Main Purpose of the Job
The Factory Manufacturing Excellence Manager supports the factory leadership Team to achieve World-Class Manufacturing Excellence by leveraging Manufacturing practices to improve business results in a continuous and sustainable manner.
The Factory Manufacturing Excellence Manager consistently drives the implementation of NCE and standards across the factory leading and ensuring the alignment with NCE initiatives with the zone.
Key Outputs
Strategic plan development and management in the Factory:
- Ensures the right cascading of priorities and measures from the Market to the factory.
- Defines and embeds NCE projects and initiatives into the Factory objectives and align Factory Leadership Team towards the plan
- Establishes Factory governance to ensure that NCE implementation contributes to deliver business results.
- Drive effective factory governance (simple)
- Prioritize the improvement efforts based on loss analysis
- Owns as drives the factory capacity plan for the next 5 years with the best cost and service level.
Improvement in overall competence, Leading to empowered and autonomous and engaged people:
- Facilitates the FLT to support the factory to achieve their business goals by applying NCE Methodologies.
- Facilitates to translate the Market priorities and function priorities into the Factory OMP.
- Supports Factory competency building plan that ensures NCE is developing autonomy at all levels of the organization.
- Stewards, trains, supports, and coaches the Factory Leadership Team and Local Leadership Teams in Manufacturing competencies (e.g.GA, FI, LVS, AM) and applicable manufacturing standards.
- Develops competency of Local Leadership Teams and Factory Leadership Teams, supporting them to apply methodologies to improve and sustain results (e.g. all NCE methodologies, Value Added Activities, Workload studies, etc.).
- Supports the sustained competencies in Manufacturing Excellence for the factory
Improvement in Manufacturing Excellence results:
- Promotes and supports cross-fertilization of Manufacturing best practices, knowledge, standards, and improvements across the factories.
- Ensures an overall understanding of the different NCE methodologies (pillars) within the Factory Leadership Team, functions and how they integrate through the NCE implementation plan avoiding silo working.
- Conducts specific projects to support results improvement around priorities established by the Factory.
- Provides hands-on support to the Local Leadership Teams and Local Operating Teams to accelerate improvement of results (coach by doing with the factory).
- Ensures effectiveness of NCE implementation (business results).
- Drives pragmatic application of methodologies and tools focusing on delivering results
- Understands and ensures together with Factory Cost controller an overall competence of Costing Standards for Manufacturing.
- Links with Market Excellence manager within a Market/Category to drive NCE in manufacturing
Critical Experiences
-Factory experience (4 years +), preferable acting as Production/Maintenance Manager or Manufacturing Analyst.
-Strong Practical experience in leading and coaching NCE in manufacturing competencies.
-Successfully led and developed cross-functional teams.
-Experience of program management