Director of Lean Transformation, Remanufacturing Operations

Job Description

Job Description

Role Overview

Picture your day : a morning Gemba walk through a high‑mix, medium‑volume transmission remanufacturing operation; a quick review of OEE, takt time, and scrap trends; then facilitating a rapid improvement workshop on a stubborn bottleneck. By afternoon, you’re aligning supply chain, engineering, quality, and warehouse leaders around a value stream plan, coaching supervisors on standard work, and closing the loop on yesterday’s Kaizen actions. That’s the rhythm of our Director of Lean Transformation.

What You’ll Lead

• Build, mentor, and elevate a high-performing CI organization (CI managers and CI technicians / industrial engineers).
• Own the Lean roadmap tailored to remanufacturing flows : disassembly, cleaning, inspection, component repair, reassembly, and testing.
• Deploy and sustain 5S, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, Kanban, TPM, and Visual Management to remove waste and compress lead times.
• Diagnose non–value-added activity across the transmission value stream; drive throughput, quality, and productivity gains.
• Partner cross-functionally (operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, warehouse) to align initiatives with business outcomes.
• Use data-driven analysis to evaluate current processes and prioritize improvement opportunities.
• Plan and facilitate Kaizen events and rapid improvement workshops that deliver measurable results and engagement.
• Coach, mentor, and train team members at every level in Lean principles, tools, and problem solving.
• Define, track, and act on metrics such as productivity, OEE, takt adherence, and scrap / rework rates.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement and structured problem solving.
• Guide change management and ensure clear communication from kickoff through sustainment.

Qualifications Required

Preferred

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

Core Proficiencies

Other Information

This description outlines the role’s primary scope; responsibilities and activities may evolve at any time with or without prior notice.

EEO statement

Dynamic does not discriminate based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. At DMI, equal employment is not only a legal commitment; it is a moral commitment as well.