Continuous Improvement Manager

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Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Industrial Engineering is responsible for leading all engineering activities and establish a culture of process improvement. This position will work with their direct reports and the Operations teams to improve efficiency, maintain labor standards, and reduce costs. .
Responsibilities:
Analyze and provide solutions for cost reduction through process improvements and cost/benefit analysis.
Design and recommend department layouts and product flows
Identify operational bottlenecks and develop, analyze and present cost efficient solutions.
Serves as technical expert on specialized projects or programs; acts as advisor to management and/or customers.
Provides guidance related to effective and efficient use of assets and processes.
Develop preferred methods/Standard Operating Procedures
Establish and maintain standards using MOST and full cycle frequency studies across all operational processes. Utilizes labor data to cost justify capital expenditure and process change ROI.
Conduct ergonomic evaluations, recommending and implementing improvements to work area designs.
Has the ability to take ideas from concept to implementation and can influence decision making with all stake-holders. Possesses superior multi-tasking ability to meet concurrent project deadlines.
Ability to drive process improvements and work within a team to resolve problems.
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple and concurrent priorities.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in applicable engineering field
7+ years of experience

Additional Job Details

Management – M3
Organizational Impact
• Establishes tactical and operational plans with major impact on immediate or short-term results (e.g., less than 1 year) towards and significantly influences the achievement of results of the department and/or job family
• Develops new products, processes, standards or operational plans in support of the job family group and/or department strategy
• Responsible for revenue and/or expenditures in a specific area or for the team. Additional oversight and review provided by next level of people leadership
Communication & Influence
• Communicates with parties within and outside of own job family or department, which may include external clients or partners depending upon the family/department
• Requires ability to influence others to accept the department’s or job family group’s view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches
• May require ability to communicate with senior leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the department
Innovation & Complexity
• Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems, or products to enhance performance of department and/or job family
• Problems and issues faced are numerous and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis, and investigation to understand the problem
• Problems are difficult and moderately complex. Problems typically impact multiple teams. Problems are typically solved by drawing from deep prior experience and analysis of issues
Leadership & Talent Management
• Manages a large team typically comprising experienced professionals
• Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for area of responsibility to ensure availability of talent necessary to accomplish departmental business results
• Typically has hiring, firing, promotion, and reward authority within own area, in accordance with corporate guidelines
Knowledge & Experience
• Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams in the department
• Typically has deep-level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job family group/business unit
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional certification and 7 years of prior relevant experience

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
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