About the position
At BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, you will use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions. You will build and lead an agile team to deliver the advanced technology that drives the future and create a culture of trust, encourage diversity of thought, and foster leadership in others. You will be part of the historic transformation of the automotive industry. You'll also ensure manufacturing operating system standards are applied and standardized throughout the area, create and coordinate work plans to ensure the team is maintaining production flow, and promote, support, and coach a continuous improvement mindset and activities in the team. Achieving business results by delivery of key performance indicators to ensure objectives are met is also a key responsibility. You will drive continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles, motivate teams by leveraging technology and best-in-class manufacturing systems, and mentor, nurture, and develop teams to own working together, modeling the values and expected behaviors. Supporting teams by removing barriers to their success and developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities is essential. You will lead change efforts to construct and achieve manufacturing standards, demonstrate empathy and embrace Gemba philosophy by engaging regularly with employees in production environments to listen and problem solve, and champion the formation of the culture required to achieve the Vision, Mission, and Values to deliver performance objectives. Enabling a culture of learning through demonstration of effective communication skills and developing 'leaders as teachers' at all levels by ensuring all employees receive necessary training, coaching, and support to optimize performance and advance both the overall organization as well as self is also part of your role.
Responsibilities
- Ensure manufacturing operating system standards are applied and standardized throughout the area.
- Create and coordinate work plans to ensure the team is maintaining production flow.
- Promote, support, and coach a continuous improvement mindset and activities in the team.
- Achieve business results by delivery of key performance indicators to ensure objectives are met.
- Drive continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles.
- Motivate teams by leveraging technology and best-in-class manufacturing systems.
- Mentor, nurture, and develop teams to own working together, modeling the values and expected behaviors.
- Support teams by removing barriers to their success and developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- Lead change efforts to construct and achieve manufacturing standards.
- Demonstrate empathy and embrace Gemba philosophy by engaging regularly with employees in production environments to listen and problem solve.
- Champion the formation of the culture required to achieve the Vision, Mission, and Values to deliver performance objectives.
- Enable a culture of learning through demonstration of effective communication skills.
- Develop 'leaders as teachers' at all levels by ensuring all employees receive necessary training, coaching, and support to optimize performance and advance both the overall organization as well as self.
Requirements
- Emotionally intelligent leader who remains calm in ambiguous situations.
- Able to align team members from different backgrounds and cultures to achieve business strategy.
- Strong leadership skills and experience leading, attracting, and developing strong results-oriented teams.
- Experience managing high degrees of complexity in processes and communication with all levels of leadership.
- Strong business acumen and project management skills.
- Collaborative leadership style is necessary to influence and build meaningful relationships with all cross functional teams.
- Good communicator with a proven ability to build trust, influence, and foster relationships.
