Operational Excellence Manager - Ekurhuleni at Unique Personnel

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Identifying, prioritising and implementing initiatives to improve productivity, quality, service delivery, and/or reducing costs and complexity across the organisation 
• Setting governance for continuous improvement, quality, planning and procurement programmes across multiple functions 
• Leading the development, deployment, and measurement of cross-functional transformation programmes, directing programme management to support such initiatives
• Embedding a passion for operational excellence within operations programmes, with a focus on business transformation 
• Identifying and capturing business needs / opportunities through communication with stakeholders 
• Driving innovation with systems, processes and technology improvements 
• Leading large complex programmes (supported by Operational Excellence team) to accelerate operational, productivity and service delivery performance 
• Promoting the value of operational excellence across the organisation to create demand for the benefits and a strong continuous improvement culture 
• Setting direction and providing effective, cost efficient and robust techniques to achieve improvements, resulting in high quality and innovative output
• Facilitating and driving the development of new ideas and concepts with minimal risk and disruption to core business processes / functions. 
• Leading the organisation’s capital investment programme, ensuring strong business need, that ROI is developed and targets for growth and profitability are achieved
• Leading the development of robust and appropriate audit standards and compliance, ensuring effective execution of quality audits and appropriate and timely NCR action plans are closed 
• Leading the organisation’s procurement strategies, targeting economies of scale and ensuring that costs are effectively managed, and that the performance of suppliers is maximised
• Decision Accountability:
• Own: Resource allocation, Training requirements and plans, Budget spend (with limits of authority)
• Shared: Resource levels
• Financial; Budget Holder (cost centre)

Inherent Requirements    

Qualifications, Experience & Knowledge:

• Senior management / leadership experience (in an operational organisation) in the pump or similar industry
• Business Process Improvement
• Six Sigma Black Belt / Lean Expert certification (desirable) 
• Robotic Process Automation (desirable) 
• Programme Management 
• Policy Deployment Processes
• Supply Chain / Service / Manufacturing experience (desirable)