Vice President Lean Transformation: Details: Delicato Family Vineyards is a family-owned California winery founded in 1924. Three generations of the Indelicato family have guided grapes from vineyard to bottle and into homes and dining establishments around the world. Delicato Family Vineyards is steadfastly committed to crafting and representing wines of the highest quality produced in accordance with sustainable winegrowing practices. Among the leading and fastest growing wine companies in America, the Delicato Family Vineyards’ portfolio includes Gnarly Head, Black Stallion Estate Winery, Noble Vines, Belle Ambiance, Juxtapoz, HandCraft Artisan Collection, La Merika, First Press, Bota Box, Massimo, Irony, Domino and Twisted. Position Summary: The Vice President Lean Transformation is a true Lean champion and strategist who will craft and execute with excellence the roadmap for an all-encompassing Lean Transformation. This Lean leader oversees, directs and manages assigned staff and activities to drive Lean Methodology and effectively identify opportunities, analyze and solve organizational challenges, improve manufacturing systems, identify waste reduction opportunities and any other relevant continuous improvement initiatives. The incumbent will work directly with the senior leadership team to ensure alignment and strategy deployment with Company goals as well as coach their development of Lean leadership competencies. Directly coaches all levels of the organization on Lean principles, management systems and practical daily application. Duties/Essential Job Functions: • Utilizes Lean, and other Continuous Improvement (CI) methodologies to drive a culture of learning, a dedication to ongoing improvement, and a focus on sustainable results. • Develops, executes, and maintains CI plan in conjunction with leadership team to drive training and activities in support of ongoing process improvements. • Identifies and works with team to execute projects in the Value Stream. • Builds relationships with relevant stakeholders to understand current processes and associated challenges. • Coordinates efforts with senior leaders and staff members in identifying improvement opportunities within the Company and develops justifications to substantiate potential cost savings. • Develops, implements, and leads company-wide team efforts in establishing and/or improving key performance indicators such as manufacturing OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), product quality, waste reduction, process performance, supply chain efficiency, energy conservation, safety, and operating costs. • Ensures that associated performance management metrics aligned with CI activity are reflecting improvement and sustainment when in control phase. • Reports out on CI activity, plans, and results to Senior Leadership Team during project report outs and in strategic planning meetings. • Leads Kaizen Events, and trains and coaches the leadership team and cross functional lean coordinators network in the principles, methods, and applications of Lean techniques such that CI is integrated into management systems. • Trains in Lean (tools, principles, activities, etc.), mentors, and develops team leaders whose primary responsibilities are problem solving, developing standardized work, and CI. • Conducts analysis and utilizes value stream mapping and problem solving to establish and validate standards and to troubleshoot and streamline work flows. • Fosters and drives the development of CI teams. • Other responsibilities and duties as they arise in support of the organization. dlvr.it/7Hm4Nk
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:22:24 +0000
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