Project Description
EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Director, Lean Enterprise Continuous Improvement
Director HR, China Operations
Director Manufacturing, China Operations
Director Supply Chain Management, China Operations
SECTOR
Industrial
International
Technology
Rockwell Automation is a Fortune 500 industrial automation company focused on delivering global power, control and information solutions. These comprehensive automation solutions help customers meet productivity objectives by bringing together world-class brands in industrial automation products and services. The company is financially and strategically focused on helping manufacturers address growing competitive pressures to reduce costs, conserve resources, improve productivity, and reduce time to market for goods and services. Leading brands and strategic partnerships uniquely qualify our client to deliver industry solutions around the world.
The company’s Control Systems Group is headquartered in Milwaukee and organized into three operating units: Components & Packaged Applications, Automation Control & Information, and Global Manufacturing Solutions. Each operating business, headed by a Senior VP (who reports to the Group President) provides customer solutions for integrated sequential, motion, drive system, process and information applications. Control Systems has the industry’s largest installed base of plant floor automation equipment and expertise. It helps industrial customers improve productivity and lower total cost of operation through a combination of value-added services and world-class product. The business is backed with a deep compliment of strategic partnerships and solutions providers around the world. Control Systems operates plants in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America, with operations in 80 countries (over 400 locations) staffed by 15,000 dedicated employees.
In order to advance its leadership position in this competitive and cost-focused market, our client has been aggressively pursuing a number of critical initiatives, including a major focus on implementation of LEAN MANUFACTURING AND LEAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE processes and systems.
We seek an aggressive, entrepreneurial and “lean thinking” Director, Lean Enterprise Continuous Improvement to take key strategic and tactical responsibility for continuous improvement activities across the Control Systems organization.