Brian Chilton

Global Business Excellence Manager @TechnipFMC

GB

TechnipFMC are a global leader in energy projects, technologies, systems, and services and provide our clients deep expertise across subsea and surface projects. We are embarking on a transformation journey aimed at Learning Lean, Doing Lean with the ultimate aim to Be Lean-A never-ending journey.During this transformation, my team’s role is to help leaders and team members to learn, apply and sustain Lean Thinking & Practice. The starting point is John Shook’s Lean Transformation Framework. We always ask the following questions at every level of the organization: • What is your value driven purpose? What business problem are you trying to solve? Do these align to the company’s True North or direction?• Do you understand how to do and improve the work?• Do you have the right capabilities to do and improve the work?• Do you have the management systems and correct leadership behaviors to support a new way of working?• What mindset and basic thinking do we need to challenge to be successful in our change?This has led to a focus on:1. Developing management systems for performance. Using our Obeya spaces and routines to visualize the work, set standards, understanding if we are winning or losing against those standards, use the appropriate problem-solving methodology to recover performance and prevent repeat problems.2. Developing people problem-solving capabilities. Moving from containment to root cause analysis. Problem solving is the #1 lean skill.3. Developing leadership behaviors. Aligning leaders with the desired behaviors and routines to support their teams with Lean thinking and practice.My role in the last 15 months has been teaching and coaching leaders & team members ranging from Vice Presidents to Operatives, to connect their work to the True North of the business, help them visualize, manage & improve the performance of their work, solve the root cause of problems and helping leaders sustain their new ways of working.

Tynemet College

HND Mechatronics

Northumbria University

BEng (Hons), Manufacturing Systems Engineering

The Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM)

Level 5: Middle Managers, Organizational Leadership

Northumberland College

HNC Electronics

University of Sunderland

Foundation Degree, Leadership & Management