Director, Lean Six Sigma

**Job Summary**:
***This is a critical position within the Global Operations organization - responsible for driving improvement towards operational excellence by leveraging Lean principles in the company’s business processes. You will be a thought leader and partner with functional management to assess opportunities, and together drive UCT to the next level of Lean/Six Sigma improvement.

Your work will be directly engaged in assuring that our data on failures and quality escapes is captured, interpreted and analyzed thoroughly. This information and analysis should drive the functional groups in the company to improve through prevention and root cause analysis and response and recovery

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- S_**pecific functional activities include**:

- Deliver Operational Excellence by driving the execution of the Lean and continuous improvement methodology as applicable through local management to deliver successful productivity, cost reduction, safety and/or quality improvement initiatives. Focus on Lean Enterprise in a structured sustainable way that simplifies business processes, while achieving challenging targets.
- Create a lean and continuous improvement roadmap that includes a comprehensive analysis and prioritization of key opportunities for each site. Include and engage cross functional members at all levels of the organization as we execute initiatives that will drive sustainable results. Success of this role will require engaging, leading and influencing key stakeholders across the campus or site.
- Provide leadership of the Operational Excellence efforts at the site, including Lean, Industrial Engineering and Project Engineering. Also supports Operational Excellence efforts at key suppliers.
- Through active participation and shop floor engagement, support proactive performance management and the daily monitoring of KPIs. Support weekly and monthly performance monitoring, analysis and reporting.
- Support Commercialization efforts through IE and Lean team member efforts to optimize new and changed products and technologies.
- Support Value Realization and Optimization efforts by providing resources and leadership for key corporate initiatives.
- Support Project Engineering teams and Manufacturing Leadership in the development of Strategic investment plans through direct participation in risk mitigation efforts for capacity and capability gaps as well as, interaction with site-based teams, NPI Engineering teams and Manufacturing Engineering Excellence resources.
- Participate in the ideation, development, evaluation, recommendation, and execution of advanced technologies such as Robotics, Late Stage Differentiation, Manufacturing and Logistics Execution systems
- Ensure the sharing and driving of best practices and lessons learned (internal / external). Leverage use of global communication platforms to fill the pipeline with new ideas and best practices, as well as providing the supply chain network with local success stories and initiatives.
- Deliver sustainable cultural and behavioral changes across the business to build an Operational Excellence and Lean and Continuous Improvement culture including support functions, through coaching, mentoring and influencing employees, business team leaders, and global lean professionals.

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:

- Operations and material flow
- Manufacturing engineering and test
- Lean / Six Sigma Training

**Educational/Certification Requirement**:
B.S. degree in Engineering, or a related technical field. Master’s degree in engineering, business or a related technical field as well as being a certified Six Sigma Green or Black Belt preferred.

**Experience Requirement**:
**Work Experience**:Previous experience: 5-10 years in industrial engineering or operations at Senior Manager or above