Continuous Improvement Manager

Job Description

Title - Corporate Lean and Six Sigma Black Belt

Location – Burlington, WA / Fort Mill, SC

Duration : Full Time Role

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Facilitate and support Annual Hoshin Planning processes at site and functional level.
• Facilitate annual Value Stream Mapping and Value Chain Mapping events to support Annual Hoshin and Budgeting processes.
• Identify teams, project opportunities, actions, required training, and deployment methodologies resulting from Annual Hoshin Planning, Value Stream Mapping and Value Chain Mapping events.
• Develop, coordinate and manage Lean & Six Sigma training plan to support annual project and kaizen targets.
• Assist sites and functional teams in integrating resulting initiatives and project decks to build the Annual Budget Plan.
• Lead Lean & Six Sigma Black Belt high-impact projects (~ $500K+ / project) identified during the Annual Hoshin Planning process.
• Facilitate deployment of Production System (SPS).
• Drive SPS KPIs and goals across the enterprise.
• Establish and deploy Lean & Six Sigma Program maturity growth Road Map.
• Drive and deploy the Lean & Six Sigma program through x-functional and x-site collaboration effort.
• Benchmark Best-In-Class metrics and performance on Lean & Six Sigma within our industry and outside our industry.
• Define Lean & Six Sigma Program KPIs, goals and metrics.
• Manage Lean & Six Sigma project decks and funnels to ensure company’s Lean & Six Sigma operational and financial goals are met.
• Assist site management and personnel with RCA (Root-Cause Analysis) and implementation of CA (Corrective Action) of PK, A3 and Apollo processes.
• Support Supplier Quality and Customer Quality Program Managers with RCA (Root-Cause Analysis) and implementation of CA (Corrective Action) of PK, A3 and Apollo processes.
• Support site management and personnel in improving utilization of MES and other automated data collection and analysis systems.

Core Competencies :