Value Stream Manager

Location : SALT LAKE CITY, UT, United States

Job Family : Manufacturing and Production

Job Type : Regular

Posted : Dec 10, 2024

Job ID : 53238

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Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or @parkerhannifin.

Position Summary

Broad responsibility and leadership for overall operation of a value stream. Implements the Parker Lean system and Win Strategy to ensure a safe work environment, maximize profitable growth, drive quality improvements, provide premier customer service, develop a technically qualified work force, reduce operating costs, inventories and lead times through continuous improvements. Oversee day-to-day activities to meet daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly expectations.

Responsible for all aspects of managing the Value Stream including developing associates, ensuring that team consensus is used to evaluate decisions thoroughly, ensuring that decisions are rapidly implemented, budget planning, employment decisions related to associates, and performance assessment of all direct reports, team leaders, and associates.

Essential Functions

• Ownership of Value Stream P&L, including cost analysis and opportunities, product line margin, PPV goals, and manufacturing productivity.

• Responsible for POP implementation and long-term manufacturing strategies

• Operational leadership, including successful Lean implementation, resulting in productivity gains.

• Meets with the Value Stream Leaders regularly, reflecting on problems, solutions, and challenges, creating a culture of continuous improvement and contributing to 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 complies 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 coordinating support services needed outside the team.

• Utilizes PDCA in conjunction with the Tracking Centers and Team Improvement Boards to ensure results.

• Ensures Value Stream Leaders provide effective cross-training for the Value Stream Associates, including backups from other areas, to assure a continuous smooth running Value Stream.

• Works with the other members of Division Staff to develop the future state value stream map and manages the plans to achieve it, as documented in the Site Tracking Center.

  Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree

• 5-7 years of major professional accomplishments, including increasing responsibility and leadership of projects and teams of considerable size, scope and complexity.

• Previous P&L ownership experience is preferred.

• Experience and background in accounting, PC skills, manufacturing, human resources management, inventory control and strategic planning.

• Demonstrated teamwork and team-building skills in producing results by meeting organizational objectives.

• Capable of assessing and developing individual and team skills and capabilities.

• Able to create and maintain enthusiasm for new and challenging goals.

• Serve as a role model by promoting new ideas and positive change.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Involved with or lead a team in LEAN

• This position may be filled at a Grade 10 level if candidates do not meet all the qualifications.

  Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

  Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required for all positions, and certain positions may require specific types of legal work authorizations. Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/VEVRAA Federal Contractor.