We are looking for a Lean/Factory of the Future manager who can inspire and lead our site from a traditional manufacturing approach to a world class culture of continuous improvement.
You are to implement the ROCKWOOL Operational Excellence (ROPEX) strategy for ROCKWOOL Nordic in conjunction with the site management team, our five ROPEX Core teams and other stakeholders through training, development, and coaching. As a ROPEX manager, you will become part of a global ROPEX community and work closely together with the regional ROPEX responsible.
You are also our local project manager on our Factory of the Future journey which aims at automizing the site relieving our colleagues from manual labor, increasing the technical skill levels, and making ROCKWOOL more robust in the future where manpower will be less available.
Key responsibilities and activities include, but is not limited to:
- Drive and supervise projects linked to our factory of the future journey.
- Establish KPIs and follow-up on the portfolio of projects in ROPEX and Factory of the Future together with our finance business partner.
- Drive, manage, and develop the ROPEX program to deliver tangible business results.
- Cultivate a robust continuous improvement culture at the factory by ensuring involvement in ROPEX across all layers of the organization and coaching management to uphold this culture.
- Facilitate the annual strategy and policy deployment process within the management team.
- Responsible for establishing and mentoring the 5 ROPEX Core teams at the factory to ensure that the ROPEX tools are embedded into the operations organization and processes.
- Implement and develop standardized processes and share them with other ROCKWOOL sites.
- Establish and develop Lean Leadership and performance management as a strong discipline.
- Plan and conduct training in Lean/ROPEX tools as needed to ensure continuous improvement becomes a natural part of everyday life in the factory.
- Plan, facilitate and follow up on Kaizen activities.
Personal qualities:
The Lean/ROPEX Manager needs to be passionate about Operational Excellence, Lean and Continuous Improvement and be able to inspire the same passion in others. The Lean/ROPEX Manager should be an exceptional influencer and change agent with a high degree of resilience. Excellent communication and project management skills as well as the ability to learn and adapt, are essential. Experience with Toyota Kata and data driven improvements will be helpful.
We offer:
A position in a great management team, where we strive to become the best. An exiting factory with highly skilled colleagues and a big organization in which you can develop your own personal skills and career. We also offer competitive salary schemes and our own local gym. Contact Factory Manager Danny Klausen for more information 41508751.
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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
