Operational Excellence Manager at ASSA ABLOY Group

Responsibilities:

• Identifying and delivering strategic operations improvement projects
• Managing a portfolio of continuous improvement projects in operations, delivering significant financial savings
• Establishing a management system and culture to drive continuous improvement and best practice across operations
• Directing and supporting the efforts of industrial engineers in the respective factories
• Providing on-going visibility of financial savings and performance improvements in operations to the regional Exco
• Customer satisfaction: Continuous improvement projects implemented with the customer in mind
• Visibility of operational performance: Performance is visible, up to date and reported appropriately
• Project outcomes: Identification and execution of improvement projects on time and to business case objectives 
• Regional Operational Excellence score: Meaningful YoY improvement required
• Financial impact: Delivery of significant savings in operational cost (Material, Labour, Distribution and production overheads)

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum: B. Sc / B. Eng. in Engineering
• Preferred: Lean Six Sigma certification / accreditation
• Min 5 years’ experience in continuous improvement role
• Project Management
• Manufacturing financials (projects, products, processes and operating budgets)
• Process optimisation and efficiency improvements
• New product implementation and product improvements
• Equipment and plant design and upgrade projects
• Lean manufacturing deployment
• Robotics and automation

Preferred:

• Electronics manufacturing industry
• Mechanical product manufacturing industry

Key Competencies & Personal Attributes:

• High energy levels
• Planning and organization skills
• Self-starter and self-motivated
• Good interpersonal skills.
• A passion for achievement of set deadlines and targets
• Quality driven
• Strong attention to detail
• Able to use own initiative in problem solving
• Strong time management skills
• Continuous improvement champion