Value Stream Leader

Value Stream Leader

Web Industries is a 100% employee-owned company (ESOP), which brings a lot of advantages to the people who work herebeyond the great pay and excellent benefits. You're not just an employee, you are an employee-owner, with a vested interest in the success of the company. Web Industries' founder, Bob Fulton, believed that the people who create the value of a company, the employees, should share in the success of the company. We believe there is a real energy that exists when people are open, honest, and work together to meet mutual goals. We do this by living our values:

• Heart of an Owner: Taking personal responsibility and pride in our work.
• Stronger Together: The power of collaboration and teamwork.
• Find a Way: Determination and creativity to overcome challenges

As a company, we thrive on that energy and work to bring it into every product and every project that we touch. At Web, we believe the employee experience is paramount to our company's success. Working with us, you'll experience a myriad of cultures, locations, industries, and technologies. And you'll be part of an employee-owned company dedicated to helping you achieve a fulfilling life and a rewarding career.

Work Location: Denton, Texas

Position Summary

The Value Stream Leader coordinates all activities associated with a specific value stream with the relevant functional stakeholders to ensure the value stream meets or exceeds customer requirements. Utilizing an understanding of the value stream and process capabilities, the VSL will eliminate waste in overall operations from start to finish. The VSL will utilize Lean tools to facilitate communication, execution, and accountability. Within the value stream, this role drives implementation, alignment, and execution of business processes to ensure maximum benefit is derived.

Principal Duties and Essential Functions:

• Own and maintains the Value Steam Map for a start to finish defined product family. Responsible for achieving the financial requirements of the value stream by way of operational output (sales), margin performance and overhead budget (profit), and on time delivery (cash).
• Responsible for the daily coordination of all production activities and continuous improvement efforts in an assigned value stream.
• Drive performance within the value stream utilizing lean process activities (daily accounting process, leader standard work, managing systems, standard KPIs, 6S, and troubleshooting techniques) works to improve operational discipline.
• Collaborate with Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Human Resources to ensure achievement of high quality products, production plans to meet customer service, manufacturing cost objectives, new product commercialization launches, machine reliability and performance improvements, and to best recruit and retain new and existing associates.
• Perform GEMBA Walks with other stakeholders to develop learnings and best practices and to define opportunities for improvement.
• Executes the operational team plan identifying the key actions required during the fiscal year to ensure operational goals and commitment are met.
• Maintains value stream informational boards and prepares informational reports and daily status updates as required. Attends and participates in daily meetings with the Operations Team and in other meetings as scheduled.
• Ensures that material is being planned and requisitioned to meet the production schedule. Also ensures that inventory is accurately maintained and issued, and that variances are properly managed.
• Partners with customers to understand customer needs and issues and ensure that the customers receive satisfactory standards of services.

Additional Required Qualifications/Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in organizational development, Process Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• 5+ years of successful leadership experience with increasing levels of responsibility in manufacturing.
• 5+ years of successful Continuous Improvement experience using Lean Six Sigma tools and visual factory.
• Strong computer skills including MS office specifically proficient in Excel application; ability to quickly learn new systems.
• Experience driving Lean manufacturing principles and implementation/understanding of production systems, including setting and maintaining meaningful metrics to drive improvement.
• Experience interacting with customers at high levels of the organization.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Facilitation and coaching skills, particularly cross-functions.
• Ability to overcome resistance to organizational change, influence both hourly and salaried employees to embrace it, and lead the change initiative.
• Requires high level of plant floor presence to establish extensive knowledge of processes and opportunities for improvement, engaging employees at all levels in identifying solutions.
• Eligible to work on government contracts.

Additional Preferred Qualifications/Skills:

• Lean Certified / Six Sigma Blackbelt preferred
• Experience in assembly manufacturing
• Knowledge of composites materials and/or multi-layer insulation
• Experience in aerospace industry