Lean Navigator

Company Description

IKEA Industry, part of the Inter IKEA Group, is the world’s largest producer of wooden furniture and is an integrated part of the IKEA value chain. As an IKEA in-house manufacturing business, we create competitive advantages that move and challenge the total IKEA value chain. IKEA Industry has more than 30 production units, across 18 sites in 7 countries: Poland, Slovakia, Portugal, Sweden, Lithuania, China and Hungary. Our operations include sawmills, boards, furniture components and furniture production. IKEA culture and values shape everything we do. Not only do the IKEA values bring us together, they also help us to do business successfully

Learn more about IKEA Industry here https://inter.ikea.net/en/home/IKEA-Industry

IKEA Industry has during more than 10 years used a program to accelerate implementation of the lean production concept IPS (IKEA Production System). The IKEA Production System secures the best practices in performance management, operations and way of working which are implemented in the factories. The transformations are driven by our lean navigators’ in collaboration with management teams and co-workers.

Job Description

About the team
The Lean/IPS team is a part of Operational Excellence at IKEA Industry. The Lean/IPS team mission is to support and strengthen IKEA Industry factories and IKEA suppliers’ factories to continuous improvement by coaching and challenging, using our lean/IPS concept as base.
You will report the Regional IPS Manager and work together with a group of lean/IPS navigators.

In this role you will:

• • Drive shop-floor transformation or similar projects
  • Train managers & operators in lean transformation approach, tools and standards
  • Implement necessary support structures to ensure a sustainable change
  • Support and be a co-pilot to managers during the change process
  • Facilitate focused improvement learning activities and in general contribute to the IPS concept, which is the IKEA way at looking upon Lean. You will also lead, coordinate and work closely with local lean navigators.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are enthusiastic about developing and implementing new ways of working within production and business processes. You are driven by achieving result in collaboration with others and you believe that leadership is a mindset visible in behaviors and actions. You are constantly looking for synergies, support collective learning and continuous improvements. You encourage people around you to achieve better together while nurturing cost-consciousness, reducing overlaps with down to earth approach. You build strong relationships with your stakeholders.
You

• Are lean expert with several years of experience in implementing and managing successful lean projects and/or been a manager within manufacturing.
• Have a proven ability to drive improvement activities, delivering savings and develop lean thinking/concept to all levels of the organization to move them into a self-sustaining mode.
• Have an educational base at Bachelor level or equivalent.
• Have passion for people and are a good communicator with a high drive, resilience and analytical skills.
• Are passionate about IKEA values, our vision and business idea.
• Enjoy working in a dynamic and volatile work environment
• Speak Polish– that is a big plus!

This is an exciting challenge for You who wants to... 

• Lead and drive transformation and change processes across a factory
• Lead challenging projects on our sites across the network and help designing and implementing future operations in IKEA Industry factories, and at IKEA suppliers’ factories.

Additional Information

To reach a full potential we believe it is import with diversity in all our teams. We also believe the work should be challenging and at the same time combined by freedom and space for life. Freedom to develop, learn and find better ways to tackle opportunities and deliver results.

Location for this position is flexible.

The position requires global travelling (+150 travel days yearly).

Do you feel challenged and inspired by what you have seen in this job ad? If “yes!” we would love to know more about you and your motivation for this job! Please send us your application in English as soon as possible, but no later than 31 January.

For job specific questions please contact Regional IPS Manager Marek Stibral at [email protected]