Lean Specialist

**Job ID**: 285625
- **Date posted**: 02/04/2025

**Who you are** You have:

- A passion for logistics.
- A bachelor or master degree in a logistics direction (eg Logistics Management, Engineering Science-Traffic-Logistics,...) or an engineering degree.
- Experience with data analysis.
- Experience with a logistics supply chain.
- Strong computer skills (MS Access, MS Excel, MS Visio, ).
- Have strong formal / informal influencing skills to easily build a network
- Experience in Lean Management. ( knowledge of the Toyota Production System as a plus)
- Facilitation skills
- Experienced training skills
- You communicate fluently in Dutch & English, both in writing and orally.
- You are analytical and have a problem-solving approach.
- You think “outside the box” & can translate complex process descriptions in a simple, understandable way.
- You can communicate clearly and build trust throughout the organization.
- You succeed in creating involvement with stakeholders

**Your responsibilities** Within our distribution center in Winterslag (Genk) you are responsible for:

- Coach the team on lean principles, tools, and techniques to foster a culture of operational excellence within the operations department.
- Use root cause analysis and lean process design principles to identify and eliminate waste across the local logistic processes.
- The development and optimization of the local logistics processes.
- Supporting the organization in further automation of administrative and logistics

processes.
- Identifying possible improvements to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
- The implementation of these improvements and projects by working together with managers and specialists.
- Leading or participating in certain projects and working groups.
- Analyzing the logístical processes, writing clear reports & formulating advice in function of productivity, efficiency and cost control.
- Keeping the process documentation up to date (process descriptions, working methods, job descriptions, measurement specifications, training materials, ).
- Eco-vouchers
- End-of-year bonus, holiday pay and sector premiums
- An additional allowance if you come by bike
- Comprehensive hospitalization insurance
- A private accidents insurance
- Pension savings
- We also offer extra-legal holidays, seniority holidays and for full-time colleagues 6 extra days off
- A canteen where you can eat delicious food at very democratic prices
- IKEA Tack Loyalty reward, an additional deposit into your retirement savings based on our global results and your loyalty to IKEA
- ONE IKEA Bonus: an additional bonus based on your shop's results
- IKEA Benefits at work: a portal offer you great discount for well-known stores and brands
- IKEA staff discount 15% on all your purchases
- Team outings & staff parties, because togetherness is very important to us
- A nice extra in case of legal cohabitation/marriage/birth/retirements to celebrate these beautiful moments