Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a lean manager can go next

4 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a lean manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Lean managers plan and manage lean programs in different business units of an organisation. They drive and coordinate continuous improvements projects aimed at achieving manufacturing efficiency, optimise workforce productivity, generate business innovation and realise transformational changes impacting on operations and business processes, and report on results and progresses to the company management. They contribute to the creation of a continuous improvement culture within the company, and they are responsible for developing and training a team of lean experts.

Also known as lean coach, lean project manager, lean facilitator, lean director, operational excellence manager, kaizen manager, lean engineer, lean expert, process excellence manager, continuous improvement manager, manufacturing excellence manager.

Professionals 56 skills on file 4 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: business consultant, 22%

Fig. 2 · Career map 4 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
business consultant 22% covered business intelligence manager 21% covered production engineer 19% covered manufacturing manager 16% covered lean manager You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 4 nearest destinations from lean manager, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a lean manager already covers. All 4 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 4 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A lean manager needs 30 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • 5S methodology business, administration and law
  • SMED business, administration and law
  • root cause analysis business, administration and law
  • six sigma methods engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • adjust priorities management skills
  • manage production changeovers management skills
  • define organisational standards management skills
  • report on overall management of a business communication, collaboration and creativity
  • sustainable technologies engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • lean manufacturing business, administration and law
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Lean manager is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a lean manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.