Manager, Lean

🕒 May 15

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $137k - $205.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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Mortenson

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5001 - 10000 employees

Mortenson is a U.S.-based, top-25 builder, developer and provider of energy and engineering services committed to helping organizations move their strategies forward. Mortenson’s broad portfolio of integrated services ensures that its customers’ investments result in high-performing assets. The result is a turnkey partner, fully invested in the business success of its customers.

📋 Description

• Create strong partnerships to establish trust and gain confidence in lean approaches. • Effectively work and build relationships with those of diverse backgrounds and organizational levels, with a focus on Group Leaders and continuing to Group Lean resources, project leaders, field leaders, and the Craft workforce. • Support leaders to establish the right focus and effort on the right things to build culture and drive business outcomes. • Apply and refine Mortenson’s Kaizen-based continuous improvement approach. • Create pull from Group and Project Leaders and advocate for the thoughtful application of the approach with a dual focus on developing capability and improving outcomes. • Partner with Group Leaders and project teams to test, apply and improve the Mortenson continuous improvement approach. • Use the approach effectively in all work environments. Serve as a steward of the continuous improvement approach. • Facilitate effective use of appropriate tools in line with the Mortenson continuous improvement approach. Develop, refine and advance the use of tools. • Maintain consistency and effectiveness of the approach by constantly assessing and improving. • Coach and develop key individuals to create capability and a culture of continuous improvement within their Groups. • Lead by example with ongoing development of your own technical and leadership capabilities to coach and develop others in the application of Mortenson’s continuous improvement approach. • Coach, advise and partner with Group Lean resources (where applicable) and group leaders to propose and deliver the right continuous improvement activities to engage and build people while improving business outcomes. • Engage group leaders to be personally involved in continuous improvement activities. • Effectively work and build relationships with those of diverse backgrounds and organizational levels – starting with Group Leaders and Group Lean professionals.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Construction Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related degree, or equivalent combination of education and technical/field experience demonstrated over multiple years of related work experience • Minimum of fifteen years’ construction or manufacturing experience • Minimum of ten years’ experience in a continuous improvement or other operational functional role (e.g. Quality, Safety, Planning, Process Excellence) • Experience facilitating Kaizen • Expert understanding of Kaizen and how to apply it • Humble learner; strong sense of curiosity and optimism • Proactive self-starter with a growth mindset • Excellent reliability and follow through on commitments • Excellent trainer and facilitator • Strong ability to coach and mentor Group and Project Leaders on how to engage their teams in continuous improvement. Strong ability to coach and mentor Lean professionals in their roles. • Ability to influence through relationship building at group and project leader level • Effectively work with those of diverse backgrounds and organizational levels • Active listening skills and effective communication including an openness to diverse input and feedback • Ability to travel up to 75% to diverse locations in the continental U.S.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug plans that includes no additional cost vision coverage • Dental plan • 401k retirement plan with a generous Mortenson match • Paid time off, holidays, and other paid leaves • Employer paid Life, AD&D, and disability insurance • No-Cost mental health tool and concierge with extensive work-life resources • Tuition reimbursement • Adoption Assistance • Gym Membership Discount Program