Lean Practitioner 45
Job Field: Legal Jobs
Location: ALGONA, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time
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<td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">LocationAuburn, WA;Everett, WA;Mukilteo, WA;Puyallup, WA;Renton, WA;Seattle, WA;Tukwila, WA<BR>Security Clearance Required?No Security Clearance Requiredabout security clearance definitions<BR>Position Description<BR>Instructs others in continuous improvement tools and principles. Works with internal or external customers. Develops and updates instructional materials. Seeks out or supports development new tools and techniques. Tailors message to specific audience level. Mentors future instructors and less experienced, experienced practitioners and leaders. Guides the effective application and integration of Lean+ implementation. Leads and facilitates complex and high visibility process improvement efforts. Identifies risks and opportunities for improvement. Develops an integrated strategy and assists with its strategic deployment. Applies and integrates improvement processes and tools across the extended enterprise. Leads the development of new improvement tools. Benchmarks best practices. Participates or leads assessment activities. Leads and facilitates the improvement and standardization of enterprise policies and procedures. Assesses business capability and capacity. Represents the Lean+ improvements function in program reviews.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Competencies<BR>General<BR><BR><BR>[ + ] Change Management<BR>Consistently encourages other project leads, internal employees, and external customers to question established work processes or assumptions, ask ''why'' until underlying cause is discovered, and support continuous improvement actions and alternatives. Consistently remains open to ideas offered by others; frequently supports and uses good ideas to solve complex problems or address complex issues. Recognizes and rewards other project leads, internal employees, and external customers who make useful changes. Actively helps other project leads, internal employees, and external customers overcome resistance to change; shows empathy with people who feel loss as a result of change. Seen as an expert in minimizing complexities, contradictions, and paradoxes or reducing their impact on other project managers, internal employees, and external customers; clarifies direction and smoothes the process of change.<BR><BR>[ + ] Continuous Improvement<BR>Consistently and proactively reviews complex and/or specialized processes to identify gaps between requirements and current outputs within own work group, throughout the organization, and with external customers. Identifies potential conditions that contribute to gaps or key variances; explores complex relationships between conditions and effects; distinguishes causes from symptoms and identifies primary causes. Consistently and proactively generates ideas for solutions; analyzes the effect or impact of each solution; selects appropriate solutions; tests solutions; and gathers feedback from fellow project leads, internal employees and external customers on effectiveness. Reviews impact on baseline measures and modifies solutions as appropriate to ensu </font></td>
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