Continuous Improvement Manager

About This Role

This Continuous Improvement Manager role provides strategic leadership to support and drive all aspects of Lean transformation within a manufacturing operations environment. The manager will report to the General Manager and implement a strategy to lead change and produce deliverables aligned with business objectives, building and leading a highly competent team of Manufacturing Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to support and drive all aspects of Lean transformation
• Implement a strategy to lead change and produce deliverables aligned with attaining business objectives
• Build and lead a highly competent team with analytic, business, and facilitation skills to challenge the organization and lead it forward
• Implement and maintain World Class Lean, quality processes, and other advanced manufacturing methodologies and systems specifically for Forging, Machining, Grinding, and Thread Roll Processes
• Increase productivity through the support and leadership of people, processes, and technology
• Ensure production equipment is capable and has capacity for growth, involving integrating equipment, people, material flow systems, and information systems
• Develop and maintain in-process quality control systems and standards to ensure product quality
• Drive continuous improvement in labor costs through waste reduction, production efficiency, and operations improvement
• Develop strategies, implement and monitor processes and operating systems for the manufacture of aerospace fasteners
• Evaluate and direct workspace and shop floor utilization requirements
• Work with vendors to determine appropriate material specifications
• Maintain and improve all factory processes and related metrics, including production efficiency, cycle times, capacity, and capabilities
• Provide leadership to technical personnel to ensure ongoing product and process improvements to meet quality, continuous process improvement (CPI), and production goals
• Provide direction to technical support as required for critical process and product issues
• Design processes, evaluate results, and drive solutions to improve processes
• Work closely with production, quality, product engineering, and support teams as required
• Develop and support new manufacturing processes
• Determine capital equipment needs and develop the budget process for equipment, training, software, and equipment installation projects
• Prepare procedures, reports, and plans
• Participate in and lead defect reduction initiatives
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required (preferably Engineering, Business, or Industrial Technology)
• 7-10 years of experience in a manufacturing operations environment
• Demonstrated expertise in implementation of lean principles and improvements
• Experience in demand flow principles and Six Sigma Methodology
• Proven work history in an International Company and in matrix organizations
• Strong project leadership experience with a diversity of team skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior management, teams, and individuals across multiple cultures, disciplines, and geographies
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions