Section Head, Continuous Improvement Job

Rowad is a leading plastic product manufacturer in the Middle East. Our products are exported to more than 30 countries around the world. We believe in business excellence and through innovative manufacturing technologies, we offer the best products at competitive prices to our customers.

Section Head, Continuous Improvement

An exciting opportunity is available Section Head, Continuous Improvement, based in Dammam, KSA who will report directly to Manager, Operational excellence. 

 Summary:

• Deliver innovative and proven ‘Digital Transformation solutions and Operations Excellence methodologies’ tailored to the business needs of all the SBU factories.
• Command on KPIs management, loss analysis in the value chain using OE tools, can design business, plants and departments performance control systems to have robust reporting and escalation system.

In this role, you will be responsible of:

1. Deploy Loss analysis to deliver cost improvement, new products and other initiatives management program to deliver timely and effective bottom-line results
2. Analyses performance data to identify and measure effectiveness of existing processes and recommend process improvements.
3. Partners with BUs and Functions personnel to secure data for identification of improvement opportunities/project definitions.
4. Validates improvement opportunities using appropriate tools and assists in the building the improvement plans.
5. Can design digital systems to track performance through dashboards and real-time informatics in the factories
6. Provides technical support in specialized areas, including process simulation/safety, modelling, process optimization.
7. Applies knowledge of operational environment to identify actions to remove barriers for operational excellence initiatives.
8. Benchmarks and interacts with other organizations to optimize work processes, assists in building BU specific improvement plans.
9. Implements operational excellence projects and initiatives as identified in the plan to meet the objectives and goals set.
10. Maps key processes and facilitate others in process mapping.

Minimum Qualification and Experience:

• Engineering Degree with relevant experience.
• 7 to 8 years’ experience with Degree is desirable

Required:

• Business Performance Management
• Business Improvement Techniques
• Business Process Modelling
• Business Process Design
• Business Statistics
• Project Management
• Systems Thinking
• Business Case Justification
• Managing and Improving Business Processes
• Workflow Analysis
• Analysis and Problem Solving
• Data Gathering, Analysis & Reporting
• Statistical Analysis and Measurement
• Effective Communications