Operational Excellence Manager

About the job

Your Job

Phillips Medisize, a Molex Company, is seeking an Operational Excellence Manager for Finland to be responsible for leading and managing the deployment of the Operational Excellence Strategy. This will include the effective implementation of operational excellence principles, systems, and tools. In this role, you will help lead the development of a culture of continuous improvement that relentlessly identifies and drives out process wastes.

Our Team

At Phillips Medisize, our goal is to create value for others. We empower every team member to hear, feel, and see the quality in every action we take. By incorporating quality into the design of products and processes and predicting potential quality problems before manufacturing and delivering the product, we can create mutual benefit. The leading task of quality control involves enforcing the use of specified processes and materials, ensuring the qualification of operators and equipment, and making a series of planned measurements to determine if quality standards are being met.

What You Will Do

  • Lead the deployment of the operational excellence strategy with a bias toward action, driving SQDC operating system performance/results and CIP cost savings

  • Lead mentor site wide team members to accomplish key objectives, site operating plans, and SQDC metrics/expectations

  • Work with the teams to continue the maturation of tiered daily management, enabling long term operational success

  • Maximize operational performance by proactively identifying areas for improvement, leading lean initiatives and projects, utilizing lean tools and techniques, analysing and reporting key metrics, communicating continuous improvement activities and training team members to accomplish the same

  • Lead and mentor the evaluation of operational metrics and trends, PDCA thinking, scientific thinking, root cause analysis, and standard work at all levels of the organization to accomplish SQDC metrics/expectations

  • Travel up to 10%

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or 4+ years’ experience in the practical application of operational excellence principles, systems and tools

  • Demonstrated experience influencing and effecting cultural change

  • Demonstrated experience leading and executing cost savings initiatives including the development of improvement pipelines and achieving cost savings goals

What Will Put You Ahead

  • Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate teams to achieve performance metrics and business objectives

  • Performance mindset with a passion to improve people, process, and tools/methodologies

  • Demonstrate excellent training and presentation skills

  • Ability to manage multiple large-scale projects and/or kaizens at the same time

  • Ability to develop and meet project schedules, along with contingency plans

Who We Are

Phillips-Medisize provides end-to-end product design and manufacturing services for the healthcare industry and health technology. We are part of the international Molex Group, and our Finnish operations can be found in Kontiolahti, next to Joensuu with over 700 employees in Finland and €100m turnover with continued growth year on year.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Apply for the position: https://koch.avature.net/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Operational-Excellence-Manager/180465