About This Role
This role leads initiatives to drive a culture of continuous improvement and operational discipline across all manufacturing and support processes. The Continuous Improvement Manager partners with cross-functional teams, leading strategic process improvement initiatives that enhance safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance. This highly visible role relies on leadership and influence rather than direct supervisory responsibility, and the ideal candidate is passionate about transforming processes, optimizing operations, and using data-driven insights to deliver measurable results.
Responsibilities
- Develop, lead, and execute the continuous improvement strategy in alignment with business objectives, working closely with leadership and cross-functional teams
- Ensure strategies are aligned with operational and regional objectives
- Identify, prioritize, and manage continuous improvement projects that deliver measurable results in operational impact to safety, quality, delivery, and cost while removing barriers to improve process flow
- Facilitate Kaizen events, value stream mapping, root cause analyses, and other structured improvement activities to achieve targeted outcomes
- Partner with all departments including Operations, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Sales and Finance to analyze processes, identify improvement opportunities, and implement sustainable solutions
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress of continuous improvement activities and communicate results and recommendations to site leadership
- Be a driver for Daily Visual Management
- Monitor and improve key operational metrics that are linked to business goal results
- Demonstrate results through performance measurement and analysis
- Develop dashboards and performance tracking mechanisms to monitor site improvement progress and provide status updates on CI initiatives and activities
- Lead training sessions and workshops to build site-wide capability in Lean and Six Sigma principles, driving engagement and accountability for continuous improvement at all levels
- Serve as subject matter expert in Lean manufacturing principles and structured problem-solving methodologies
- Influence leaders and frontline employees to adopt continuous improvement principles to drive a culture of accountability
About the Company
OPW has been revolutionizing fluid-handling operations since 1892, serving as a global leader in fluid-handling solutions. The company develops a comprehensive array of innovative fluid-handling solutions, including loading and unloading systems, railcar and transport tank-truck valves, gauging devices, tank-monitoring systems, automated storage-terminal controls, and gas-handling systems for cryogenics and industrial gases. OPW also creates and manufactures touch-free and soft-touch vehicle wash systems, entry systems, and wash chemicals. OPW has more than 2,000 employees with manufacturing operations in North America, Europe, and China, and sales offices around the world. OPW is part of the Clean Energy & Fueling segment of Dover (NYSE: DOV).
