Director, Center of Excellence

Director, Center of Excellence
Bluescope Steel

United States, Washington, Kalama

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Salary

$161,613 - $242,419 Per Year

Rank

Director

Responsibility

Functional Tower Lead

Scope

Regional

Workplace

100% in office

Functions

Supply Chain

Reports to
Level

N-2

Travel Max:

0%

Posting Date

04-13-2025

Description

Responsible for leading and managing the Center of Excellence Team for CPNA in North America. This team ensures development and implementation of ‘Best in Class’s Solutions for CPNA that will drive exceptional customer experience and improve productivity, efficiency & connectivity across the value chain (Plan – Source – Make – Deliver – Quality) creating a competitive advantage for the business. The leader will be responsible for 3 pillars – Manufacturing Excellence, Project Engineering &, Advanced Data Analytics

Note: We are unable to sponsor or takeover sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

 

Director, Center of Excellence

Key Responsibilities

Create & Drive Value

  • Execution – Deliver and execute Breakthrough Top Initiatives for CPNA from end to end (Ideation – Assessment – Feasibility – Execution). Responsible for idea generation from across CPNA and funnel the ideas to execution. Effectively manage the Capital process
  • Governance– Define standard metrics and update the business leaders along with the extended Operational Team. Provide support and direction on organizational change management.

Build Capabilities

  • Manufacturing Excellence – Utilizing the handbook ME BlueScope Way continuously improve manufacturing processes, systems, and operations to achieve the highest levels of quality, efficiency, productivity, and sustainability.
  • Support – Provide skills assessment & develop a capability improvement matrix to that will upskill our maintenance and ops teams. Enabling our workforce to work better, smarter and more productively

Educate, Engage and Empower

  • Best Practices – Continue to benchmark by identifying the latest technologies across the industry. Establish or provide standardized approaches/processes & knowledge centers.
  • Training – Provide e-learning curriculum, classroom training, certification programs. Deliver shared services, policies, training, templates, communications, etc.

Project Management

  • Lead cross-functional teams in delivering key projects within time, cost, and quality constraints. Ensured that projects met the objectives set by stakeholders and provided regular progress updates.

Change Management

  • Be a change enabler and effectively communicate and engage with stakeholders across the organization

Qualification & Requirements

Skills & Competencies

  • High energy, results-oriented individual who makes a difference – takes initiative, makes things happen, accepts accountability, and has a “can do” attitude; has a sense of urgency.
  • Creative and flexible in attitude and style to adapt to new situations in a rapidly changing, dynamic environment.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with a proven ability to create and maintain positive working relationships with vendors, suppliers, shippers & customers.
  • Strong supervisory and leadership skills; ability and desire to promote teamwork and develop employees. Able to lead team members without being the direct supervisor.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of market trends; ability to use market data to define organizational direction; ability to anticipate and respond to market challenges.
  • Proven ability to manage the process of product supply and source of risk in end-to-end supply chain

Core Competencies

  • Demonstrate solid leadership skills to motivate others
  • Possess business acumen
  • Be a sponsor and an agent of change and risk management
  • Execute on deliverables in a timely and accurate manner
  • Ability to influence team members toward a common SMART goal in:
  • Matrix organization
  • Project management
  • End to end expertise in Supply Chain
  • Management of leaders
  • Creation of content through architecting solutions
  • Regulatory and Compliance
  • Sustainability
  • Inventory Accuracy
  • Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently
  • Make decisions based on facts and data
  • Deep Lean expertise

ools Required

  • Manufacturing Schedules
  • Safety Metrics
  • SAP
  • Microsoft Office Products
  • Production Plan
  • Maintenance Schedules

Education & Experience Qualifications

Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering or related degree and experience. Masters or MBA preferred

  • 15 or more years experience in Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Quality
  • 15 or more years experience of managing and developing a team
  • Data driven with attention to detail
  • Ability to simplify complex tasks through process and standards
  • Self-Starter with an entrepreneurial approach to business
  • Strong communication skills
  • Deep competence and experience W Lean, Six Sigma & Driving cost and optimization projects
  • Have an executive presence and be able to present and influence key leaders in the business

Benefits

No information available.

Company Profile

Bluescope Steel
Industry

Metal & Mineral Manufacturing

Revenue

$805.7M

Employees

16,500

Fortune 500 Rank

NA

Global 500 Rank

NA

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