Value Stream Manager

Company Description

Wire Co is the strength behind the world's evolution, through deep legacy and forward thinking, we create premium ropes that inspire innovation without limits. Our global footprint includes manufacturing plants, distribution facilities, and research and development centers around the world.

Wire Co offers a competitive salary, incentive programs, growth opportunities, and excellent benefits offerings for employees and their families. Benefits include paid time off, paid holidays, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan with agenerous company match, 100% company-paid life insurance, and 100% company-paid disability insurance.

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The Value Stream Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end value creation of Sedalia's value stream model towards overall business growth. The Value Stream Manager is the key leader in driving waste out of the value stream, in an effort to generate a consistent product flow, while maintaining a consistently high quality of work.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Ownership of Value Stream P&L's including cost analysis and opportunities, absorption goals, and manufacturing productivity.
• Responsible for leading the Design for Operational Excellence implementation and long-term manufacturing strategies for flow and growth.
• Meets with the Leaders regularly, reflecting on problems, solutions, and challenges, thereby creating a culture of continuous improvement and contributing towards becoming a learning organization.
• Leads the Value Stream in daily operations and continuous improvements which include but are not limited to: supply chain production control, establishing manufacturing priorities, coordination of activities with off
  -shift management and order shipments.
• Emphasizes the creation of continuous product flow, utilize pull systems where flow is not currently possible, and works to level the workload.
• Creates the basis for continuous improvement and employee empowerment by ensuring that standardized work/processes are followed, countermeasures implemented and the area is compliant with safety requirements.
• Instills and maintains a positive can-do team atmosphere within the Value Stream; holding regular team meetings and assigning team members tasks and coordinate support services needed outside the team.
• Utilizes leader daily standard work, in conjunction with the tracking and visual KPI boards, to ensure results are achieved through gemba walks, root cause countermeasure follow-up, and process confirmation.
• Ensures Value Stream Leaders provide effective cross-training for the Value Stream Associates, including backups from other areas, to ensure a continuous smooth running Value Stream. This training is the foundation of a culture that stops to fix problems in order to get quality right the first time.
• Works with the other members of the team to develop the future state value stream map and manages the plans to achieve it, as documented in the Site Tracking Center. In addition, the Value Stream Manager works with the Value Stream Team Leaders to maintain the +QDIPE (Quality, Delivery, Inventory, Productivity and Engagement Process Improvement Boards). The minimum requirements in a visually controlled environment that ensures no problems remain hidden.
• Ensure there is a direct connection with the Quality department to ensure critical to quality process controls are captured end-to-end, throughout the Value Stream.

The Value Stream Manager must exhibit and proactively motivate others in the behaviors of the Wire Co Business System (WBS):

• Teamwork - welcomes an environment of inclusiveness and healthy debate that reflects our team's strength
• Accountable - celebrates our successes, learn from failures, avoid excuses, and own the outcomes of our efforts
• Self-Aware - demonstrates an understanding of our strengths and needs, considering how our actions impact others
• Noble Intent - acts in the interests of others, approaching our work with integrity to ensure the best outcome
• Determined - takes initiative, share ideas and find solutions to win and achieve our goals
• Transparent - promotes open…