LEAN ENGINEERING (TPS) PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT LEADERS (ALL NORTH AMERICA)

Nationwide recruitment task.  Immediate openings available in Michigan, Orange County, California, Ohio, Chicago, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Texas, Toronto and Montreal Canada.

 OPPORTUNITY

 

Our worldclass client offers new, unique, and exciting knowledge leadership opportunities for experienced Toyota Way product development & R&D engineering project specialists and leaders with contemporary TPS design and realization engineering experience.

 

This is an enormous career gateway opportunity enabling you to leverage and migrate existing technical product development/R&D knowledge and expertise to various industries such as: pharmaceutical, medical products, high-tech, automotive, aerospace, and consumer products industries. 

 

The role is focused on the product and R&D while also simultaneously building a culture of continuous improvement in the R&D groups.  Specific emphasis will be placed on the design and realization stages.  Our clients product development leaders enjoy significant impact on determining what products a company must invest more in and the how to strategically balance those investments in the future state PD lifecycle. 

 

Time spent is focused on lowering cost, improving quality, and dramatically improving speed-to-market.  Speed to market achieved by integrating and maximizing effectiveness in both the product design and manufacturing lifecycle stages.

 

OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS

 

?  Broaden lean product development experience across multiple industries

? Unlimited, challenging, & lucrative long-term earnings potential.

? Acquire ten-years senior executive leadership experience in two.

? Elevate your leadership game in strategic business thinking and structured problem solving.  Work at C level to design strategies that will improve business performance and health.

?  Grow and expand your current business diagnostics and change management experience in product development, supply chain, marketing, finance, distribution, and customer service. 

? Partner with and be challenged by the brightest business minds in the world and establish the type of professional network that will produce your entire career. 

?  Witness your results first hand as companies implement your strategies and realize cost reduction and revenue growth 

?  Gain immediate ownership on your next planned career move (assignments & geography). 

 

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS:

 Currently employed and engaged in lean R&D and/or product design specialist or management role and impacting both design and realization phases of the PD cycle.  Three to ten-years management experience driving the Toyota Production System principals, methods, and tools in a durable goods product-engineering environment is required.  Must provide demonstrated cost and revenue achievements and results.  Thorough knowledge and application of set-based concurrent engineering methods and practices with extensive prototyping at the subsystem level similar to the Toyota Production System Product Development environment is required. Three to fifteen years? product/R&D engineering specialist or leadership experience required.  Experience to include cross-functional (Obeya) action and countermeasure consensus approach for the design and realization stages required. Intrinsic, top-down business problem solving experience in providing strategic guidance to the top management. Technical undergraduate degree required.  MS/MBA preferred. Business acumen commensurate with ?C-level? presentations and discussions is required. Flexibility to travel overnight domestically - frequently and consistently.

 

Since 1995, Value Stream Leadership has helped hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies hire exceptional lean transformation leadership talent. Our search services are targeted at business transformation leaders with deep lean lineage who have driven change on both the systemic and cultural level that is crucial to achieving sustained results, increasing revenue and growing businesses.

For immediate, confidential consideration, please email a Word Document resume to: kristi@valuestreamleaders.com .  All replies are confidential.  Responses must include a daytime phone number (cell phone).  Please visit our website at www.valuestreamleadership.com for more information about our search practice.

 

 

 

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