Continuous Improvement Leader

Shurtape Technologies is a leading manufacturer and marketer of adhesive tape with facilities worldwide, offering brands including Duck®, FrogTape®, Painter’s Mate®, Shurtape®, T-Rex®, Kip®, and Pro Tapes®. The company emphasizes curiosity, creativity, health, safety, environmental responsibility, and a growth mindset.

About the role

The main responsibility of the position is to support the leadership team in achieving cost, revenue, service, and quality objectives via progression towards world class levels; and developing a sustained Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement culture.

Responsibilities

• Provides project leadership regarding cost savings, quality improvement, service improvement, and new product development projects.
• Collaborates with Plant Management, Quality Management, Product Management to identify, reduce, and eliminate chronic sources of customer complaints, raw material quality issues, waste/scrap, and resolve production deficiencies.
• Works closely with Executive and Plant Leadership to select appropriate projects.
• Leads and facilitates improvement projects, utilizing Lean Six Sigma methodologies.
• Conducts statistical assessments with appropriate follow-up work to reduce variability and/or achieve OEE targets.
• Provides summaries, conclusions, and presentations related to project completion and findings.
• Creates key process flows and/or value stream maps.
• Develops recommendations and implements improvements to support corporate and plant goals, requirements, and sustainment of improvements.
• Acts as a technical resource for key products and processes.
• Assists with the maintenance of our ISO system to the appropriate standard.
• Support for ISO quality systems at the corporate and/or plant level.
• Initiates and revises work instructions.
• Conducts customer complaint investigations.
• Refinement of our testing frequencies and methods based on customer needs and statistical analysis.
• Gages R&R studies.
• Promote use of Lean Six Sigma methodology and tools (DMAIC, Lean, Kaizen, Supplier, and Design for Six Sigma).

Benefits

• A company that truly values your contributions
• A place where you can grow, make an impact, and be part of something meaningful
• A focus on excellence and continuous improvement, ensuring we deliver top-quality, reliable solutions to our customers
• An environment where employees are encouraged to bring their best ideas forward and adopt a growth mindset
• Commitment to health, safety, and environmental responsibility with positive impact on communities and the world
• Socially and environmentally responsible manufacturing processes that protect the communities in which we operate