Key job requirements of a successful Process Excellence Specialist:

People:

- Effectively collaborates cross-functionally assigned region and between peers

- Encourages people to expose problems and stays with them to implement true solutions

- Uses continuous coaching and dialogue to empower people to solve their own problems

- Supports organizational learning

Purpose:

- Works with teams to create and deliver value at the lowest possible total cost

- Creates flow through assigned value stream via cross-functional collaboration

- Develops a problem-solving culture where problems are made visible and fixed at the root cause

- Engages in relentless pursuit of continuous improvement (seeks perfection)

- Focuses on immediate actions and waste reduction

- Creates learning organization

Process:

- Works continuously in Gemba / the work site to understand and solve problems where they live, with the people who live with the problems every day

- Understands not to be complacent with the current process

- Practices and teaches fundamental problem solving (PDCA) to find problems, define them, fix them and keep them from coming back

- Supports and leverages process for sharing best practices

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, AND AFFILIATIONS:

- 4+ years experience with Lean and/or Six Sigma: ideally experience both working in a world-class organization and some experience building an organization in a division or start-up company

- Fluent in all things Lean: Lean Principles, Lean Leadership, Lean Tools, Kaizen and Hoshin-Kanri (Deployment Planning)

- Fluent in six sigma methodology

- Green or Brown Field Start up experience a plus (must be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, creating structure and working in an fast-paced ever changing environment

- BS degree or better (Engineering, Mathematics, applied Statistics, etc. preferred)

- MBA in operations management

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