Manufacturing Excellence Program Director

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Veolia Full time

About the Role

The Manufacturing Excellence Program Leader will be responsible for championing a transformational program, driving global improvement in end-to-end manufacturing operations. This leader will deliver a comprehensive program emphasizing standardization, continuous improvement, collaboration, and workforce engagement while working closely with operations, functions, and plants.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute strategies to streamline and standardize business processes, reduce cycle times, share best practices, and ingrain Lean Six Sigma principles.
  • Optimize customer experience, safety, quality, efficiency, and operational costs while fostering a culture of continuous improvement across operations and manufacturing facilities.
  • Collaborate with Supply Chain, Engineering, EHS, Quality, IT, Finance, Commercial, Legal, and Product Line Leadership to develop and execute the Continuous Improvement strategic roadmap.
  • Engage teams, other functions, and partners to identify cross-business opportunities to leverage process improvement and manufacturing excellence, alignment, and co-creation.
  • Drive process standardization and harmonization across the globe.
  • Utilize data and analytical skills to identify and drive improvement.
  • Act as a change agent, systematically driving continuous improvement and change, setting the pace of change to grow and integrate the business while maintaining team morale and ensuring successful adoption of new processes and technologies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent time served experience.
  • Experience in the water treatment products.
  • Experience in Supply Chain or related fields.
  • SAP Experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and influence a global team within a large, complex, and matrixed organization.
  • Experience working with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain Operations.
  • Experience leading and implementing technical-complex digital projects.
  • Ability to influence and collaborate with senior-level management team.
  • Ability to translate strategy into business objectives.
  • Ability to flex style to suit differing cultural norms to drive results.
  • Experience influencing cross-product and geographic teams to identify and implement a Lean Six Sigma strategy (LEAN, DMAIC, DFSS, CAP).
  • Strong business and financial acumen.
  • Knowledge of Manufacturing, Plant Operations, Supply Chain.
  • Experience driving digital changes and transformations.
  • Experience in Change Management.

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