Lean Manufacturing Manager

Job Title: Lean Manufacturing Manager

Location: Onsite in Belfast, Maine

General Job Summary

The Lean Manufacturing Manager will be responsible for overseeing and advancing the Mathews Brothers continuous improvement initiatives. This includes working with production personnel to improve throughput and quality while reducing waste in a production environment. This will entail applying and teaching Lean tools and methodology to achieve the goals set by the company. This role will report directly to the Director of Engineering.

Essential Job Functions

• Oversee creation, implementation, and documenting of standard operating procedures
• Oversee creation, implementation, and documenting of quality standards
• Manage and facilitate Lean meetings in both Hermon and Belfast to accomplish company goals
• Host and/or facilitate Lean education sessions as required to accomplish company goals
• Partner with appropriate personnel to optimize product flow
• Create and manage all process flow diagrams
• Aid in creating and managing key performance indicators for quality and volume
• Optimize existing or develop a visual management tool (such as a Gemba board) for tracking performance and status at the line level of production
• Manage projects with tasked deadlines
• Take a lead role in facilitating Kaizen events
• Identify types of waste with current systems/processes and develop ways to streamline and track success
• Based on quality and throughput goals, recommend equipment needs to production management so as to achieve goals

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• Other duties as assigned

Skills/Experience/Training Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in applicable field of study
• Lean certification
• Minimum of 5 years of applicable experience in a Manufacturing environment
• Superior written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work well with a team and collaborate with others

Working Conditions

• Primary location for this role is Belfast, Maine
• Hours can be flexible with typical being roughly 7:30am to 4:30pm. Projects could occasionally require work coinciding with the second shift of production that is 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to grasp and lift
• Occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Regularly required to lift up to 25 pounds; occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 75 pounds
• Close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus required
• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and vibration
• Regularly exposed to high noise level

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to do this job. The above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required.

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled as defined under the Americans With Disabilities Act, must be able to perform the essential job functions (as listed) either unaided, or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by manager