LEAN Partner (Denmark, Kirke Værløse)

Jobbeskrivelse
Placering
Kirke Værløse, Denmark

Jobkategori
Manufacturing

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Are you an experienced Lead Partner with hands-on experience in coaching leaders? Are you passionate about continuously improving ways of working?

Then you are the LEAN Partner we are looking for! Join us for a life-changing career!

The position
In this role, you will support and coach leaders and specialists in improving their Lean knowledge to increase a Lean-Thinking mindset, focusing on how you can contribute to their development and success. You will report to the department Director and be part of the management group. You will be responsible for driving the usage of diverse LEAN tools, management systems, and ensuring a continuous improvement culture.

Your job will be characterized by a dynamic mix of coordination, coaching, and participation in management-related activities and execution of your own task in a more focused manner. We value a flexible work style and the ability to prioritize tasks and manage your time effectively, and we're sure you'll find it motivating. Lean is a crucial tool to improve our processes and to bring our facility to the next level using digitalization, robots/robotics, augmented reality, and related tools and technologies as well as traditional LEAN tools such as physical boards, standards, etc.

Your main tasks will be:

• Be present on the shop floor, coaching, sparring, and providing feedback to the leaders regarding their LSW (Leader Standard Work)
• Drive strategy processes locally together with peers and supporting management.
• Improve our production and information processes using classical and statistical tools (value stream mapping analysis, statistical process control, overall equipment effectiveness, scrap data, etc.)
• Improve our digital/automation tools (digitalization, electronic records and data-capture, robotics, etc.) with responsibility for identification, design, and implementation.
• Implement and improve our Lean tools and systems across the department (visual management, systematic problem solving, standardization of work, identification, and elimination of waste, etc.)
• Drive standardization, anchoring of learnings and good training, knowing that it is what operational excellence builds upon
  

In addition, you will be part of our LEAN network across the functional area, providing knowledge sharing, a uniform strategic direction and incorporation with your peers in the other departments, you will address tasks and challenges that reach across the areas, such as Hoshin Kanri based target setting, cLEAN Supply System implementation etc.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you have:

• At least a bachelor’s degree plus a minimum of 2 years of experience coaching leaders.
• A solid LEAN toolbox and proven track records of results within a manufacturing environment – preferably in a highly regulated environment.
• Excellent change management and stakeholder management skills at all levels.
• Hands-on experience in improving visual management and driving data-driven decision making.
• Full proficiency of oral and written English and Danish.
  

As an individual, you are positive, corporative and solution orientated, and you work systematically, logically, and proactive. You can interact and communicate at all levels of the organization, and you take pride in solving your tasks and challenges as close to the process with the close involvement of your key stakeholders.

About the department
A s part of FP (Finished Products), at our sites in Gentofte, Kalundborg, Kirke Værløse and Taastrup, we are more than 350 colleagues working together to ensure that our finished products are assembled and packed to the highest standards before distributed to people living with serious chronic diseases. We bring value to our patients by delivering high-quality products in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) in a timely and cost-effective way as we constantly optimise our processes and invest in the latest technology.

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact
For further information, please contact Director, Rasmus Herschend, at +45-30797717. * Kindly note that he will not be available from the 15th to the 28th of July.

Deadline
28 July 2024.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few lines about your motivation in your resume or CV. In addition, please avoid the use of photos in your CV. This provides a better and more fair process.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.