Continuous Improvement/Lean Expert

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Mission: Promote Lean Culture. Improve Processes. Drive Manufacturing Excellence. Train and Coach Teams. Measure and Improve Performance.

Responsibilities:

• Create a culture of continue improvement through daily problem solving engaging people on the shop floor. Animate improvements in Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery through Kaizen events while utilizing the power of Kaizen principles,
• Lead continues improvement initiatives and implement Lean Culture in practice,
• Collaborate with all site departments to identify and lead improvements for the short-mid-long term challenges,
• Create, Deploy and Sustain Continues improvement Road Map by practicing Lean,
• Develop, and provide guidance and necessary Lean / Six Sigma / TWI  trainings to site team,
• Act as a subject matter expert for the site coaching others in the process improvement philosophy, skills, methods and techniques to increase the capability of the business to respond to problems,
• Conduct improvements related to productivity and inventory to increase business profitability,
• Broadcast project progress and promote project achievements to maintain awareness of improvement activity on the site across the network and with corporate leadership,
• Deploy mixed model production techniques to reduce manufacturing lead time and inventory,
• Coordinate all site continues improvement initiatives / projects through regular steering committee events,
• Share and pull best practices from other sites to enhance standardization across factories all over the world,
• Cooperate with corporate industrial performance improvement teams to deploy and sustain improvement initiatives,
• Coordinate Industry 4.0 initiatives at site level, including Digital Twin, 3D, Cobots, AGV, AR, VR, Machine Learning and Digitalization,

Qualifications:

• University Degree (preferably technical),
• Several years of experience in manufacturing operations,
• Be a Lean Ambassador - ability to coach and challenge mature organization,
• Lean and Six Sigma principles expert including practical Problem Solving skills,
• Experience in leading the transformation of manufacturing environments through practicing Lean,
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with influencer DNA and energy in actions
• Practical project and change management skills,
• Manufacturing Process / Industry 4.0 practical knowledge,
• English language @ communicational level,

What we offer:

• A culture of collaboration, mutual respect and diversity.
• Tasks and projects providing growth opportunities in a motivating work environment.
• Employment (based on employment contract) in a company with a long history in innovation and technology.
• You will work from our modern office located in Tczew (near to Gdańsk)
• Commute allowance and free parking space for employees.
• Employee referral program.
• Private medical care co-funded by the company, life insurance, social fund, canteen, charity and social events.

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