experiences, enabling everyone to achieve their full potential here. We aspire for our company to truly reflect the diversity of our customers and the markets we serve. We are committed to equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of gender identity/expression, age, language, sexual orientation, ability, race, socioeconomic status, national origin, or other characteristics.
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