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Toyota Production Systems Manager

Greater Roanoke Area

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$115K/yr - $130K/yr

6+ years exp

Find Great People | FGP is seeking a Toyota Production Systems Manager for a client in the heavy machinery manufacturing industry. The role focuses on driving lean transformation and developing lean capabilities across the organization while ensuring process improvements and compliance with standard procedures.

ConsultingHuman ResourcesInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Hiring Manager

Kimberly Doppelheuer

Responsibilities

Create the lean vision and continuous improvement strategy to advance the customer experience through improved cycle time, on-time delivery, and ensure all other customer critical quality areas are at the forefront of the strategy

Be a change agent responsible for delivering performance excellence through the execution of lean initiatives and providing thoughtful coaching of the functional standard work, daily management, and problem-solving

Be comfortable coaching leaders in lean methodology and principles, Hoshin Kanri (Policy Deployment), problem solving, etc. Effective communication and demonstration are a must

Ensure compliance with standard processes and tools, support the value stream team to develop and follow their personal standard work (leaders and associates), yielding a culture of system, process, and behavior discipline to get results

Coach all plant operations through lean process and behavior changes, developing a highly effective Daily Management process focused on tools such as basic problem solving, kaizen, A3 thinking, value stream mapping, kanban, visual management, pull, creation of flow, and adherence to standard work

Teach and develop the team on quick improvement cycles. These quick developmental opportunities will build team confidence; in turn, this will give us the ability to drastically increase our velocity of change

Deliver on expectations set by the Group Lean Leader and Group VP within the lean discipline to further the priorities and interests of the business as assigned

Self-motivated to consistently drive projects and initiatives to completion without repetitive oversight

Must be willing to travel 25% of the time

Must understand and comply with all safety rules and company policies

Perform various other duties and activities as assigned by the Manager within the physical constraints of the job

Qualification

Toyota Production SystemsLean transformationChange managementProject managementCoachingMentoring

Required

A minimum of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college is required

6-10 years of experience leading teams in a lean transformation(s) where both lean leadership and change management up, across, and down through the organization were demonstrated in a manufacturing environment

Ability to discuss and demonstrate a deep faith in Toyota Production System (TPS) principles of servant leadership, connecting to the customer(s), building capability from the worker performing standard work and through the organization, and problem-solving with the customer and worker in mind

Experience implementing and developing teams to implement pull systems

Ability to foster lean development with a 'hands-on' and showing-by-doing approach

Demonstrated the ability to lead programs/projects while ensuring buy-in from key stakeholders in a matrix environment at all levels

Exhibit project management skills, experience documenting, planning, and stabilizing programs

Extensive experience leading cross-functional or geographically dispersed teams, and proven mentoring and coaching abilities, as well as the ability to motivate & inspire others

Must be willing to travel 25% of the time

Must understand and comply with all safety rules and company policies

Our client is not able to offer any current Visa or future Visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Green Card holders