Advanced LEAN Lead at Diebold Nixdorf

Responsibilities

• Applies LEAN expertise to consult and advise on complex processes and applications worldwide
• Engages with senior leadership to identify and define business critical process improvements
• Monitors business analysis progress and status, identifying trends and resolving technical and process issues. 
• Advises management on functional progress, status, trends and issues.
• Engages with Business Operations management to contribute to strategic planning and priority setting.
• Remains current with industry, process and state-of-the-art technology.
• Leads functional continuous process improvement by recommending enhancements and applying LEAN tools/technologies.
• Provides function-wide insight and leadership.
• Develops project plans and schedules, including task assignments, resources, milestones, review points and reporting requirements.
• Broadly impacts the organization.
• Regularly trains, coaches and mentors team members.
• Execute LEAN services techniques and design
• Use Value Stream Mapping to determine and record business processes and improvement areas
• Develop principal work standards and line balancing for productivity
• Identify services cost reductions and provide return of investment (ROI) justifications for change. 
• Optimize workflow and cell designs and introduce cost-effective automation for productivity and safety advantages
• Track and execute cost reduction for process improvements
• Plan, execute and manage LEAN projects to completion
• Communicate LEAN philosophy, vision, and expectations to the organization
• Develop and sustain employee LEAN training and development on LEAN concepts.
• Develop measurement systems supporting LEAN philosophy
• Engage employees in LEAN initiatives including but not limited to Value Stream Mapping, 6S Organization, and Kaizen cost reductions 
• Develop and implement project plans to achieve Future State

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 – 10 years of relevant experience as LEAN practitioner or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Excellent Problem solving skills
• Ability to understand production processes and awareness about services operations
• Ability to understand and lead implementation of low level automation
• Ability to understand and follow all quality standards (ISO & customer requirements)
• Work towards increasing efficiency and safety of the services system
• Understanding of Maintenance processes and costs
• Ability to analyze complex services data and propose changes leading to higher efficiency and safety
• Must be a team player and understand motivating and leading a team without direct supervisory responsibility
• Self-motivated to implement goals with minimal supervision
• Strong communication skills including verbal, presentation, and interpersonal 
• Strong analytical, technical, analysis, and computer skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Strong mechanical aptitude and hands-on orientation
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent business English skills (written and spoken)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years industry experience in a similar role
• Direct experience of solutions similar to the DN portfolio (SW, Products, Service)