Maintenance and Operational Excellence Consultant

at  USC Consulting Group LLC

POSITION OVERVIEW:

USC Consulting Group is a forward moving consulting firm with a reputation of excellence since 1968 that partners with clients to provide greater value and competitiveness within their businesses. We provide multiple skills and business techniques such as: systems solutions, process improvement, quality function deployment, continuous flow manufacturing and integrated supply chain management.
A Senior Project Consultant with a maintenance focus, will work on a team and be assigned to a project to work at one of our client locations (you will travel from your home base anywhere in the U.S. or Canada) and benefit from the extensive experience of the members. You will learn the needed skill sets and business techniques required to be successful in our business as a business architect and change practitioner that brings the right solutions to each project. The specific position responsibilities are within the scope of project management with a focus on maintenance which relates to workflow analysis, planning, change process and systems implementation. We work closely with our clients in a partnership to achieve measurable results in process flow, productivity improvement as well as performance management.

TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE:

• Advanced computer skills; including MS Office Suite.
• Fluency in MS Project and or Primavera (P6), Minitab statistics package, Power BI and/or Tableau preferred.
• Prior experience with Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and/or Work Order management tools preferred. SAP experience preferred.
• Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System), Maximo experience preferred.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Knowledge of maintenance processes and practices in a dynamic work environmenT
• Be well versed in operational excellence methodologies, be passionate about clients, and dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions (Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and APICS certifications are a plus)
• Training in a formal process, organization, change, and/or learning improvement methodology at an enterprise level client or employer.
• Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills to effectively communicate and build relationships with a broad spectrum of audiences at all organizational levels. Translating technical concepts into broadly understood terms is an essential skill.
• Performance driven and self-motivated.
• Be comfortable functioning as either an individual consultant or in a team-based role on a broader engagement, with a focus on delivery and implementation.
• Have demonstrated flexibility and the willingness to tailor your approach specifically based on USC’s methodologies and clients’ needs.

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE:

• A bachelor’s degree in a science or engineering discipline, with a preference for industrial engineering, operations management, supply chain management or analytics
• 2 - 5 years of professional experience, with at least 2 years in a manufacturing, mining and metals, or aviation environment preferred.
• Have a valid driver’s license, and a Canadian or US Passport.
• Ability to travel a minimum of 5 nights a week.
• Fluency in multiple languages is an asset.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to present, observe, and listen in multiple environments (some of them loud/high volume). The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch as well as standing/walking for multiple hours a day.
The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Long periods may be spent looking at a computer screen.
Must be able to spend extended periods of time in-flight and travel long distances.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The majority of our business comes from production manufacturing, maintenance and mining companies. As a result, while performing the duties of the job, you will be in and around large and/or moving equipment and experience a wide range of temperatures and climates. USC takes every precaution and measure to ensure a safe and reasonably comfortable work environment, but as a “boots on the ground” consulting company, employees are expected to interact with clients in and around their space of work.
The noise level in the work environment is occasionally loud and employees may be required to live in rustic conditions.
We are a Drug-Free Workplace
This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties as instructed to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

• Participate in maintenance focused project work that will help to design effective processes, organizations, and change and learning programs to drive real business benefits.
• Executing the client’s goals and objectives.
• Install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair industrial equipment and systems.
• Changing behaviors through daily side by side coaching.
• Removing barriers and creating support from middle and senior management.
• Confronting issues and providing appropriate feedback.
• Giving frontline supervisors and their employees a voice.
• Identifying root cause issues and needed corrective actions.
• Unlocking ideas for improvement.
• Helping frontline supervisors and managers become proactive vs. reactive.
• Changing cultures for sustainable results.
• Implementing a proven management operating system.
• Deliver trainings and workshops with a maintenance focus.
• Understanding and presenting the appropriate metrics and data.