Value Stream Manager

**Job Title: Value Stream ManagerLocation: Cleveland, OHBusiness Unit: Team Wendy** **About Avon Technologies:** We are a world leader in protective equipment, with a reputation for innovative design, high-performance quality and specialist materials expertise. Our two brands, Avon Protection and Team Wendy, supply our respiratory and head protection portfolio to customers across the globe from our manufacturing sites in the UK and North America. With over 900 talented people our shared purpose and core beliefs are to be #FIERCE about Protecting Lives. It's why we come to work - and it's what motivates us, every day, to do the best work we can. **Purpose of Position** The Value Stream Manager (VSM) is responsible for leading the end-to-end performance of a defined value stream converting materials and ensuring safe, predictable delivery, strong quality outcomes and improving cost and cash performance. Acting as a mini-CEO for their stream, the VSM owns “SQDIP” (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory and Productivity) performance and leads cross-functional problem solving across Operations, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain and Customer Service to remove constraints, reduce variation and improve flow. This role sets the tone for operational discipline and continuous improvement through daily management, leader standard work and regular gemba, while building a high-performing team of supervisors and frontline leaders that can execute reliably without constant escalation. **Role Purpose** The Value Stream Manager is accountable for: - Owning end-to-end SQDIP performance for the value stream, carrying out root cause analysis and taking corrective action where targets are at risk - Leading and developing supervisors and frontline leaders to build stable, capable execution and a strong safety and quality culture - Setting and running disciplined daily management (Tier 2/Tier 3), ensuring issues are surfaced, owned, escalated and closed with clear countermeasures - Driving continuous improvement and waste elimination and ensuring sustainment of gains - Managing value stream resources (people, materials, equipment) to meet demand, improve flow and control cost, inventory and working capital - Owning financial and operational performance for the value stream, partnering with Finance on budget and delivery of commitments **Decision & Escalation Scope** The Value Stream Manager is expected to: - Decide: required staffing levels for the value stream; line changeovers; and line stoppages where safety, quality, delivery or equipment integrity is at risk - Decide: hiring of Supervisors; approval of Process Change Requests (PCRs); and spend within delegation of authority (including in-budget and out-of-budget thresholds) - Consult: Director of Operations on reactive people needs, line and project prioritization, performance issues, and CI opportunity prioritization; Director of Operations/HR on shift pattern changes, adding shifts or adding lines - Consult: Master Production Scheduling on the production plan; Buyer/Planner on inventory needs and production planning; SIOP on lead-time requests and demand/supply actions; Engineering on work instruction changes; CI on standard work and SWIP changes; Quality on interpretation of quality standards; Finance/Operations leadership on budget and major trade-offs - Inform / Escalate: Escalate barriers to Mission Control / Tier 3; inform Finance on missed goals; inform Mission Control and support functions of planned overtime; inform Director of Operations of people, maintenance, planning/material shortages, safety and quality issues; inform VP Operations of near misses and reportable incidents - Boundaries: Does not hire or fire direct labor (delegated to Supervisor), does not direct other value streams, does not set/waive quality standards, and does not change product/process requirements without following the formal approval/change process **Key Accountabilities** End-to-End Delivery & F…