Lean Specialist

Position: Lean Specialist 2
Best People + Right Culture. These are the driving forces behind JE Dunn's success.

By hiring inspired people, giving them interesting and challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and letting them share in the company's rewards, we've found a sustainable way to grow in our industry for the last 100+ years.

Our diverse teams around the country strive to enrich lives through inspired people and places everyday, and we need inspired people like you to join us in our pursuit of building perfection.

Role Summary

The Lean Specialist 2 will support the training of internal staff on Lean tools and help maintain Lean transformation processes and programs, taking on increasingly more complex tasks and roles. This position will be responsible for maintaining training/planning materials, assisting in the coaching of project teams, and helping all employees understand and applying Lean Principles to their work while building an understanding of the use of Lean principles in construction.

All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.

* Autonomy & Decision-Making:
Follows directions and refers all exceptions to supervisor.

* Career Path:
Senior Lean Specialist

Key Role Responsibilities - Core

LEAN SPECIALIST FAMILY - CORE

* Supports the training of internal staff on Lean tools. Helps develop and maintain Lean transformation processes and programs

* Gathers information and completes analysis to assess impact of Lean transformation on projects

* May train and support team members with basic lean tools

* Supports the maintenance of the organization's ongoing Lean journey

* Challenges project team members and employees to identify, remove and resolve constraints that prevent the team from fulfilling commitments

* Maintains level of standards of lean tools used among project teams or within the organization

* Identifies new and innovative ways to implement Lean tools and methodologies

* Utilizes current training materials and customizes to specific assigned customer

* Looks for opportunities to improve current training materials

* Serves as an ongoing resource for assigned projects and employees to help identify opportunities for improvement using quantitative and qualitative information

* Supports and participates in data collection and analysis analyzing the effectiveness of lean programs

* Participates in monthly meetings with assigned region leadership

* Supports weekly Friday Lean Huddles in the region

Key Role Responsibilities - Additional Core

In addition, this position will be responsible for the following:

* Acts as an advisor on Lean tools for assigned projects and employees. Supports increasingly complex situations and questions

* Assumes responsibility on smaller scale or less complex projects to introduce Lean tools and methodology to project teams

* Implements team member training on basic lean tools

* Assumes ownership over portions of customer-specific training materials including creating recommendations to assigned Lean leadership

* Implements internally developed lean programs and processes

* Facilitates internal lean client team engagement activities within project teams

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

* Ability to perform work accurately and completely, and in a timely manner

* Communication skills, verbal and written - Intermediate

* Proficiency in MS Office

* Ability to facilitate meetings and build consensus

* Ability to conduct effective presentations - Intermediate

* Ability to coach

* Ability to adapt and respond to dynamic situations

* Ability and desire to master new skills - Intermediate

* Ability to lead change management and Lean efforts - Intermediate

* Listening skills - Intermediate

* Ability to read a situation and make sound assessments and recommendations

* Ability to speak confidently in small groups

* Open learner and highly coachable

* Knowledge of Lean process and philosophy

* Ability to build relationships and collaborate within a team, internally and externally

Education

* Bachelor's degree (Required)

* In lieu of the above requirements, equivalent relevant experience will be considered

Experience

* 2+ years construction operations or Lean experience…