Value Stream Manager - Morgan Advanced Materials

Value Stream Manager

 The Value Stream Role is a key leadership role in the Technical Ceramics Morgan Production System (MPS) Organizational design.  The role reports directly to the Site Lead or Value Stream Director.

Value Stream Manager own all resources, equipment & labor, of the part family/grouping assigned to the Value Stream and have overall responsibility for the Safety, Quality, Cost, & Delivery of the value stream and the resources assigned to and working in that Value Stream. 

Value Stream Manager also has full financial ownership of the Value Stream.  This includes, but is not limited to, Revenue delivery, cost control, staffing levels and efficiency improvements, and ultimately the margins and cash delivered as a result of the above.  Value Streams segregate a site and the sum of the Value Streams aggregates to the total Revenue of the Site.  In addition to the above Value Stream leadership will play a key role in P&L management, month to month forecasting and strategy development. Value Stream leadership directly manages members of the value stream for which the leader is responsible.

The above responsibilities all support Value Stream Manager’s key role, and seat, at the MPS SIOP table.  Value Stream Leadership contributes to SIOP forecasting and more importantly aligns Customer Commitments with Available, or forecasted, Capacity.  The Value Stream structure and job responsibilities are listed below as minimum guidance.

General Role Requirements

• Performs activities in a variety of cross-functional areas including production planning and scheduling, total quality management, ERP systems, manufacturing, equipment and facilities engineering, material management and process re-engineering. Able to work within a complex matrix organization reporting structure.
• Generally, Value Streams will have two or three site value streams with lower complexity or one high complexity product flow processes and up to £10 MM Value Stream Total Revenue per annum & by discretion of the Site Lead.
• Interviewing, Selecting, Developing, Coaching and Retaining staff to meet targets for safety, production, customer service, quality and overseeing all value stream metrics.
• Guiding employees to adhere to company policies and procedures including all elements of Safety, Compliance and SIOP.
• Reducing waste to make product(s) flow and reduce manufacturing cost and add value for the customer within customer demand schedule(s).

Complexity of the Assigned Value Stream

The intention of the role is to focus on value add and remove non-value add processes. The incumbent will use Morgan Production System tools to apply their learning to the role. Some of these tools will be:

EHS Safety compliance, Morgan ethics and compliance, 6S, Daily Stand Up Meetings, Production Planning, Production scheduling, Value Stream Mapping, preventative maintenance, understand customer order demand scheduling (aligned to sales inventory operation planning), process performance reviews and giving/receiving feedback.

This role will have 100% direct hours staff, equipment and production floor area(s) within their management responsibility i.e. reporting directly to them and/or Value Stream Leads reporting to them.

These duties are not an exhaustive list and the line manager may add to the list. Training plans will be developed and implemented for each VS Manager.

Requirements

• Experience using the Morgan Production System (or equivalent Lean System) training materials & academy/site on the job training
• Managing processes and priorities within the assigned value stream
• Competence in Microsoft Office Suite
• Bachelor’s Degree (Local Country equivalent)
• Proven experience in process improvement and implementation
• Advanced Experience with full application of Lean Tools (GREEN belt lean management)
• 3 + years’ experience managing Value Streams
• Advanced understanding of site Profit & Loss for the assigned value streams with proven ability to develop business cases for improvements.
• Experience managing/leading people including Value Stream Leads and indirect staff
• Proven excellent communication and influencing skills and the ability to communicate effectively from direct hour staff to the site leadership team

Morgan Advanced Materials is an EEO/AA/M/W/D/V Employer Ind-1