Value Stream Leader

AP Professionals has partnered with a manufacturing company in search of a Value Stream Leader. This is a critical role responsible for leading processes that meet quality, cost, and safety standards, overseeing and evaluating employee performance, ensuring safety compliance, and implementing efficient production processes. A bachelor’s degree is required for this role. Must have 8 years of manufacturing leadership experience and strong knowledge of Lean principles. Experience in a highly regulated environment is preferred.

This is a full time, direct hire opportunity.

This opportunity is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

• Ensure production plans meet current and future requirements and reflect non-commercial activities that would impact the production schedule.
• Drives root cause analysis of issues in production and monitors upcoming production schedules to resolve conflicts and drive efficiency.
• Ensures that appropriate levels of trained resources are available to meet production schedules.
• Identify and mitigate operational and organizational risks; escalates key risks and issues to manufacturing senior management and cross-functional support teams.
• Determine performance and cost standards to drive reduction in waste and increases in efficiency
• Adheres to capital and expense budgets and determine ways for cost reduction.
• Oversees the production process, creating a schedule; adjusting schedules as needed.
• Develops and tracks improvement in reduction of planned direct labor hours.
• Manages the adherence to prescribed procedures to ensure first pass quality meets or exceeds planned goals.
• Manages employee performance by clearly defining job responsibilities and standards of performance; tracking progress against goals; providing clear, thorough, timely feedback; and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.
• Understands HR policies and practices and uses them to manage employees.
• Keep up-to-date on technical knowledge and developments that impact roles.
• Ensure employees are up to date on technical knowledge through creating a learning environment by coaching employees, orchestrating learning opportunities, and providing relevant, high-impact feedback.
• Coordinates, sets up and implements standard operating procedures for all production operations.
• Utilizes understanding of regulatory environment and industry trends to identify ways to improve process quality and compliance.
• Ensures stakeholders are appropriately trained on the process and any process changes.
• Supports all company GMP, Compliance, and safety initiatives and assures compliance with company safety policies, procedures and OSHA safety regulations.
• Participate in safety inspections as required.
• Enforce all site security requirements.
• Assists in ensuring that site activities do not create a negative impact on the environment.

• Bachelor’s Degree is required
• Master’s Degree/MBA or Ph.D. is a plus

• 8+ years of manufacturing leadership experience
• Experience in a highly regulated environment

• Ability to implement Lean principles
• Ability to make decisions and provide direction not employees
• Proven leadership, problem solving, and technical skills