Lean Manager

Lean System & Standards
Develop the factory's Lean standards (5S, visual management, standard work) and audit all areas against them.
Give Production Managers and supervisors the tools and support to meet these standards.
Run Lean training and certification for supervisors.
Factory SOPs & Audits
Develop factory SOPs (production, quality, warehouse, maintenance and others) and keep them up to date.
Train department heads and staff on new or revised SOPs.
Audit SOP compliance across all areas regularly, report findings and follow up corrective actions with the owners.
Flow, Lead Time & WIP
Lead projects to cut production lead time and WIP across cutting, sewing and finishing.
Map value streams to find and remove waste across the factory.
DMAIC Projects & Capability
Work plan: review the critical improvement projects initiated by the FMD VP or the Factory Director, and identify the internal and external resources needed to deliver and sustain them.
Training materials: develop DMAIC training materials and keep them updated.
Training: train project teams in DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) or PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) tools, and work with HR to add these tools to the training curriculum.
Facilitation: review each project team's progress regularly and give further training and guidance as needed.
DMAIC projects:
Review progress and status regularly with project owners.
Support project teams with root cause analysis, data analysis, benefit calculation, control procedures and project reporting.
Push project teams to meet their objectives, timelines and expected benefits.
Report projects that miss their objectives, timelines or benefits to the Factory Director.
Kaizen & Idea Program
Encourage employees at all levels to submit and implement improvement ideas.
Evaluate ideas, support project owners and recognize successful ones.
Lead Lean projects (5S, Kaizen, VSM, bottleneck analysis, waste reduction) and cost reduction on labor, equipment and materials.
Best Practice Sharing
Document successful improvements and share them with YIC Hà Nam and YIC VINA.
Bring proven practices from other YIC factories into the Pilot Factory.
Improvement Mindset & Sustainability
Promote the mindset that all work can be improved and that improvement is everyone's job.
Monitor completed improvements and act when results do not hold.
Restart projects that lapsed without good reason.
Other duties as assigned by the direct manage