Continuous Improvement Leader

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND 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.
• Ledds 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.
• Affords assistance with the maintenance of our ISO system to the appropriate standard.
• 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.
• Promotes use of Lean Six Sigma methodology and tools (DMAIC, Lean, Kaizen, Supplier, and Design for Six Sigma).