LEAN Coach, KONE Scandinavia

The CNE Area Quality team is now looking for an energetic LEAN Coach to join our Central & North Europe (CNE) Area Quality & Environment team, located in Southwest Sweden or Denmark to lead and support all CNE business lines and frontlines in their LEAN transformation. As a LEAN Coach you are responsible for acting as our transformation agent and LEAN Coach providing trainings, mentorships, leadership, facilitating and managing continues improvement and lean rollouts within Central & North Europe (CNE) Area unit’s.</p Lean Coach aims at bringing tangible business benefits and growth by facilitating adoption of lean ways of working. Thereby, Lean Coach can contribute to improving employee engagement, customer value, efficiency and productivity, quality and safety. Lean Coach is responsible for coaching line managers and their teams to implement lean ways of working.

Lean Coach plays a key role in the network that deploys one of KONE’s strategic ‘Ways to Win’: LEAN KONE together with the KONE frontlines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing Lean practices and ways of working that support continuous improvement - focus on daily management, capacity management and reduction of variability
• Able to coach and engage unit leaders, line managers and their teams to apply new, lean ways of working and drive lean mindset change
• Able to connect lean to unit strategic targets
• Responsible for supporting Frontlines in helping to identify performance improvement initiatives using lean ways of working
• Responsible for supporting Frontlines to set up and follow-up benefit realization of identified lean initiatives
• Responsible to projectized transformation activity and ensuring day-to-day progress with supported teams within Local Lean Transformation projects.
• Identify, support and drive leans ways of working in an engaging and empowering way
• Assist in eliminating roadblocks to Continuous Improvement
• Train and coach all levels and functions in lean principles and their application in practice
• Lead and support local Gemba walks
• Support Frontlines Monitor departmental performance and analyze data to identify focused opportunities for reducing costs and improving productivity, utilization, and quality
• Work with cross-functional teams to implement continuous improvement opportunities

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Technical or Commercial Bachelor’s or Master Degree and 5-7 years of related experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role
• Experience in Lean coaching from construction or field operation businesses is an advance
• Learning agility to adapt to all KONE business lines, services and operations
• Skilled in coaching/mentoring in on-the-job application of new skills
• Ability to lead without authority, "servant leadership" mindset
• Empathetic people-person and passionate change leader
• Strong project and change management skills
• Basic knowledge of data analysis
• Lean principles, well versed in both the theory and hands on practice
• Motivational with excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• General knowledge of operation and maintenance processes, costs, quality controls and other areas of frontline unit’s responsibilities
• Strong facilitation skills and problem solving background
• Experience from lean practices and techniques such as Kaizen, time studies, data analysis, capacity analysis and work instructions
• Excellent spoken and written English, native level Swedish / Danish, German is an advance
• Traveling within county 50% and 20% within Europe

We offer

As our new LEAN coach, you’ll get a role in an international working environment with the chance to grow along with your responsibilities. You’ll have a great opportunity to play your part in international growth and to work in an ambitious and committed local and global teams of smart people. You’ll be working in a respectful and professional, yet easy-going atmosphere where individual thinking is encouraged. We truly live through our values: Customer, Care, Collaboration and Courage.

As KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, this is a key role and a great opportunity to build the future cities through improving how people live, work and play in the cities and to help us continue innovating and making magic happen also in the future.

You will be working with highly dynamic teams significantly investing time and effort on how we develop services and solutions. You get a chance to work with and participate in further developing products that are used by billions of users in daily basis. Products that are widely recognized by their quality and innovation.

For further information please contact LineManager Vesa Weiste [email protected]. Please submit your application already today but no later than 29th April 2022 by clicking the button "Send ansøgning".

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