Accordion is hiring a
Associate, Lean Manufacturing

Summary

Join Accordion as a Lean Manufacturing Consultant in the Transformation Practice, providing strategic advice to private equity-backed portfolio companies on various transactions while working in a high-growth, agile, and entrepreneurial environment. The role involves assessing manufacturing operations, identifying improvement opportunities, employing lean methodologies, and training client's operations leadership.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 3-5 years of experience in process improvement
• Experience in implementation and use of The Toyota Production System (TPS)
• Experience with lean problem-solving tools such as Pareto Charts, Fish Bone, Root Cause Analysis, and PDCA
• Proficiency with MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Ability to conduct or facilitate lean events such as 6S, Kaizen, DMAIC project

Responsibilities

• Assess the current state of the client’s manufacturing operations and identify improvement opportunities to reduce costs, increase throughput, and improve flow of the product through the facility
• Employ lean methodologies to drive the identified improvements, including daily management, visual factory, 6S, and lean problem-solving tools
• Train client’s operations leadership on basic lean methodologies to ensure sustainability of improvements

Preferred Qualifications

Previous experience managing manufacturing operations

Benefits

Salary: $100,000 to $120,000 + benefits + bonus