Continuous Improvement Manager

Duration: Permanent Hire

Location: Carson City, NV 89706

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Continuous Improvement related discipline (e.g. engineering, operations management, business etc.)
• Trade school education/certificate preferred.
• 5-10 years of experience leading manufacturing or business organizations in the deployment of Continuous Improvement
• Six Sigma Green Belt - required
• Black Belt - preferred
• Experience in successful deployment of Lean and Six Sigma systems, including: Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen Facilitation, Cellular Flow, Single-Minute Exchange of Dies, Process Flow Mapping, Kanban, Hoshin, Visual Controls, 6S, etc.
• Ability to engage others in, facilitate consensus, obtain buy-in of senior leadership and drive for successful adoption of change initiatives.
• A track record of Continuous Improvement efforts with proven successful sustained outcomes.
• Analytical/critical thinking, information analysis, problem resolution skills
• Ability to engage others and foster teamwork and build strong relationships.
• Ability to understand others, lead teams and develop people.
• Ability to influence and build relationships, motivate, and inspire others through highly effective communication and exemplary presentation skills.
• Ability to achieve business results through direct and indirect interaction, delivering business results under pressure, a champion of performance improvement with a strong customer focus.

Description:

The Continuous Improvement Manager will be responsible for providing technical support and coaching to staff in LEAN processes, driving change management, effectively communicating with staff at various levels of the organizations and collaborating with various stakeholder within Carson City and across other sites to share best practices and achieve target performance objectives.

• Work in collaboration with regional CI leadership to implement the company Continuous Improvement System.
• Work in collaboration with site and regional CI leadership to identify and improve those areas most important to the site.
• Establish CI roadmaps, KPIs, priorities, project goals and assess results.
• Provide regular and ongoing feedback regarding improvement opportunities to Site Leadership and to CI Leadership.
• Coordinate, lead and execute improvement projects and initiatives in order to achieve business needs and objectives.
• Drive CI culture throughout the organization by organizing & facilitating CI events as necessary and ensuring that accountability for CI is held at all levels in the organization and ensuring standards are followed correctly.
• Conduct site evaluations of CI Standards’ proficiency as directed by Site and CI leadership.
• Identify and eliminate process waste by continually driving a cultural shift in the organization with sustainable results.
• Monitor progress of improvement projects by establishing reporting process metrics, and creating business performance scorecards, providing regular business management metrics including cost/performance improvement and ROI.
• Manage the (Lend Forward) program for the site. Train, coach and mentor CI development resources to build capability throughout.
• Development of CI capability within the site through training of all site personnel on company CI Standards.
• Leverage CI skills and talents to assist the organization with capital requests, footprint transformations, capacity planning, and product transitions between facilities.
• Continuous assessment and recommendation to site leadership of people to receive further CI training and opportunities.
• Participation and leadership of company Lean Leadership and Accelerator Weeks.

Employer Info:

Our partner is the only independent company in the world with the ability to cast, coat, and machine a part completely in-house, manufacturing even the most complex parts to spec – and engineering ways to make them better – in our advanced facilities. With unrivaled in-house capabilities and a commitment to innovation, we deliver value to aviation, energy, and military customers around the world. A global technology company with the engineering expertise to deliver solutions that make a measurable difference for our customers.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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