Workflow Coordinator WCO Lead

Inspired to grow with your experience, learn and share with new colleagues?
 

Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.

We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.

Huhtamaki’s North America business segment is a leading manufacturer of consumer goods packaging as well as tableware, cups, folding cartons, containers, trays and service ware for the foodservice industry and retail markets. Our product portfolio includes Chinet®, the leading brand of premium tableware. Huhtamaki North America with sales of $1.3B employs approximately 4,200 people in 18 manufacturing locations with its US Headquarters in De Soto, KS. The parent company, Huhtamaki Oyj, has its head office in Espoo, Finland. Huhtamaki Oyj is the #1 globally operating foodservice packaging and molding fiber company in the world.

We're looking for professionals to join our team of approximately 17,000 people in 34 countries. You'll think creatively about making our business and those of our customers' more effective and successful. You'll always be looking for new ways of working. And along the way you'll be making a difference to some of the world's biggest brands, by helping great products reach more people, more easily.

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Job Summary

Workflow Coordinator

Review planned shop orders for the machine shop and optimize the flow of the planned work through machine work centers. Track shop order progression through the machine shop to maximize efficiency. Track customer and machine assembly orders to ensure timely completion. Analyze work center loading, coordinate with planning to balance production and small batch job requirements.

WCO Lead

Develop expertise to lead and facility Greenbelt and Kizan projects. Maintain new project portfolio and facilitate selection and tracking. Assist with other greenbelt projects. 

Develop as a Kaizen skill coach to lead teams required to develop and implement lean methodologies into production process. Lead Kaizen projects for Equipment manufacturing.

Essential Functions

• Utilize planning Tools to organize work flow, Excel, BPCS, Dispatch report.
• Track and update Green Belt Projects in the WCO data base.
• Organize and facilitate Kaizen Lean events.
• Deliver plan to optimize work flow to maximize OT&C and manufacturing Efficiency.
• Effective verbal and written communication. Ability to communicate at all levels.
• Assist organization with project selection and prioritization.
• Hands on participation with Green Belt events and projects. Facilitate team building, organizational leadership, and change management.

Required Job Qualifications

• Skills/knowledge - Communication Skills (listening, verbal, written). Analytical / Research Skills, Computer/Technical Literacy, Flexibility/Adaptability/Manage Multiple Priorities, Interpersonal abilities, Leadership/Management Skill, Multicultural Sensitivity, Planning/Organizing Skills, Problem Solving/Reasoning Skills, Teamwork.

Join us to shape the future together!