Continuous Improvement Leader

This position will deliver continuous improvement training and activities throughout the plant while serving as a Subject Matter Expert on Continuous Improvement. Will lead and grow a culture of Continuous Improvement and its activities at the plant. Will facilitate projects aimed at generating Continuous Improvement techniques, cost reductions, and process performance improvements. Provides efficient leadership and cost-effective integration of Continuous Improvement, creating operational excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitates Continuous Improvement projects, cost reductions, and process performance improvements.
• Maintains CI implementation schedules for assigned projects, progress updates as required, and most importantly, provide documentation that demonstrates the direct link between CI implementation and process and Plant Operations improvements.
• Provides CI training and coaching at all levels of the Plant.
• Participates in and leads teams aimed at the resolution of quality issues and concerns.
• Supports production control, material control, material planning departments in improvement projects relating to scheduling inventory management and raw material flow and tracking.
• May support prototype and pilot runs to address design and process feasibility concerns from a departmental aspect.
• Interfaces with plant engineering on projects addressing staffing, manpower, time and capacity analysis.
• Generates, provides and participates in department specific training needs.
• Calculates cost reductions and/or various analysis to determine optimal problem-solving method.
• Teams with the Plant Controller to document savings and profit results of continuous improvement activities.
• Accountable for tracking all CI Projects and reporting progress to plant staff.
• Completes and or coordinates work sampling and or time studies to develop production standards for products.
• Assists in monitoring department equipment (OEE) and interface with Maintenance department to identify maintenance, repair and TPM.
• Works with process owner to develop value stream maps for each process and each value stream family within the facility.
• Utilizes the concepts of continuous improvement and cost reduction in the execution of the job function.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in business administration, finance, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
• Quality improvement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma
• Continuous Improvement certification preferred
• 3-5 years experience in Manufacturing Operations.

Soft Skills:

• Passion for Continuous Improvement
• Ability to communicate with all levels within the organization
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Predisposition to teach leaders a zero defect mentality
• Ability to weigh and manage priorities
• Skilled at synthesis and analysis
• Detail oriented
• Flexibility and diplomacy when dealing with staff and coworkers
• Ability to make decisions as well as influence decision-making
• Strong work habits focusing on safety, quality, and productivity
• Organizational skills
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to effectively communicate issues and ideas with peers and with management.
• Ability to build effective working relationships throughout the organization.
• Ability to facilitate meetings with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to operate independently within a tight deadline environment.
• Is a high energy self-starter with a resilient, can-do attitude.
• Project management
• Customer service

Hard Skills:

• Continuous Improvement
• 5S
• Lean Manufacturing
• Kaizen - Leading events
• Lean Six Sigma
• Root Cause Analysis
• Value Stream Mapping
• Proficiency in commonly used and specialized software
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Suite, including advanced skills with Excel
• Demonstrated ability to work in high paced and changing environments
• Experience in identifying areas of improvement.