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A Brief Summary of This Position:

This position is developmental with a potential future as a site leader within Valmont. This indirect leadership position is responsible for

assisting in the Lean transformation for Uberaba Plant through influence and relationship, as directed by the Senior Plant Manager. The

incumbent will coach and train, managers, supervisors and office & shop floor team members in the applications of Lean tools and processes

including Kaizen events and key metrics associated with ongoing Lean improvement. This position will also be responsible for assisting the

Lean journey by implementing and utilizing Lean Principles and Methodologies. The role of the site Lean Excellence Coordinator is to

champion the use of effective tools to improve operations, measure success and deliver ever-improving results. This position will build

strong relationships throughout the organization to establish trust and credibility in the methodologies of Lean.

Essential Functions:

• Identify, prioritize, and facilitate the execution of a Site Transformation Plan through: Value Stream Mapping, Critical KPI’s, our

Lean Assessment Tool, and Strategy Deployment.

• Drive the strategic vision within the business

• Identify improvement opportunity participants

• Provide relevant training and execution leadership

• Lead, facilitate, and identify ownership of action plans for improvement opportunity events

• Ensure sustainment of improvement opportunity events

• Provide specified communication (including visual management) throughout the improvement opportunity events

• Assist and facilitate the utilization of solid problem solving methodology to assist in action item generation for strategy

deployment targets

• SQDC to Valmont Standards

• Mentor Lean certification 3A participants through their required Lean events

• Assist in the execution and evaluation of the Lean assessment

• Schedule, support, and summarize/report the Lean Steering Committee meetings

• Identify barriers to achieving results and provide direct communicate to leadership

• Implement an operations wide 5S program

• Facilitate the celebration and communication of successful improvement opportunities

Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration or related fields

• Preferred facilitation/coaching experience at TPM events, Standard Work Events, SMED events, RCA’s manufacturing and

administrative value stream improvement projects

• A solid understanding of Lean principles and methodology

• 5+ years of driving Lean or continuous improvement transformation in a manufacturing environment

• A professional Lean Certification and commitment to continuous Lean learning

• Demonstrated experience effectively managing others while facilitating and delivering results to a business

• Proficient in Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Share Point, Internet Explorer

• Effective facilitation skill set for interaction with all levels of the organization

• Strong bias for Action

• Data Driven decision making

• Respectfully challenges the status quo

• Other professional job duties as required

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Lean Manager