Automotive/ Industrial Capacity Management Consultant
Position Type: Independent Consultant (1099 or LLC)
Locations: Continental United States
Travel Required: 85-100%
Industry: Automotive/Aerospace/Medical Technologies
Our consultants are industry experts, providing tactical operational wins via extensive industry knowledge, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, and a passion for making hands-on changes to warehouse and production floors rapidly.
Responsibilities:
- Leading capacity planning activities with the goal of optimizing delivery against operational requirements to inevitably improve manufacturing efficiency and costs.
- Overseeing resources to define an Organization's Operating Limits.
- Troubleshooting complex production issues and relieving bottlenecks that impact plant capacity.
- Analyzing and refining current systems and methods to continually improve capacity plans ensuring the organization can best anticipate customer needs.
- Assessing existing capacity and developing forecasts based on future plans for demand.
- Monitoring any plan deviations and analyzing the financial impact involved.
- Observing current manufacturing process in order to identify capacity restraints.
- Leading continuous improvement projects in order to optimize capacity and ensure the best ROI.
- Performing calculations to estimate job requirements in terms of labor, tools, materials and resources .
- Building Forecasting Models to be presented out to internal stakeholders.
- Initiating and leading Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) projects on the Plant floor to optimize current processes.
- Working with internal teams to analyze current practices and procedures and implement necessary changes in order to ensure accurate planning is completed.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of hand-on Capacity Planning experience within an Automotive OEM, Tier 1 supplier, or Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing plant.
- Strong expertise in Capacity Planning for entire organizations.
- Expertise in Statistics and Demand Forecasting highly preferred.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills and ability to communicate effectively with client customers at all organizational levels.
- Strong oral and written communication and documentation skills, including presentation skills (MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, etc.)
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
- Experience leading small teams with success delivering on Capacity planning projects or programs.
- Bachelors’ Degree, preferred.
- Previous Consulting Experience Highly Preferred