Manufacturing Excellence Manager

About the role

• This role is responsible for leading the implementation of the global Reckitt Production System, the Manufacturing Excellence Manager leads (with the support site Manager) the manufacturing excellence program.
• This role is a key member of the lead/management team working under the Head of Manufacturing and collaborates across all levels and functions of the organization to drive capability building, to co-lead with functional managers the implementation and adoption of proven systems and ways of working based on RPS pillars.

Your responsibilities

• Measures and data analysis: ensure consistency and compliance of performance measures and losses definitions with global standards, improve data collection systems efficiency and accuracy in collaboration with IT&D team and digital manufacturing. Optimize reporting visualization and consolidation to improve gap diagnosis.
• Manufacturing Operating system: Co-lead the implementation of the Global Manufacturing Operating System to manage performance and gap to target processes (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), install leading and lagging indicators.
• Enable system effectiveness and maturity increase year on year through teams coaching, gemba walks with lead team and functions, shopfloor presence, high-impact operational reviews, recognition and expansion of the right performance behaviors.
• Problem Solving: Diagnose performance gaps and trigger improvement plans across functions, train, coach and assess problem solving and gap diagnosis capabilities in all functions for sporadic and chronic losses.
• Continuous improvement program: based on RPS pillars, the program requires to develop functional capabilities (pillars) for performance improvement. Your responsibility is to be an instructor and facilitator, a hands-on change agent, an inspiring leader for excellence across the functions.
• Maintenance: strong collaboration with maintenance manager is required for enhancing PM systems, capabilities, increasing year on year operators and mechanic skills.
• Vertical Start Up: strong collaboration with Engineering and Innovation to prevent risks, improve performance and optimize work through early management of CapEx projects and new products innovation.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to reduce OEE losses, reduce waste, reduce energy consumption, reduce quality losses, increase productivity, reduce safety risks, etc.
• Productivity Project Governance: Facilitate ideation events, monitor productivity projects. Update global productivity tracker.
• To identify and deliver service improvement activity across the business through employing process improvement methodologies and the application of innovative thinking.
• To work with key business stakeholders, and multi-jurisdictional ‘LEAN champions’, to build a continuous improvement environment to support an ongoing programme of change.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• 10 years of manufacturing experience, FMCG preferred, including functional manager responsibility
• 4+ years working in operations with a Manufacturing Excellence structured program, progressively expanding the systems and reaching higher levels of adoption, maturity and therefore results.
• Experience with TPM / WCM / IWS strategy implementation
• Expertise as trainer and coach of TPM / WCM / IWS methodologies and systems
• Strong leadership, change management, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience implementing digital working systems e.g. MES, connected worker, Power BI, power
• TPM / IWS/ WCM Instructor or similar, pillar leader, program manager, experience in statistical tools
• Ambition to become manufacturing site director
• Passion for people development, shopfloor excellence and continuous improvement
• Experience of designing remediation plans to address productivity and efficiency issues, and track record of following through to ensure closure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of Partners, senior managers, and subject matter experts.
• Strong analytical, project and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into operational requirements.

The skills for success:

• TPM, WCM, IWS, Manufacturing Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, OEE Improvement, Root Cause Analysis, Problem Solving, Value Stream Mapping, Change Management, MES, Power BI, Productivity Improvement, CapEx Project Management.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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