Continuous Improvement Lean Manager

What You Will Do

• Drive Strategic Continuous Improvement: Partner with Plant Leadership to align site initiatives with Global Supply Chain and Corporate CI objectives.
• Lead high-impact Lean and Six Sigma projects that deliver rapid, scalable cost savings and operational gains.
• Design and implement innovative engineering solutions to solve complex processing and efficiency challenges.
• Deliver Data-Driven Operational Excellence: Analyze plant performance data and KPIs to identify high-value improvement opportunities. Lead process optimization efforts including time studies, workflow redesign, SOP development, and capital upgrade recommendations to improve visibility, performance, and results.
• Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement: Act as a change leader to elevate CI maturity and embed a problem-solving culture. Lead root cause analysis, Kaizen events, 5S, Kanban, and other waste-elimination initiatives that improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Coach teams and ensure CI tools, training, and best practices are effectively deployed across all levels.
• Enable Sustainable Adoption & Standardization: Develop and execute communication and rollout strategies to sustain improvements. Standardize best practices, strengthen adoption of effective standard work, and replicate proven solutions across sites to ensure consistency and long-term impact.

What You Will Bring

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, operations, manufacturing, or related.
• Experience: 5+ years leading lean transformations. 3+ years using modern operational excellence and continuous improvement methods.
• Knowledge: Skilled with root cause analysis, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, Kanban, Gemba Walks, and TPM.
• Skills: Strong project management, organization, analytical, and presentation skills. Ability to work with competing deadlines and changing priorities.
• Interpersonal: Excellent communication, collaboration, and team building skills.

What We Can Offer You

• Competitive Pay & Benefits: Enjoy a robust Total Rewards Program that includes health, financial benefits, and more.
• Generous Time Off: Take advantage of our generous vacation, sick days, holidays, plus a volunteer day to give back to the community.
• Retirement & Growth: 401(k) match, profit sharing, and abundant growth and development opportunities to help you advance your career.
• Parental Leave: Because we care about your family and your future.
• Compensation: The expected annual base salary range for this role is $90,000 - $115,000. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.