Lean Manufacturing Consultant

4 weeks ago

Montréal QC, Canada Prisma International Corporation Full time

Position: Lean Manufacturing Consultant

Type: On-site

Category: Contractor

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Pay: CAD $28-40/hour

Benefits: N/A

Our client has a project set to launch in this quarter of 2025. We are seeking consultants with direct experience in various areas of manufacturing. This role specifically requires an individual with Lean manufacturing production floor experience. The ideal candidate should have expertise in materials flow, preventative maintenance management (specifically CMMS), and Management Operating Systems (MOS). Strong data skills, including the ability to create charts and graphs, are essential.

This individual will be working on production improvement, requiring skills in LEAN/Six Sigma, industrial manufacturing experience, related maintenance, first-pass quality, MOS, and training front-line supervisors on Standard Work. Our client manufactures products commonly found in homes. They utilize the Lean Six Sigma Improvement process and prefer candidates with relevant experience and/or certification.

This project will require approximately 90% travel (Monday-Thursday or Monday-Friday). The expected duration of the project is 5 months.

Consultants must be fluent in both French Canadian and English.

We are looking for consultants who have practical consulting experience and are interested in hands-on, experiential projects.

Job Summary

As a consultant, you will help develop and deliver customized approaches to the client that meets our client’s specific needs including supply chain planning, sourcing/capital allocation, production, and distribution. Our client is a boutique firm, so everyone gets their hands dirty. They all do analysis and create PowerPoints; they expect deep analysis and creative solutions from each of their team members. They implement practical solutions to help their clients to do more with what they have and innovative solutions to take advantage of techniques and technologies they have not tried.

As part of the team, you will:

  • Engage with clients to understand the current state of their business and establish positive relationships that build credibility
  • Gather and analyze relevant data, systems, and processes from supply and demand perspective, conduct client interviews, and visit facilities to observe operations first-hand
  • Identify and catalog problems, challenges, risks, and opportunities
  • Develop performance metrics and construct reports that effectively represent current state and desired future state
  • Create opportunity hypothesis and proposed solutions
  • Develop and evaluate alternative strategies to achieve specific savings objectives
  • Collaborate with clients to define requirements for tools, systems, and processes; recommend design improvements; then, provide implementation oversight including creating documentation, delivering training, and coaching
  • Create and utilize workplans to effectively prioritize and manage multiple concurrent tasks with a high sense of urgency across one or more workstreams
  • Proven ability to create and present effective recommendations, proposals, reports, and formal presentations for use in communicating findings to client management and implementation teams; present “the story”
  • Develop and maintain productive client relationships
  • Work in a tactical mode until potential alternatives are exhausted and future state procedural workstreams are in place, assessed, and fully functioning
  • Interact with peers to foster your support network

Required experience and skills:

  • 5 years of management or business consulting, advisory, manufacturing, industry, and/or direct experience within Supply Chain
  • Proven critical thinking skills in both data collection and complex analysis; ability to identify data gaps and risks, develop sound conclusions, and create implementable and sustainable recommendations for improvement
  • Demonstrated exemplary statistical analytical skills by using tools to drive objective decisions, create solutions and outcomes for a client
  • Proven experience and capabilities in implementation and change management resulting in sustainable solutions
  • An entrepreneurial mindset to collaborate with project team members / clients to design and implement effective solutions to complex business problems; continuously evaluating to uncover new opportunities
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to create communications that “tell the story;” effectively deliver presentations of content in a customer-facing forum
  • Business process mapping to document current and potential future state and use of a mapping software such as MS Visio, etc.
  • Excellent skills across entire Microsoft Office Suite
  • Demonstrated ability to utilize machine learning, AI, etc.

Plus, advanced knowledge in the following areas of specialty:

  • Supply Chain Planning: Demand Planning and Forecasting. Direct experience with statistical forecasting, metrics, and creating consensus with sales/marketing/operations on forecasting
  • ERP/MRP Remediation. Buyer/planner process understanding, shop floor dispatch/control installation, BOMs, and master data management. Evaluate system capabilities and suggest improvements/enhancements to existing functionality
  • Sourcing/Capital allocation: Optimize make/buy, spend and category analysis, supplier and SKU rationalization, value engineering and automation, and asset optimization
  • Production: Master Scheduling/Capacity Planning. Experience with ERP-based modules and system setup. sales and operations planning, productivity and layout assessment, Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement, performance management, change management, and quality management
  • Inventory Management. Detailed analysis of inventory data, targets, and achieving inventory reductions
  • Distribution: Warehouse/Facilities/Logistics & Transportation Management/Distribution Center Management. Familiarity with Warehouse Management Systems, warehouse optimization and store productivity, routing and driver dispatch, fleet management, and logistics



The client will reimburse travel expenses (hotel and flight) and provide a healthy per-diem for food.

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