Projektleiter Operations - Focus Operational Excellence (m/f/d)

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Enabler for smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips - work where the morning is created.

About 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured using ZEISS technologies. As the heart of any electronically controlled system, You are no longer to think away from our everyday life – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and solutions for process control, ZEISS enables the production of increasingly smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips – and thus decisively shapes the age of microelectronics and nanoelectronics with its innovations.

For our strategic business unit ''Semicondutor Mask Solutions'', we are looking for a 'Project Manager Operations (m/w/x)' at the Jena site at the next possible time:

Head of Operational Excellence & Logistics Projects in the Operations Division Semiconductor Mask Solution

Identify improvement and optimization potentials in close coordination with the Operations Management Team and plan and implement improvement projects for the business unit

Support for operational excellence management in the new high-tech location Jena

as a representative of the division in Group Projects

Develop lean principles and lean processes in the field and ensure implementation at all production sites

degree in economic engineering, mechanical engineering, production/production technology or comparable

many years of professional experience in the field of operational excellence, production logistics and control or production engineering as well as experience in the lateral management of teams

good process understanding along the value chain in special machine and plant engineering, as well as the ability to develop operational performance management from lateral function into the operation area

strong coordination and team skills as well as leadership potential - experience in shopfloor management and Kanban (agile project management, desirable GPM certification level B/C or comparable)

strong coordination and team skills and leadership potential

good communication and cooperation with various interfaces in German and English

analytical thinking, high understanding and competence ''out of the box'

The body is first terminated for 2 years.

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