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28800 Ida St Valley Nebraska 68064-8016

Why Valmont

We’re Here to Move the World Forward.

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce . Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.

This position is developmental with a potential future as a site leader within Valmont. indirect leadership position is responsible for assisting in the Lean transformation for Operations through influence and relationship, as directed by the Sr. Plant Manager. The incumbent will coach and train managers, supervisors and office & shop floor team members in the applications of Lean tools and processes including Kaizen events and key metrics associated with ongoing Lean improvement. This position will also be responsible for assisting the Lean journey by implementing and utilizing Lean Principles and Methodologies. The role of the site Lean Excellence Manager is to champion the use of effective tools to improve operations, measure success and deliver ever-improving results. This position will build strong relationships throughout the organization to establish trust and credibility in the methodologies of Lean.

Essential Functions:

• Identify, prioritize, and facilitate the execution of a Site Transformation Plan through: Value Stream Mapping, Critical KPI’s, our Lean Assessment Tool, and Strategy Deployment.

• Drive the strategic vision within the business

• Identify improvement opportunity participants

• Provide relevant training and execution leadership

• Lead, facilitate, and identify ownership of action plans for improvement opportunity events

• Ensure sustainment of improvement opportunity events

• Provide specified communication (including visual management) throughout the improvement opportunity events

• Assist and facilitate the utilization of solid problem solving methodology to assist in action item generation for strategy deployment targets

• SQDC to Valmont Standards

• Assist in the execution and evaluation of the Lean assessment

• Schedule, support, and summarize/report the Lean Steering Committee meetings

• Identify barriers to achieving results and provide direct communicate to leadership

• Implement an operations wide 5S program

• Facilitate the celebration and communication of successful improvement opportunities

Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):

• Preferred Bachelors with 6+ years relevant experience or Associates Degree with 8+ years relevant experience or 10+ years of relevant experience

• Preferred facilitation/coaching experience at TPM events, Standard Work Events, SMED events, RCA’s manufacturing and administrative value stream improvement projects

• A solid understanding of Lean principles and methodology

• Demonstrated experience effectively managing others while facilitating and delivering results to a business

• Proficient in Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Share Point, Internet Explorer

• Effective facilitation skill set for interaction with all levels of the organization

• Data Driven decision making

• Respectfully challenges the status quo

• Other professional job duties as required

• The ability to travel domestically up to 10-15% of the year

Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification

• Advanced Degree

• A professional Lean Certification and commitment to continuous Lean learning

Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family’s overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)

• 401k retirement plan with company match

• Paid time off

• Employer paid life insurance

• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave

• Work Life Support

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

• Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

If you have a disability and require any assistance in filling out the application for employment email EEOCompliance@Valmont.com.

Valmont is here to modernize vital infrastructure and increase agricultural productivity, sustainably and reliably. We galvanize steel to last a century with minimal environmental impact. We modernize irrigation to feed a growing population by utilizing the latest technology. We harden the electrical grid to enable the delivery of reliable power to millions of homes around the world. And we help make communities everywhere safer, cleaner and more connected through our smart infrastructure technology.

Valmont serves two primary markets — agriculture and infrastructure — and seven diverse product lines: Utility, Lighting and Transportation, Telecom, Solar, Coatings, Irrigation and Ag Tech. We manufacture products in 85 facilities spread across six continents, and we do business in 100 different countries.

That’s what Valmont does. We conserve resources and improve life, finding ways to make innovation and technology beneficial in the real world.

• That’s the value we add.