Associate Lean Director

Overview

Lead regional Lean initiatives, drive continuous improvement, coach teams, and align strategy with exec.

Key Responsibilities

• process improvement
• ci techniques
• lean training
• process standardization
• best practices
• mentoring

Tasks

-Work closely with local leadership to implement and deliver improvements in process performance. -Foster innovation by introducing new CI techniques, methodologies, and tools, sharing insights broadly across CI Team. -Conduct training sessions and workshops to promote Lean methodologies. -Identify key process improvement opportunities and lead process standardization. -Solve challenges by helping with global synergy opportunities, best practice sharing implementation. -Facilitate workshops and training sessions, balancing theoretical knowledge with practical application. -Mentor other project leaders to accelerate results and improve the culture of continuous improvement.

Requirements

• continuous improvement
• lean
• six sigma
• bachelor's
• business transformation
• facilitation

What You Bring

-Extensive experience in Continuous Improvement. -Demonstrated capability in team building, coaching, and effective collaboration. -Experience in leading, training, and coaching Lean and 6Sigma methods & tools. -Travel Requirements: 25-50% -Excellent facilitation and strategic thinking skills. -Proven analytical and systems-thinking: design & deployment of end-to-end solutions that exceed requirements. -Proactive risk management and issue resolution skills with appropriate escalation practices. -Bachelor’s degree in Business, Quality, Engineering, or a related field. -Demonstrated leadership capability, strong business acumen, ability to align change management approach to business needs. -Strong communication and presentation skills. Ability to establish rapport with leaders, customers and peers. -Experience leading business transformation projects - track record of delivering tangible, recognized business & customer results.

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About Johnson Controls

-Pioneered the electric thermostat, launching the building controls industry. -Evolved into a global leader in smart building systems through over a century of innovation. -Typical projects range from HVAC installations to integrated smart systems in hospitals, airports, stadiums, and data centers using their OpenBlue digital platform. -Expertise covers HVAC, fire detection and suppression, security systems, energy management, and facility services. -Earned LEED Platinum certification for its North American headquarters and supplied smart systems to landmarks like Burj Khalifa and Taipei 101.

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