Lean Expert (m/f/x)

The Lean Expert’s job is to optimize the production or service process. As such he would need to go beyond departmental borders. The tasks he needs to do start from defining the process and products, studying the current process, and designing production with lean management concepts, and down the line including implementation and operations: 

What you'll do:

• Create a state value stream map which includes all the value streams in the process
• Study the current state map based on all available data
• Create a long-term ideal state map including the product value streams as they would appear in the long term
• Create an implementation plan to turn the current state map to the short term, mid-term, and long-term state map
• Optimise the state map with the use of lean techniques & create an implementation plan
• Lead the Implement the implementation while mobilising stakeholders, including employees of the various departments, suppliers and customers
• Provide leadership in the day-to-day operations of the value stream
• point out possible waste, eliminate the identified waste sources, and create short and middle term state maps which improve the process value. 
• Help to Implement the LEAN culture in the organisation & train all stakeholders and related colleagues of LEAN principles and methods
• Ensures that the stakeholders meet the current production demands, at the same time the changes are improvements are also met
• Take part in NPI Project

Requirements

You are a great match if you have:

• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Commercial and financial awareness
• Ability to manage a variety of cross-functional team members
• A relevant manufacturing/engineering degree is preferred or HND, Btec 
• Master Black Belt in Six Sigma or equivalent qualification
• Experience and willingness for onsite shopfloor Kaizen improvement
• Background in manufacturing and/or engineering environments
• Background in people management and project management
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
• Strong German and English language skills

Benefits

You can work with the most ambitious ultracapacitor experts in the world who can back up your ambition with real-life performance. You can work in a company that prioritizes your results, neither the hours spent in the office - flexible work hours and arrangements are provided:

If you think you can identify with our core values Get Sh#t Done, Push Boundaries, Use Good Judgement and you have the ambition and drive, we want to talk with you!

Our employees exercise a great deal of independence to execute their ideas with professional and motivated colleagues. If you are excited to continue your professional development, we are convinced that working in a global and ambitious technology company shall be a great next step in your career!

About Skeleton

Skeleton Technologies is a Global Cleantech 100 company and a technology leader in high power energy storage for transportation, grid, automotive, and industrial applications.

For us, developing and producing the best energy storage solutions is a means to an end: helping companies to reduce CO2 emissions and save energy.

We work with some of the largest companies in the world from automotive and industrial OEMs to truck fleet operators and aerospace prime contractors. Our products decrease CO2 emissions and fuel consumption, improve power quality, and empower wider electrification of the biggest industries globally.

Our supercapacitor and SuperBattery energy storage technologies, based on patented curved graphene, represent the biggest technological advancement in the industry in the last 20 years and the use of this innovative material provides our products with an unparalleled advantage in power and energy density.

Skeleton Technologies Group is located in 6 different locations: its manufacturing in Großröhrsdorf, offices in Berlin & Leipzig, materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, electrode production in Varkaus (Finland), and engineering in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2024, we will open the largest supercapacitor factory in the world in Markranstädt, Germany.

Last updated on Apr 8, 2024