Ready to help build a better future for generations to come?
In an ever-changing, fast paced world, we owe it to ourselves and our future generations to live life responsibly. At ROCKWOOL, we work relentlessly to enrich modern living through our innovative stone wool solutions.
Join us and make a difference!
Are you interested in a career opportunity that offers high impact and involves identifying improvement opportunities within factory operations and ROCKWOOL-producing units? If so, ROCKWOOL is looking for a Group Operational Excellence Specialist to join our international team. In this role, you will have the chance to develop your talents and travel across Europe, North America, and anywhere in between.
This is who we are
As a member of the Group Operational Excellence team, you will collaborate with 10-12 skilled colleagues to drive improvements in operations and quality management. Together, we pursue strategic targets and foster a culture of continuous, data-driven improvement as well as support cross-functional processes and projects.
This is the role
You will get a versatile role and work in teams of 2-3. From the initial data analysis stage, we collaborate closely with our colleagues in the factories to gain a thorough understanding of the potential for improvement. We then test and implement sustainable solutions based on ROCKWOOL best practices and new innovation.
- Participate in implementing and developing our Operational Excellence program.
- Plan and conduct analyses of our factory operations to identify potential improvements in productivity, output, and quality.
- Maximize throughput by identifying and addressing the most critical limiting factors.
- Work closely with factory teams to collect, interpret, and visualize operational data, ensuring data-driven decision making.
- Train and coach colleagues at our factories in LEAN tools incl. how to perform analyses and observations.
- Introduce structured problem solving and experimentation using Toyota Kata, and coach individuals and teams until it becomes a part of their shop floor management practice.
- Identify and share best practices and group standards throughout the organization.
- Create implementation plans, establish key performance indicators (KPIs), and develop follow-up structures to ensure that our projects have a real impact.
- Contribute to the development of our operations improvement toolbox, based on Lean principles, digitalization, and continuous improvement.
This is what you offer
You have strong communication and influencing skills, allowing you to collaborate with colleagues at different levels. Moreover, you have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, you thrive at the shop floor as well as with senior management and you naturally push for optimisations wherever possible. Also, you have excellent intercultural competencies and the flexibility to travel 60-70 days a year within Denmark and internationally. You also bring:
- A master of science within industrial engineering or business
- 3-4 years’ experience from lean manufacturing implementations with a proven track record within operation, preferably from consulting
- Good understanding of Lean tools and how to apply them at the shop floor
- Analytic and structured way of working
- Creative, comprehensive understanding of data analytics, data visualization, and TOC methodology
- Demonstrated coaching and facilitation skills, allowing you to work at all levels of the organisation
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken
What we offer
By joining our team, you become a part of the people-centric work environment of a Danish company. We offer you a competitive salary, permanent contract after the probation period, development package, team building events, activity-based office in Poznan’s city center in the new prestigious office building – Nowy Rynek. The building is recognized as a building without barriers, which means that it is fully adapted to the needs of people with disabilities.
Our compensation package on employment contracts includes:
- An office-first approach: home office is available up to 2 days per week
- Adaptable Hours: start your workday anytime between 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM
- Home office subsidy;
- Private Medical Care
- Multikafeteria MyBenefit
- Wellbeing program
- Extra Day Off for voluntary activities
… and while in the office you can also use modern office space with beautiful view and high standard furniture, bicycle parking facilities & showers, chill-out rooms with PlayStation, football table, pool table, board games, subsidized canteen.
Interested?
If you see yourself in this role, we kindly invite you to apply with CV written in English.
Who are we?
We are the world leader in stone wool solutions. Founded in 1937 in Denmark, we transform volcanic rock into safe, sustainable products that help people and communities thrive. We are a global company with more than 12,200 employees, located in 40+ countries with 51 manufacturing facilities… all focused on one common purpose – to release the natural power of stone to enrich modern living.
Sustainability is central to our business strategy. ROCKWOOL was one of the first companies to commit to actively contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework and are actively committed to 11 SDGs, including SDG 14, Life Below Water. Through our partnership with the One Ocean Foundation and in connection with our sponsorship of the ROCKWOOL Denmark SailGP team, we will help raise awareness around ocean health challenges in an effort to accelerate solutions to protect it.
Diverse and Inclusive Culture
We want all our people to feel valued, respected, included and heard. We employ 79 different nationalities worldwide and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees, promote diversity, and work against all forms of discrimination among ROCKWOOL employees.
At ROCKWOOL, you will experience a friendly team environment. Our culture is very important to us. In fact, we refer to our culture as “The ROCKWOOL Way”. This is the foundation in which we operate and is based upon our values of ambition, responsibility, integrity and efficiency.
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What We Do
We release the natural power of stone to enrich modern living.
ROCKWOOL Group is a focused industrial company with leading positions in insulation, acoustic ceilings and horticultural growing media based on proprietary stone wool technology. We harness the properties that nature has given us to create products for quality living.
Our products touch most aspects of everyday life. We offer carefully designed, innovative sustainable solutions for your comfort, safety and for the benefit of the environment.
ROCKWOOL Group's business portfolio consists of:
* ROCKWOOL® insulation solutions for buildings.
* ROCKWOOL® technical insulation solutions to both industry, marine and offshore.
* ROCKWOOL® core solutions tailor made stone wool products to be integrated into finished systems.
* Rockfon® acoustic ceilings and wall solutions.
* Rockpanel® cladding material.
* Grodan® growing media solutions for plants.
* Lapinus® solutions for applications such as friction, water management, tracks, coatings, gaskets.
At ROCKWOOL Group, we are committed to enriching the lives of everyone who experiences our product solutions. Our expertise is perfectly suited to tackle many of today’s biggest sustainability and development challenges, from energy consumption and noise pollution to fire resilience, water scarcity and flooding. Our range of products reflects the diversity of the world’s needs, supporting our stakeholders in reducing their own carbon footprint along the way.
Stone wool is a versatile material and forms the basis of all our businesses. With around 12,200 colleagues in 40 countries, we are the world leader in stone wool solutions, from building insulation to acoustic ceilings, external cladding systems to horticultural solutions, engineered fibres for industrial use to insulation for the process industry and marine & offshore
