Lean Specialist

Lean Specialist

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 will train internal staff on Lean tools and helps develop and maintain Lean transformation processes and programs. This position will be responsible for maintaining training / planning materials, coaching project teams and helping all employees understand and apply Lean Principles to their work. All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.

Key Role Responsibilities - Core

LEAN SPECIALIST FAMILY - CORE

• Trains internal staff on Lean tools. Helps develop and maintain Lean transformation processes and programs.
• Coaches and supports project teams and / or internal customers with implementation of the basic Lean tools such as Last Planner System, Kanban, meeting facilitation and continuous improvement programs.
• May lead and train PMs and Superintendents to run effective Pull Planning sessions, weekly Planning sessions and Daily Stand-up sessions through a lead / co-facilitate / coach model.
• Actively participates in the development and 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.
• Trains and supports the office and / or region with basic lean tools including but not limited to, Value Stream Mapping, A3's, 5S, Visual Management, Kanban and Kaizen.
• Trains and coaches employees and team members to understand the Work Flow Commitment Loop (reliable promising).
• Assumes responsibility for bringing all components of the Last Planner System together to function as a system. Trains and coaches the team in LPS practices.
• 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.

Key Role Responsibilities - Additional Core

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Education

Experience

Working Environment

Benefits Information

The benefits package aligned to this position is Professional Non-Union. Please click the link below for more details.

JE Dunn Construction is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer and it is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. JE Dunn provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for a job, please submit your request to accommodations@jedunn.com .

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