LEAN Coordinator Global Operations & Supply Chain · Lynge, Copenhagen Region, Denmark

Would you like to deliver Business Improvements across our manufacturing sites globally? Do you enjoy creating results in close collaboration with colleagues across different cultures, functions, and organizational levels in an industry with a huge impact on people’s life quality?

Then use this opportunity to join our Operations Excellence Team to facilitate activities across WS Audiology to strengthen our Global LEAN ambitions.

Who we are
At WS Audiology, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world. With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

The role
As a Lean Coordinator, you will be a part of the small Lynge Operations Excellence team and play a significant role in further roll-out of our SMART Lean concept and facilitate LEAN activities to promote the LEAN culture in our manufacturing site in Lynge.

You will be working closely with our manufacturing departments reaching from microelectronic production and plastic production to Hearing Aid production. You will also become a member of the Global SMART Lean team collaborating across all our regions: Americas, EMEA and APAC.

Furthermore, your responsibilities include:

• Implementing and facilitating the board management in the production departments ensuring progress to obtain best practice and full potential
• Initiate, support, and follow up on local improvement projects by completing Gemba walks with managers and teams on-site, support facilitating Kaizen events, performing KATA and Root cause coaching
• Facilitating Value Stream Mappings
• Support Lean academy training for managers and employees together with Lean consultants
• Progress the Smart Lean Program concept focusing on business processes, such as value/cost deployment and process improvement as well as implement methodologies to sustain long-term improvements

About you
To succeed in the role, you are experienced with LEAN and have a Sigma degree, with the desire to use your competencies to support and promote a LEAN culture.

Experience:

• Have relevant experience related to Continuous Improvement from Production or Engineering
• Know the contents of the Lean toolbox and understand how, when, and where to choose and use the different tools
• Have MS Office application skills on presentation level
• Have good experience with Lean management in production context, and you know how to train managers and their team members in Lean thinking

Personal competencies:

• You know how to motivate people and promote your agenda through effective collaboration and knowledge sharing
• You thrive working with a long-term approach to LEAN and are motivated by implementation, support, and follow-up on Lean activities
• As a person, you are a team-oriented person and thrive on assisting others to perform their best with a positive attitude
• You are self-driven and enjoy being part of the change you facilitate and see the results of your work
• You are structured, analytic, and data driven

Sounds Wonderful? Join us
WS Audiology is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.

Department
Global Operations & Supply Chain

Role
EMEA Operations

Locations
Lynge, Copenhagen Region, Denmark

Employment type
Full-time

Contact Nanna Fyrsterling