Regional World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Champion

Job description

Saint-Gobain , the world leader in the habitat and construction markets, designs, manufactures and distributes building materials, providing innovative solutions to meet growing demand in emerging economies, for energy efficiency and for environmental protection. Saint-Gobain is a welcoming, solid, open-minded company that offers long-term career opportunities.

Through the responsible development of innovative and sustainable building products, CertainTeed, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has helped shape the building products industry for more than 110 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, the firm's slogan 'Quality Made Certain , Satisfaction Guaranteed ,' quickly inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed® is North America’s leading brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, fence, decking, railing, trim, insulation, gypsum and ceilings.

A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest and oldest building products companies, CertainTeed and its affiliates have more than 5,700 employees and more than 60 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and Canada. The group had total sales of approximately $3.3 billion in 2015. www.certainteed.com

POSITION SUMMARY

Utilizing WCM principles and practices the Regional World Class Champion drives overall deployment of World Class Manufacturing to both US and Canadian plants as well as the advancement of the NA Cost Reduction pillar.  The position ensures rapid pace of implementation without compromising the quality of WCM standards. This is a key developmental role in succession planning for plant manager roles with in the organization.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

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Provide demonstrable leadership of the WCM program in our North American plants to ensure WCM is implemented at a rapid pace without compromising the quality of WCM Standards

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As a WCM Subject Matter Expert, provide support and advice to plant management teams to help them identify, analyze, and solve operational problems

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Proactively identify and enable sharing of WCM best practices delivering rapid deployment of improvements

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Coordinate, develop, review, and conduct training for employees in the WCM approach, tools, and techniques and ensure effective deployment at the local plant and corporate levels

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Play a lead role in conducting WCM technical/business reviews assisting the plants to deliver their annual business plans

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Collect, collate and analyze data to chart progress of plants within the specified region against the World Class Manufacturing plan, recommending countermeasures to overcome adverse variances. Provide follow up to such recommendations

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Ensure communications are fully deployed and answers to questions/points of clarification are answered in a timely manner to deliver the required understanding and commitment to WCM

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Track key performance indicators (KPI’s) relative to the WCM program across the region and report cumulative progress to the local Management Team and North American WCM Champion

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Identify continuous improvement opportunities to the overall strategic direction of the North American WCM program

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As NA Cost Reduction Pillar Champion ensure:

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Overall GXO data integrity and resulting stratification

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Use of data to drive the continuous improvement effort forward at the local level

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Formalize tie to plant cost deployment model

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Aid in the optimization and use of GXO from both a user interface and systems use standpoint

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The job demands a good level of :

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Teamwork and coaching

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People management and leadership

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Strong communication skills and overall ability to share and inspire others and drive a continuous improvement culture

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Technical skills

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Manufacturing process understanding

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Operations strategy

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Organization of operations

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