Value Stream Leader

**Value Stream Leader**

**Who we are**:
Atkore is forging a future where our employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders, and communities are building better together - a future focused on serving the customer and powering and protecting the world.

With a global network of manufacturing and distribution facilities, Atkore is a leading provider of electrical, safety and infrastructure solutions.

**Who we are looking for**:
Experience in lean manufacturing or business system-based company is a requirement.

**What you’ll do**:

- Design, develop and implement the Atkore Business System, Lean Daily Management and Strategy Deployment Process.
- Drive Atkore’s Lean Excellence strategy. Operational leadership, resulting in successful safe work environment, exceptional quality performance, lean implementation, productivity gains, a reduction in operating costs, inventories, and lead times.
- Ensure compliance with all safety and environmental requirements.
- Create, implement, and modify when needed standardized work and ensure standardized work is followed by value stream team members.
- Instill and maintain a positive “can-do” team atmosphere within the value stream by holding regular team meetings, assigning tasks to team members, empowering team member decision-making, and coordinating support services.
- Develop and coach team members with necessary skills to identify problems and challenges, perform root cause analyses and implement countermeasures and solutions as necessary.
- Develop and manage supervisors and associates in the value stream, including performance assessment, attendance management, professional development, etc.
- Develop and implement cross training activities to ensure proper function of the work cells and maximize team’s potential.

**What you’ll bring**:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or operations management. MBA or a master’s degree is a plus.
- Three to five years of management/supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment, wire & cable industry is preferred. Including increasing responsibility and leadership of projects and teams of considerable size, scope, and complexity.
- Strong Lean manufacturing background and the passion to grow your lean experience. Proven track record of Lean accomplishments as well as cost out and process improvements.
- Experience and background in accounting, human resources management in a unionized environment, inventory control and strategic planning preferred but not required.
- Experience with JD Edwards, SAP, or any other ERP is a plus.

**Within 3 months, you’ll**:

- Complete your Atkore immersion program.
- Understand how your job will help deliver Atkore’s strategy.
- Understand your team’s strengths and opportunities.
- Gain an understanding of the products and processes.
- Gain an understanding of the training materials and procedures your team owns.

**Within 6 months, you’ll**:

- Partner with Safety, Quality, and HR to investigate and provide corrective measures for on-the-job accidents, injuries, customer complaints, and labor relations issues.
- Take full ownership of the Value Stream’s Lean Daily Management, including Daily Gemba Walks, KPI and KAI boards.
- Fully understand how you and your team impact Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
- Update training materials and procedures, as necessary.
- Identify ways to strengthen the team’s commitment to Atkore’s core values of Accountability, Teamwork, Integrity, Respect and Excellence.

**Within 12 months, you’ll**:

- Be managing an efficient team that delivers Atkore’s strategy.
- Create and update reports, training materials and documentation.
- Have meaningful performance conversations with your direct reports.
- Drive Lean Excellence strategy for your Value Stream. Develop strategies and implement projects to improve Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.

Atkore is a five-time Great Place to Work© certified company and a four-time Top Workplaces USA award winner We’re committed to creating an engaged, aligned workforce driven by a collaborative culture. Our team **strives** for breakthrough results and **stays**focused on being standout leaders. We consistently live the Atkore mission, strategic priorities, and behaviors consistent with our core values.

**Join our team and align yourself with an industry leader**

**_Atkore offers reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function of the job, under the Ontario’s AODA._