Continuous Improvement Advisor

Celestica (Laem Chabang, Thailand)

Chonburi, Thailand

Celestica enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, semiconductor capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. A leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. With talented teams across North America, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers. The Celestica Thailand facility has been established since 1995. Being Celestica’s biggest manufacturing site globally, we employ more than 5,000 employees. Our highly skilled teams produce high technology, high quality products for customers in the communications and enterprise market segments. With unrivalled expertise in high-mix low-volume manufacturing, direct fulfillment, reverse logistics and test development, we enable our customers to realize greater value, potential and outcomes.

About this position

Along with CI Leadership, facilitate the development of CI (Lean and Six Sigma) vision for one or more customers or departments, and the strategy deployment plans to deliver that strategy. Facilitate continuous improvement activities in support of the plan. Develop subject matter expertise of Lean and Six Sigma principles, systems, methods and tools. Able to coach and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Deploy the continuous improvement (CI) goals and strategies by applying the Improvement principles, systems, methods and tools for the operation and support functions in the organization
• Contribute to the yearly CI activities execution plan and ensure that project goals are met
• Work closely with key business stakeholders to build a CI environment to support a change management program
• Participate in and/or lead the management gemba (“go and see”) activities
• Participate in and/or co-lead the site/function CI Committee
• Facilitate the adoption and measurement of the Systematic CI Framework Standards
• Facilitate lean and process improvement based CI workshops to drive ideas and solutions
• Facilitate improvement opportunities external to the site/function (as required). This may involve the delivery or training and/or kaizen facilitation at external organizations outside Celestica + other sites in the Celestica network that need help + global support functions within Celestica
• Collaborate with regional and corporate CI teams for the Continuous Improvement activities execution
• Work closely with all area owners to create a culture of continuous improvement
• Drive new ideas and improvement solutions with all area owners and share good practices between customers, departments, sites and functions
• Champion the Reward and Recognition programs to motivate all employees
• Lead large projects that involve solving complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors to reduce/eliminate variation and/or waste
• Support value stream improvements and/or transformation efforts. Provide subject matter expertise on an as needed basis. Provide training for CI for Employees and CI for Leadership certifications and Lean Green Belt and Six Sigma Green Belt certifications, if applicable
• Work to achieve Lean Black Belt and Six Sigma Black Belt certifications

Requirements

• Proven competency to deliver training, facilitate kaizen events and drive business results through application of CI methods
• Hands-on experience in delivering multiple kaizen types
• Experience in key facets of complex manufacturing environments, operations and high performance work, such as Lean Manufacturing leadership
• Project