Industry Practice

Our business is people. If your organization is involved in implementing lean manufacturing, six sigma or lean six sigma in the traditional manufacturing shop floor environment, across a value stream or applying these principles to a variety of departments, we have the expertise, skills, and resources to meet your staffing objectives in our Lean Manufacturing & Engineering Practice. We understand the differences between Lean TPS and Six Sigma tools as well as how to utilize these tools. Recruiting assignments can meet your needs in a variety of functional areas at the Executive C-level, VP, Director & Manager Levels:

Senior Management
Supply Chain Management
Information Technology & MIS
Manufacturing
Engineering

Human Resources
Sales & Marketing
Lean & Quality Assurance
Accounting & Finance

Major lean manufacturing clients currently are in the Food, Automotive, Aerospace and Building Products industries.

Recent Retained & Priority Assignments

  • VP Lean Excellence
  • VP Process Improvement
  • VP Production
  • Plant Manager
  • Lean Sensei
  • Value Stream Change Agent
  • S&OP Change Agent
  • Director Lean Excellence
  • Engineering Program Manager
  • Director Process Improvement
  • Sensei Sr. Manager Lean Mfg
  • Director S&OP

Practice Leader

Name: Deb Lucia
Practice: Lean Manufacturing & Engineering
Phone: 330.666.3354 ext. 134
Email: deb@MRIExecutiveSolutions.com

Deborah leads our Lean Manufacturing Practice. She has over 20 years manufacturing experience in engineering and consulting, focusing on lean implementations with Fortune 500 companies. An accomplished Industrial Engineer and Manager, Deb's background in continuous improvement encompasses both TPS & Six Sigma including Standardized Work, Poka Yoke, JIT, Kaizen, 5S, Cell Design, PFMEA, DFMEA, Kanban, SMED, Systematic Plant Layout & Design - Greenfield & Brownfield, Visual Factory, Simulation, Value Engineering and Value Stream Mapping.

This portfolio of expertise enables Deb to execute search assignments with the efficiency, precision and accountability demanded by the disciplines in which she is skilled. This has created demand for Deb's services to recruit Lean Manufacturing leaders and senior-level operations and engineering executives for manufacturers in the automotive, aerospace and food industries.