Continuous Improvement Expert
Job Posting for Continuous Improvement Expert at Danfoss
Do you have a keen eye for details and can you ensure quality in everything that reaches the customers? Can you continuously work on improving quality and propose continuous improvement processes that enable the delivery of world class products to the customer every time? Then you might be our Continuous Improvement Expert for Danfoss Power Solutions. You will be reporting to the Continuous Improvement Leader and will be responsible for leading and supporting Continuous Improvement in the Ames plant.
Danfoss Power Solutions is a world-class provider of mobile hydraulics serving the construction, agriculture and other off-highway vehicle markets.
Click the link to read more about the segment: http://powersolutions.danfoss.com
Enabler of enhanced services, reduced costs and improved revenues
You will act as a consultant to manufacturing and supply chain managers. Together, you will obtain tangible results in terms of optimizing quality, delivery, cost and cash flow, by ensuring an efficient value chain.
You will be responsible for
- Securing performance in the plant regarding Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost
- Developing and managing manufacturing operations to achieve Manufacturing Excellence. This will involve the appropriate application of a wide variety of business improvement tools with this DBS toolkit o maximize synergies and reduce cost through waste reduction, inventory management and improvement of flow
- Driving and improving results by leveraging lean tools, consulting skills, and change management processes
- Creating long term activity roadmaps and lean transformation projects for our factories including: Kaizen and step change projects
Your education and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or similar
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience and excellent understanding of Lean Manufacturing philosophy, tools, and methods
- Managerial experience in a manufacturing environment in a large- or medium-sized company is highly desirable
- Lean experience in a manufacturing environment is mandatory
- Prior experience working in a matrix environment highly desirable
- Strong analytical and project management skills
- Excellent communication skills and fluent in English
- Ability to connect with and coach and train people at all levels
- High level of ambition, performance orientation and a track record of driving continuous improvement in a global industrial setting
- Able to be effective in a matrix organization, including influencing stakeholder
- Coaching and developing others
- Cross functional awareness
We are Engineering Tomorrow
The world faces growing populations, booming urbanization and rapid climate change. At Danfoss, we engineer ready-to-use solutions to these challenges. We build energy-efficient solutions that reduce food loss and make cities cleaner – using digital technology to make systems smarter and more connected – and we engineer innovative new ways to save energy and transition to clean energy for the good of our climate.
Join Danfoss
Danfoss gives you unique opportunities to put your skills to good use, make an impact and shape an exciting career. We encourage employees to take charge, do extraordinary things and run the business like it was their own. Danfoss is a leading technology company where you get to work with – and learn from – expert colleagues with a wide range of professional and cultural backgrounds. Join Danfoss to be part of a world-class team of over 27,000 people in 56 countries that engineer tomorrow and build a better future.
Please watch how Danfoss is engineering tomorrow
Danfoss is an EO employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
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