Business Excellence Manager

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. 

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Business Excellence Manager located in Guadalajara, North Campus.

The Business Excellence Manager role involves providing direct contribution to teams according to established policies and goals. Demonstrates skills in guiding and/or facilitating.

What a typical day looks like:

• Act as a first point contact to the customer internal and external.
• Lead and support New Product Introduction (NPI) processes, leveraging 3P (Production Preparation Process) methodologies to optimize and to ensure readiness for large-scale manufacturing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize assembly processes, wiring, and routing, ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards.
• Oversee mechanical assembly and metal fabrication for large components, racks, and automotive parts.
• Implement continuous improvement strategies in automotive industry environments, focusing on large-scale assemblies and complex structures.
• Coordinate activities of implementation team.
• Act as a change agent and drive lean and six sigma activities as defined in the GBE A3.
• Applying and deploying Flex Lean Enterprise Values across the entire organization.
• In charge of eliminating waste and creating value by reducing variation in the processes to achieve sustainable results throughout the organization and segment.
• Utilize Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) techniques, initiate process improvements, cycle time reductions, cost reductions and other activities aimed at reducing/eliminating non-value-added activities in the process.
• Drive and share the best identified practices according to the agreed timelines.
• Create and validate processes/standards based on standard work and BPs.
• Conduct Lean and Six Sigma training and accelerate the proliferation of a Lean Continuous Improvement culture throughout the organization by co-guiding and co-facilitating Lean deployment
• Perform assessment of CIMT Operation/Supply chain/Office and drive initiatives to close gaps.
• Diligently participate in the selection and executions of Lean and Six Sigma projects.
• For assigned special project/segment/customer priorities to formulate and propose strategy of Lean 

Transformation. Coach and facilitate Lean Transformation activities through Kaizen workshops and Small Group Activities.

• Incentivize participation in the training of Flex Employees, Suppliers, and Customers.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Experience in manufacturing or automotive industry required.
• Experience in assembly processes, wiring, and routing within industrial or automotive sectors.
• Knowledge of mechanical assembly and metalworking techniques for large components.
• Familiarity with racks and large parts manufacturing in automotive or related industries.
• Strong background in lean manufacturing, NPI, and 3P implementation.
• Strong lean and six sigma methodology experience.
• Demonstrates expert functional, technical and/ or people management skills.
• Able to build strong relationships to customers.
• Lead projects and business initiatives.
• Ability to resolve complex objectives.
• Strong continuous improvement of knowledge.
• BA/BS degree.
• Preferrable experience using new technologies in data science (Power BI, Tableau).
• Basic finance knowledge.
• Related quality or engineering experience.
• Advanced English
• Advanced MS Office.
• Demonstrate ability to collaborate in partnerships.
• Black belt certification is preferred.

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Competitive Salary.
• Life & Medical insurance.
• Christmas Bonus.
• Food Coupons.
• Saving Fund.

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