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JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary

Key Member of the Operations Leadership Team and linked directly with the BU(s) leadership team. Site Leader directly leads manufacturing and operations to relentlessly improve through lean as our operational strategy ensuring the site performs at World Class Manufacturing levels as described by the WCM vision. Ensures linkages with all functions and Value Streams at the site. Directly linked to Company’s Vision and Strategy along with understanding the BU(s) needs (What, When) and determining how to make it happen at World Class levels.

Functional Contribution

• Designs proactive strategic initiatives across multiple areas
• Achievement of Watlow’s purpose, vision and strategy
• Aligns delivery of CI services to meet or exceed organizational needs
• Leads Cultural Transformation
• Builds functional mastery
• Experts within COEs
• Integration of all Global components
• Leads others in the use of the WBS and subsystems
• Develops strategy and builds capability and capacity for delivering Value.
• Understands the industry and the competitive environment of the organization
• Determines how new technology can be incorporated into the current environment
• Determines resource needs and budgets
• Identifies and pursues activities to reduce product, process, or project costs
• Analyzes information to identify evidence-based best practices and applies same to decision
• Builds robust relationships through trust, teamwork and a direct style of communication
• Builds a network of contacts internally and externally at all levels
• Leads strategic planning, purpose and vision and culture transformation.
• Establishes performance metrics

Delivery

• Understands the BU(s) Strategy (what, and when) needed and determined the best way to deliver the (how) to make it happen.
• Works with BUs and Operations Leadership to determine and establish TN and Lean KPI performance metrics
• Supports the growth of BUs and Watlow by ensuring operations have the capacity and capability to deliver what is needed when it is needed
• Lead operations in accordance with business unit goals and overall Watlow strategic directives.
• Coaching Forward - Create and/or foster a team environment that demonstrates genuine concern for the personal and professional development of all team members, regularly recognizing team members
• Lead the site’s WCM Site transformation
• Ensure WC level results are achieved in alignment with overall goals
• Ensure that the WBS is fully deployed by aggressively ensuring Continuous Improvement (CI)/Lean concepts, techniques and the application of lean are fully deployed in manufacturing and manufacturing’s supporting functions
• Ensure that all quality system policies and procedures are followed and improved where appropriate to ensure that all product delivered to the customer meets the requirements
• Ensure the development and deployment of a safe and healthy work environment
• Ensure effective implementation and utilization of Sales, Operations and Financial Planning (SOFP)
• Ensure the existence of a Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) System
• May participate as an active member of the Business Unit leadership team.
• Manage community relationships such as city planning, college, and university relations.
• Integrate needs across spaces, value streams, and functions towards achieving Watlow’s vision of a product leadership company
• Lead operational changes, in footprint, capability, capacity, and infrastructure improvements
• Ensure compliance with the local, state and federal regulations/laws.
• Flow down of information through Town Halls, management and team leader communications

Business Partner:

• Business Unit (BU) General Manager to ensure Strategy Deployment and True North alignment
• Internal Sensei to continue to learn and develop your Lean leadership capability
• External Sensei to continue to learn and develop your Lean leadership capability
• Channel/Customer alignment and needs

Center of Expertise (COE)

• Gold-certified or equivalent
• 6 Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt Preferred
• Lean Accounting

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Advanced degree (MS/MBA) preferred.
• Technical certification preferred
• Project management experience
• Leadership training
• 15+ years of operations leadership experience with 10+ years in lean leadership experience preferred