Continuous Improvement / Technical Training Lead

What You’ll Do

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives while partnering with plant leadership to build technical capability and close skill gaps across the workforce.
• Facilitate Lean initiatives (5S, Kaizen, Kanban, PDCA).
• Analyze data to identify waste, bottlenecks, and process improvement opportunities.
• Develop and implement standard work and visual management systems.
• Drive improvements in safety, quality, throughput, and cost performance.
• Conduct regular shop floor observations across shifts to identify gaps.
• Lead root cause analysis (5-Why) and structured problem solving.
• Track and report progress against KPIs and savings targets.

Technical Training & Development (Secondary Focus)

• Assess workforce skill levels and identify training and development needs.
• Support onboarding and training programs for new hires and existing employees.
• Partner with supervisors and QA to improve job knowledge, certifications, and safety behaviors.
• Coach employees on best practices, work processes, and hazard awareness.
• Help develop and support train-the-trainer and mentoring programs.
• Align training initiatives to operational metrics (TRIR, DART, turnover, productivity).
• Collaborate with corporate resources to deploy training programs and tools.

What Makes This Role Different

• Dual Impact Role – Improve processes while developing people.
• High Visibility – Influence performance across all levels of the plant.
• Career Growth – Designed as a 2–3 year development path into leadership.
• Hands-On Environment – Significant time on the shop floor driving real change.