Chetan Chivate
Director, Continuous Improvement | Business Transformation | Lean Leadership | Strategic Planning | Strategic Alignment | MBA
- Role
- Director of Continuous Improvement at FlexSteel Pipe - A Cactus Company
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chetan Chivate
Results-driven Operational Excellence leader with a remarkable 20-year track record in driving Lean Strategy Deployment at world-class companies. Expertise spans high technology solutions and diversified industrial manufacturing. Proficient in leading successful business transformations across diverse landscapes from enterprise-wide initiatives to functional-level improvements. A proven history of driving growth and cost efficiency, both domestically and internationally across publicly traded and private equity-backed firms and within both manufacturing and service-oriented value streams.Passionately committed to achieving continuous and sustained improvements using Lean and Lean Six Sigma, Process Optimization, Change Management and People Development as cornerstones of progress. Hands-on experience in Toyota Production System (TPS) implementation.
Experience
Director of Continuous Improvement
FlexSteel Pipe - A Cactus Company
Feb 2023 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Create a vision for Enterprise-wide Lean transformation Partner with CEO & Executive team in Sales, Manufacturing, Finance and Field Services. Align Operational Excellence (OpEx) with Business StrategyLead the creation of FlexSteel OpEx Transformation Model to serve as framework for Continuous improvement Drive Lean culture through a structured, data-driven and disciplined approach of Daily Management, Kaizens, Projects and CountermeasuresLead the organizational change management using a structured process proactively collaborating with key stakeholders
Education
The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
2002 — 2004
VJTI, Mumbai, INDIA
Bachelor's degree
1994 — 1998
The Ohio State University
Master of Science (M.S.)
2000 — 2002
Skills
- Lean Manufacturing
- Team Leadership
- Project Planning
- Iso 9000
- Lean Tools
- Six Sigma
- Continuous Improvement
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Process Improvement
- Quality Management
- Change Management
- Manufacturing
- Supply Chain Management
- Product Development
- Operational Excellence
- Value Stream Mapping
- Strategy
- Leadership
- Coaching
- Business Strategy
- Logistics
- Lean Thinking
- Kaizen
- Engineering
- Business Process Improvement
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