Continuous Improvement Manager

Essential Duties and Tasks

• Uphold a genuine regard for safety, ensuring employees understand and follow safety guidelines and recognizing individuals for their involvement
• Work closely with enterprise leadership, BU and facilities leaders, and process owners to identify, develop, adopt, and diffuse manufacturing best practices throughout operations and drive accountability at all levels.
• Support facility managers to improve their processes to reduce waste; decrease changeover times; reduce inventory; improve quality, root cause analyses and problem solving; and develop workforce capabilities and skill versatilities.
• Lead change and model desirable behaviors (goal orientation, perseverance, process orientation, follow-through, communication, etc.) to set an example for others to follow.
• Prioritize improvements to help businesses achieve budgeted savings through process improvements.
• Promote strategies and best practices to accelerate to transformation to a quality and continuous improvement culture. Focus on principles, practices, and behaviors needed to transform to an enterprise of Lean thinkers and practitioners.
• Balance quality, productivity, and safety to achieve positive results in all areas.
• Promote the Quality Vision and Quality/CI strategic plan. Help shape/improve the plan over time.
• Interface with internal and external stakeholders to understand and reconcile requirements.
• Facilitate peer networking among the quality/CI managers.
• Implement audits for CI systems.

Qualifications, Education and Experience

• B.S. Degree in technical disciplines and 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Leverage Lean 6 Sigma certification and demonstrate roots in a lean culture.
• Show familiarity and working knowledge of ISO/SQF.
• Have the ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical references.
• Be well-versed in contemporary quality and manufacturing philosophies.
• Display excellent organizational skills and the ability to work on multiple priorities.
• Exhibit outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Be capable of working with customers, vendors, and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Show strong leadership and coaching practices including a hands-on, “Go See” approach to constantly calibrate expectations and mentor regarding improvement opportunities.
• Flexible Packaging industry experience is a plus, but not required.
• Travel is required.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities