Veritas Steel LLC Eau Claire , WI 54701
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Join America's premier steel bridge fabricator! Veritas Steel's employees have been building America's bridges with American-made steel for more than 100 years. We specialize in complex bridges and structures of all shapes and sizes, whether arches, cable-stayed, suspension, bascule, or plate girders, we build it. Veritas is committed to providing employees with opportunities for training and professional development. If being a part of Building America's Infrastructure is something that interests you, then apply now! Relocation Assistance is available.
Position Summary
Our Continuous Improvement Director is a highly regarded position within our company. It reports to our Chief Operating Officer and is relied upon to make our overall business, and especially our manufacturing plants, as efficient and effective as they can be. This role will be instrumental in developing and implementing our Continuous Improvement strategy and culture. This includes planning, directing and managing our company-wide lean activities to support the fabrication of our country's highest-quality steel bridges and structures. As such, this role will be highly integrated in our efforts to arrange, optimize, and supervise our scheduling and manufacturing processes. Our Continuous Improvement Director needs to be an analytical thinker that can easily communicate our lean vision and strategy in a way that will engage and motivate our employees, from the boardroom to the plant floor, to be a part of it. This role is key to creating and maintaining a strong culture of continuous improvement within our Veritas facilities.
Work Relationships
Reports to the Chief Operating Officer. This Director will oversee a team of CI professionals who will Work closely with all departments and managers to ensure no gaps exist in our lean practices. The Director and his team will review work processes and our technology to ensure they are perfectly aligned to root out waste. Will work closely with all Veritas facilities and organizations to drive best practices throughout the company's manufacturing footprint. This includes overseeing the development and implementation of a multi-year capital expense plan.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Creating, gaining acceptance of and implementing a fully-developed continuous improvement strategy for the business
Leading the implementation of a true continuous improvement culture
Overseeing Continuous Improvement department personnel located across the sites
Training workforce on lean and continuous improvement philosophies and tools
Developing, evaluating, improving and documenting business and manufacturing processes
Developing and implementing statistical process control techniques and procedures into manufacturing environments
Analyzing manufacturing process flows continually to improve volume, quality, cost and through put to maximize productive capacities of all manufacturing sites
Collaborating with configuration control and design engineering regarding product tooling and design to ensure effective production methods and tools
Conferring with vendors in determining product specifications and arranging equipment, parts, or material purchase
Collaborating with Production Managers to estimate staffing requirements, production times, and relative costs to provide data for operational decisions
Working closely with Production Managers to develop, coordinate, and implement technical training for employees to improve our overall business
Designing and developing manufacturing processes for enhancements, product changes, and new products, and related fixtures and tooling that are consistent with zero defect level and low product cost
Creating and maintaining accurate documentation of tool drawings, design concepts, shop orders, and concepts
Providing engineering support in production department to trouble shoot and resolve technical problems
Coordinating work with the Maintenance Supervisor to assigned technicians, and outside vendors to projects
Supporting company policies and procedures, goals and objectives
Key Competencies
Teamwork: Supports an environment that encourages teamwork, cooperation and collaboration. Works cooperatively within teams to solve problems. Works cooperatively across teams to solve problems
Interpersonal Communication: Is respectful when interacting with others. Shares information freely in all directions · Problem-solving/Decision-making:
Guides Work: Continuously improves work processes. Helps others with tools, information and assistance to do their job
Innovator: Takes initiative. Encourages risk-taking in pursuit of continuous improvement
Energy & Drive
- Thorough understanding of lean and six sigma principles and practices. Knowledge of organizational effectiveness and operations management theories and has experience implementing them to improve work.
Educational Background
Require bachelor's degree in engineering or a manufacturing-related program (supply chain, quality, etc.); prefer a master's degree in a manufacturing-related field
Require 10 or more years of experience in manufacturing
Prefer Six sigma-related certification
Veritas Steel LLC