Lean Deployment Leader - United Safety and Survivability Corporation

• Driving the disciplined and rigorous deployment of the Lean Operating Model (LOM).
• Creating and executing against the Site Lean Deployment plan and ensuring that all resources required are in place.
• Role modelling a culture that is aligned to United Safety’s value drivers and culture principles.
• Coaching the leadership team in their deployment of the Lean Excellence Model.
• Ensuring the correct allocation of resources to make the Lean deployment a success, and making problems immediately visible, allowing problem solving to take place.
• Delivering improvement in People, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cash and Cost (PSQDCC) targets, meeting customer and stakeholder commitments, driven by improvements in Lean Maturity.
• Developing Lean Expertise across the business, ensuring that business units become self-sufficient in running the Lean Operating Model, working to ensure that staff are fully certified in Lean Thinking at the level for their role.
• Complying with all legal and regulatory requirements and ensuring that staff are aware of the policies and their individual responsibilities and accountabilities.
• Collaborating with peers on all activities as required to successfully complete projects.
• Working on other special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree, in Engineering or Science Discipline in finance, accounting or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years’ relevant business experience.
• An understanding of Lean thinking and Lean leadership.
• The demonstrated ability to influence the site leadership team.
• Ability to lead, coach and mentor highly skilled and experienced team members.
• A track record of leadership and direction through effective communications, and building teams.
• Evidence of leading Business Transformation offices.
• Previous and significant experience in Lean Transformation.
• A Lean Certification from a reputable certifying body or benchmark company.
• Manufacturing supply chain experience.
• Experience with an ERP used in a manufacturing environment is desirable.
• Experience working for a private equity owned business is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and manage multiple projects including, analytical thinking, planning, prioritizing, problem solving, decision making, creativity in presenting various options and accurately carrying out assigned projects with minimal supervision.
• Eagerness and comfort in performing in a fast-paced, team environment, while responding and adapting to change favorably and quickly.
• Positive attitude along with the ability to work in a team environment with the proven ability to manage teams through honest communication, consistency, and upstanding principles.
• Proven ability to make fast data driven decisions based on the best available information and excellent problem-solving experience, adapting based on performance.
• Ability to travel will be required to deploy the United Safety and Survivability operating model across all global companies. Expect up to 50% travel in the later stages of the deployment.
• Enjoyment and track record of working on high-performing teams that thrive in a winning culture.
• Handles data with confidentiality, thinks out of the box, and works without excessive supervision while building strong internal and external relationships.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including accurate spelling, punctuation, and grammar for producing error-free letters, reports, and decision-making documents.
• Demonstrates outstanding tact and diplomacy for effective customer service, conflict management, and relationship building with internal and external contacts.
• Safety is at the forefront of your mind when working, and you gladly follow policies to promote a safe working environment at United Safety.

Founded in 1984 by entrepreneur Christian Hammarskjold, our company began in a garage with just a few products and a dream to innovate better, safer transit solutions. Since then, we’ve grown in both size and scope; introducing several new products and applications across a wide range of industries.Even as we continue to grow, our mission stays the same. We’re uniting passions, ideas, people, and solutions to protect and save lives through constant innovation.OUR VISION & MISSIONOur Vision: To build the next generation of safety and survivability technologies.Our Mission: United Safety and Survivability Corporation is committed to delivering the most innovative and reliable safety and survivability solutions our customers can trust to protect life and property.