Kaizen Manager

5 months ago


Burlington, Canada Adi Development Group Full time

Adi Development Group is one of Canada’s leading, most innovative real estate development, construction management and investment companies. With over 4000 units and $3Billion of built value under development throughout the GTHA, We are on an insurgent mission to re-invent the customer experience and to deliver homes faster, better and more cost effectively to our customers. As an Adian you will have the opportunity to shape communities and create lasting landmarks that will be admired for generations. The life-defining work you will do with Adi will directly impact and positively change the lives of our customers and communities we serve. We champion ownership and encourage all of our team members to think and act like owners. Adi is committed to not only develop buildings, but to developing the leaders of tomorrow.

Successful Adians care deeply about their work and commit to continuously learn and develop in their field. Adians think about how every decision they make will impact our customers and go the extra mile to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Our most successful Adians work with a bias toward action. They value experimentation and trying new ways of working to ensure we deliver results to our customers.

Adians offer support to our teammates before being asked. We help each other improve through candid, constructive feedback and empower each other to perform. It does not matter if you are a new or seasoned Adian. We welcome diverse perspectives and encourage each other to speak up. Successful Adians challenge each others’ thinking through respectful and thoughtful debate. When we reach a decision, we commit and move forward together. We are a team. We face adversity together. We learn together. We win together.

**What You’ll Be Doing**:

- Drive the cultural change and discipline necessary to create and sustain a successful continuous improvement culture.
- Partner with business leadership in all functional groups to assess current processes and identify process improvement opportunities
- Manage the AMS 2nd Level X-Matrix to build the transformation roadmap for selecting, scoping and completing Lean initiatives
- Plan and assist in the execution of 8-Step Problem Solving and Kaizen events that deliver significant and quantifiable process improvements across the organization
- Develop and support effective communication methods to help employees learn, understand, adjust and grow with the
- Manage the AMS Assessment (Scorecard) and implementation action plan across the organization.

**What You Bring**:

- Engineering degree, preferably Civil, Industrial, Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
- 10+ years of professional experience in construction or manufacturing preferably as an Industrial Engineer or in the continuous improvement function.
- Demonstrated experience leading a Lean implementation in a single large site or multi-site environment as well as deploying Lean in an office or business process environment
- Formal Lean training and extensive experience with Goal Deployment, Problem Solving techniques, value stream mapping, process mapping, running Kaizen events, other key Lean techniques.
- Facilitating the cascading of goals throughout the organization, ensuring alignment at all levels.
- Experience training teams on the development and maintenance of standard work and leader standard work
- Ability to lead Takt Planning projects from initiation to completion, including project planning, resource allocation, and risk management.
- Experience developing and implement training programs focused on lean continuous improvement methodologies

**Why You’ll Love Working Here**:

- You’ll wear multiple hats and get hands-on experience with all aspects of your team’s projects
- We champion Ownership - from your first day you will be involved in shaping the direction of Adi
- We focus on continuously developing our team through education reimbursements and professional development offerings
- We don’t believe in micromanagement - while we are here to provide guidance, we trust you to do your job and achieve success
- Health benefits and personal health spending account

Hey Not sure you align for this opportunity but eager to be part of the Adi Team?

**Apply**:

- Our recruitment team would love to have a chat with you

At Adi, we celebrate diversity are are always looking for exceptional talent who are passionate, forward thinking, not afraid to take massive action and ask questions that elevate the team.



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