Manager, Process Improv, BB

Description

Work within and across the organization at all levels creating value and buy-in as the key change facilitator for the Operational Excellence (OpEx) deployment.

Align with strategic objectives for the Division/Region/Plant and Execute OpEx to accomplish them.

Perform education to site teams and steering committee.

Train teams to utilize lean six sigma tools and methodology.

Serve as multi-site implementation leader.

Serve as multi-site sustainment leader.

Provide and share foundational best-practices.

Ensure alignment to the system across plants.

Execute projects to deliver hard cost savings.

Travel required 70-80%

Deploy and ongoing sustainment of cost take out (CTO) initiatives across the division.

Coach and assist plants in their Zero Loss Thinking and Analysis.

Ensure plants are prepared to build pipelines for CTO initiatives.

Provide on-site coaching to the individuals/teams, as necessary.

Coach/mentor belts and CI teams to achieve savings goals.

Execute Projects to meet division savings objectives.

Teach LSS Yellow & Green Belt programs.

Requirements

• Must be a leader that can facilitate and drive change in a fast paced and “ever changing” environment leveraging his/her strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Must be able to drive improvements in revenue and drive cost out of the business through more effective processes, elimination of non-value added or duplicate efforts, waste, and other related defects in the process.
• Foundational experience in Continuous Improvement
• Black Belt certification required 2+ years as lean six sigma green/black belt with documented project portfolio
• Strong leadership abilities
• Professional maturity – work with all levels
• CTO training provided
• Minimum 5 years of manufacturing and/or Continuous Improvement experience
• Demonstrated ability to coach, teach, and mentor technical and non-technical knowledge to hourly and salaried employees to drive business results
• Prefers leadership of deployment of Lean Operating Systems
• Able to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization
• Proficient with MS-Teams, SharePoint, Mural, QlikView, Power BI, Microsoft Office, Visio and Quantum XL
• Able to perform all essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation