Kaizen Promotion Office (KPO) Manager

at  ADI Development Group

Adi Development Group is one of Canada’s leading, most innovative real estate development, construction management and investment companies. With over 4000 units and $3Billion of built value under development throughout the GTHA, We are on an insurgent mission to re-invent the customer experience and to deliver homes faster, better and more cost effectively to our customers. As an Adian you will have the opportunity to shape communities and create lasting landmarks that will be admired for generations. The life-defining work you will do with Adi will directly impact and positively change the lives of our customers and communities we serve. We champion ownership and encourage all of our team members to think and act like owners. Adi is committed to not only develop buildings, but to developing the leaders of tomorrow.
Successful Adians care deeply about their work and commit to continuously learn and develop in their field. Adians think about how every decision they make will impact our customers and go the extra mile to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Our most successful Adians work with a bias toward action. They value experimentation and trying new ways of working to ensure we deliver results to our customers.
Adians offer support to our teammates before being asked. We help each other improve through candid, constructive feedback and empower each other to perform. It does not matter if you are a new or seasoned Adian. We welcome diverse perspectives and encourage each other to speak up. Successful Adians challenge each others’ thinking through respectful and thoughtful debate. When we reach a decision, we commit and move forward together. We are a team. We face adversity together. We learn together. We win together.

• Provide leadership, training and mentoring across the Organization regarding the proper application of AMS (Adi Management System)
• Manage the Lean Assessment Scorecard and implementation action plan across the organization
• Develop Lean Six Sigma Leaders across the organization by procuring training, and applying hands on training
• Develop and manage strategic deployment process
• Build the transformation roadmap for selecting, scoping and completing Lean initiatives
• Develop and manage Adi’s Kaizen calendar
• Facilitate strategic Kaizen events that deliver significant and quantifiable process improvements across the organization
• Develop junior Operations team members to independently facilitate successful Kaizen events
• Lead digitization of value streams/metrics/dashboards/workflows/andon process
• Create multi tier audit, visual management, and andon system
• Drive the cultural change and discipline necessary to create and sustain a successful continuous improvement culture.
• Partner with business leadership in all functional groups to assess current processes and identify process improvement opportunities