The Value Stream Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end value creation of Rosenberg's value stream model towards overall business growth. The Value Stream Manager is the key leader in driving waste out of the value stream, in an effort to generate a consistent product flow, while maintaining a consistently high quality of work.
Requirements
- Ensure a healthy and safe working environment, and compliance with government regulations including OSHA.
- Ownership of Value Stream P&L's including cost analysis and opportunities, absorption goals, and manufacturing productivity.
- Collaborates with Senior Leadership and Finance to develop manufacturing operating budget and manages actual expenditures to ensure they compare favorably with budgeted expenditures.
- Responsible for leading the Design for Operational Excellence implementation and long-term manufacturing strategies for flow and growth.
- Meets with the Leaders regularly, reflecting on problems, solutions, and challenges, thereby creating a culture of continuous improvement and contributing towards becoming a learning organization.
- Leads the Value Stream in daily operations and continuous improvements which include but are not limited to: supply chain production control, establishing manufacturing priorities, coordination of activities with off-shift management and order shipments.
- Emphasizes the creation of continuous product flow, utilize pull systems where flow is not currently possible, and works to level the workload.
- Creates the basis for continuous improvement and employee empowerment by ensuring that standardized work/processes are followed, countermeasures implemented and the area is compliant with safety requirements.
- Instills and maintains a positive can-do team atmosphere within the Value Stream; holding regular team meetings and assigning team members tasks and coordinate support services needed outside the team.
- Utilizes leader daily standard work, in conjunction with the tracking and visual KPI boards, to ensure results are achieved through gemba walks, root cause countermeasure follow-up, and process confirmation.
- Ensures Value Stream Leaders provide effective cross-training for the Value Stream Associates, including backups from other areas, to ensure a continuous smooth running Value Stream.
- Responsible for maintaining work force staffing levels required to meet the production plan.
- Ensures effective training, development and evaluation of manufacturing personnel to build and improve skills.
- Communicates and explains new directives, policies, or procedures; periodically meets with entire plant staff to explain changes, answer questions, and maintain morale.
- Works with the other members of the team to develop the future state value stream map and manages the plans to achieve it, as documented in the Site Tracking Center.
- In addition, the Value Stream Manager works with the Value Stream Team Leaders to maintain the +QDIPE (Quality, Delivery, Inventory, Productivity and Engagement Process Improvement Boards).
- The minimum requirements in a visually controlled environment that ensures no problems remain hidden.
- Ensure there is a direct connection with the Quality department to ensure critical to quality process controls are captured end-to-end, throughout the Value Stream.
- Directs the Value streams to assure that finished products consistently meet the WireCo quality standards and maintain the plant's ISO and API certifications.
- The Value Stream Manager must exhibit and proactively motivate others in the behaviors of the WireCo Business System (WBS):
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with a generous company match
- 100% company-paid life insurance
- 100% company-paid disability insurance
