Lean Coach Job Description
Lean coach
provides coaching, Mentoring and Training - Lean concepts as well as tools to make Navigators 4.0 successful;.
Lean Coach Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective lean coach job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included lean coach job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Coordinate the development of VSM's, Kaizen workshops in their respective area of responsibility, as requested
Training team members in Lean principles and tools
Coaching proper use of principles and tools
Facilitate/Coach Rapid Continuous Improvement events (Kaizen blitz)
Training and Awareness Builder
Help organize process excellence community events to share best practice across the business
Help manage the process excellence training infrastructure, including presentation materials
Assess an organization’s ability to change, build an implementation roadmap to scale Agile to the enterprise level, and then use Agile methods to effectively transform the organization and provide ongoing coaching to the teams
Work independently or in a team setting to evangelize agile best practices across the organization
Provide role-based Scaled Agile Framework training for executives (business and technology), Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers (RTE), and system teams
Lean Coach Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Lean Coach
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CSPO, CSM, SPC, PMI, APICS, PMD, IWC, SMS, PSM, CPIM
Education for Lean Coach
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the lean coach job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business, Business/Administration, Operations Management, Technical, Manufacturing, Education, Management, History
Skills for Lean Coach
Desired skills for lean coach include:
Jabil’s software packages
DMAIC process
Kaizen
Data analysis
Diagnostic tools and techniques
Lean concepts
Principles and tools
Statistical process control concepts
Lean Management
Software development lifecycle
Desired experience for lean coach includes:
Assist the Portfolio Management team in portfolio backlog creation and grooming
Train and coach product owners with the creation of portfolio-level Epics and Features, performing continuous prioritization/grooming of both portfolio and program backlogs
Assist in Agile Release Planning
Develop and enable Product Managers as Business Content Authority Experts for the release trains, by facilitating Release Train readiness reviews, backlog grooming activities, and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshops
Implement relevant Scaled Agile Framework metrics at the team, program, and portfolio levels
Mentor and assist the coaching staff in helping the teams with effective backlog grooming sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives (capture retrospective results with an eye on process and practice improvement
Lean Coach Examples
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Lean Coach Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a lean coach. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for lean coach
- Create training on lean management and continuous process improvement for leadership and FAA teams implementing new workflows, processes and procedures
- Work with Quality Assurance representatives to introduce automated testing into the SAFe process
- Provide support for the development and sustainment of the Delivery Center of Excellence (DCE) and manage the Agile Coaching staff
- Provide tools coaching (Rally, VersionOne, VSTS, and JIRA) and develop and foster continuous improvement
- Project management responsibilities to keep Initiatives on track and making results visible through completion
- Experience with leading organizations through a Lean IT transformation effort
- Act as Subject Matter Expert on Lean, Lean IT including methodologies such as Agile, DevOps, DAD
- Supports the strategy deployment cycle including the development and deployment of A3s, the check/adjust process, and coaching leaders on strategic A3 thinking
- Using strategy deployment, advances the organization’s ability to meet & exceed key strategic initiatives
- Supports the development of problem solving thinking and methodology at all levels of the organization
Qualifications for lean coach
- Ensures the implementation of the management system as part of all technical events to support sustainability
- Coaches and develops KPO staff to grow their Lean behavioral and consultative skills
- Subject matter expert available to all lean practitioners to answer questions, act as sounding board, issue resolution
- Expertise in lean, process and operations improvement
- Degree in Mechanical / Industrial / Electronics Engineering or related discipline preferred
- 8+ years of full-time lean/continuous improvement experience with demonstrated expertise in planning and leading successful lean transformations within complex business units
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Lean Coach Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of lean coach. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for lean coach
- Providing teaching and on the job training in methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
- Enabling teams to improve and become autonomous and empowerment, through a deep understanding of people motivations, improving their capability in terms of conflict management, consensus building and collective decision making
- Helping Leaders and Teams to understand value, to identify waste and to apply appropriate tools and techniques to optimize the end-to-end value delivery pipeline
- Promoting the principles of quality and continuous improvement (measurable)
- Advising and facilitating the adoption of engineering best practices or alternatively of agile product development
- Promoting a culture of continual learning and respect, which empowers our people and makes work fun
- Consultation and facilitation of Lean roll-outs
- Coaching Root Cause Analysis
- Perform Value Stream Mapping and Root Cause Analysis
- Leads the team to organize process excellence community events to share best practice across the business
Qualifications for lean coach
- A record of effectively engaging and influencing senior and executive leadership
- Expertise and practical application of Six Sigma
- A proven ability to effectively lead highly cross-functional teams in a matrix business environment
- Experience building a Lean engagement framework within a large organization
- A demonstrated ability to work well with employees at all levels – from hourly associates to executives
- Demonstrated ability to effectively use financial measurements and key performance indicators to manage business processes and results
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Lean Coach Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a lean coach. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for lean coach
- Provide expertise in application of standardized project management techniques and Lean Six Sigma methodology in the analysis, design, prototyping on a high-demand, high-visibility, multi-faceted customer workgroup
- Design, plan and develop technical requirements to accommodate equipment and manpower
- Design change management processes by which FAA leadership may achieve buy-in through a comprehensive approach to engage and gain acceptance for important change initiatives
- Monitor process outcomes of workflows and identify process improvement opportunities
- Plan and conduct structured improvement activities using Lean Six Sigma methodologies and tools
- Ability to critically think, problem solve, and effectively communicate through both writing and speech
- Facilitate Lean Startup methods (Customer Validation, MVP, Pivots, Build- Measure-Learn feedback loop) and conduct/facilitate workshops
- Create tools, processes and a roadmap for lean startup practices
- Mentor Lean Startup champions and create communities of practice around culture
- Host knowledge sharing sessions which inspires Lean Startup adoption
Qualifications for lean coach
- Experience with distribution operations within the Athletic Footwear and Apparel industry is strongly preferred
- Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (current) strongly preferred
- Bachelor's Degree with emphasis in Manufacturing, Quality, Operations or Business preferred
- Minimum of 3 years of practical Lean/ Continuous Improvement experience in applying Continuous Improvement and Lean tools
- Hold CI / Lean Certifications
- Minimum 2 years’ work experience at a manufacturing site preferred
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Lean Coach Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lean coach. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lean coach
- Encourage a culture of innovation and run innovation events globally
- Report to senior leadership updates, learnings, and overall strategy of Lean Startup
- Support prototyping and related tooling
- Work on a Client Business process initiative(s) which is also the pilot utilizing Business Agile principles
- Leverage Client Lean methodology and utilize when working with team
- Interface directly with the scrum team members, representing various business functions, to validate the mapping of current process stage
- Collaborate with cross-functional business and operations teams to solicit input, identify pain points, and confirm process
- Execute established project management disciplines including communication plans, meeting facilitation, risk & issue management, documentation
- Collaborate with scrum team to assess process improvements to achieve business goal
- Drive business solutions in adherence to the boarding strategy and conversion model
Qualifications for lean coach
- Experience with tools such as Rally, Jira, Version One
- Practical Lean/ Continuous Improvement experience in applying Continuous Improvement and Lean tools
- Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new approaches
- Affinity toward engaging with frontline leaders and workers in problem solving, demonstrating a supportive style of leadership, and good inquiry/analytical skills
- Effective communication skills (presentation, effective conversations, written)
- Working knowledge of GSAP is preferred
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Lean Coach Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lean coach. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lean coach
- Produce documentation, guides, and/or training materials in support of the process changes
- Assist with the introduction and roll-out of the changes throughout the life of the project
- Introduce changes to boarding/conversion projects in-flight
- Establish and gain alignment with portfolio leadership for Lean Agile strategies and adoption/maturity roadmap for the assigned portfolio
- Drive end-to-end adoption of agility across the portfolio and work to align agility across intersecting IT COEs and through the respective business partners of the portfolio
- Maintain leading knowledge of industry Lean Agile frameworks and provide guidance on how, where, and why to adopt relevant practices
- With portfolio leadership, establish and facilitate the Tier Review structure and cadence
- Guide teams through practical and pragmatic approaches that increase their rate of maturity and directly lead to improved delivery outcomes
- Establish positive Lean Agile practices including but not limited to distributed team communication practices, story authoring techniques, estimation techniques, good engineering techniques, and interpretation of daily/sprintly scrum reports
- Participate in Lean Agile communities of practice and establish “micro-communities” within aligned portfolio for broader adoption and sustainment of Lean Agile mindset
Qualifications for lean coach
- Deep understanding of common Lean and Lean IT frameworks
- Skilled in use of MS-Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
- Must have several years Lean and Six Sigma experience operating from a strategic perspective in driving tactical and operational improvements
- 3-5 years of prior consulting experience in a management consulting firm preferred
- 5 years of operational leadership experience in a large manufacturing or transactional corporation required
- Tolerance and deep understanding of cultural nuances (Experience operating in the Middle East a plus)