The NAM Continuous Improvement Manager is responsible for working closely with regional plant leadership and cross-functional teams to diagnose and resolve issues impacting operational performance.
Requirements
- Performing “Deep Dive” analysis into operational issues to identify root causes alone and in partnership with plant resources including engineering and OpEx teams
- Helping facilitate and promote plant to plant OpEx best practices.
- Proving insights into senior leadership for operational improvement opportunities.
- Resolve operational challenges.
- Performing data analysis using SAP, Power BI, and various support programs to analyze key business metrics and identify opportunities to increase performance.
- Identifying opportunities and supporting plants in transforming the opportunities into executable action plans.
- Supporting performance improvement initiative pipeline growth and health.
- Participating in financial management calls, taking action and leading investigations as applicable.
- Reviewing monthly trends and understanding categories which are over/underperforming.
- Leading regional operational excellence and continuous improvement efforts and providing guidance and expertise on which approach and methodologies to use.
- Partnering with Supply Chain Operations leaders to ensure improvement efforts are completed in a timely manner.
- Directly leading and/or participating in kaizen events and other continuous improvement efforts.
- Teaching, demonstrating and coordinate lean implementation efforts and activities on the manufacturing/production floor such as Kanban, Material Conveyance, Production flow, Super Market design and deployment, Value Stream Mapping, Takt time analysis, Problem-Solving, Standardized work, Set-up reduction, 5S, Visual Workplace, and Error-Proofing, 5S, TPM, SMED/QCO, Visual Factory, Kaizen, Scheduling, etc.
- Assisting plant Lean teams in sustaining gains achieved in Lean efforts.
- Supporting management team in identifying and implementing best practices.
