Lead the deployment and sustainment of a company-wide continuous improvement program across multiple plants and a distribution operation. This is a hands-on seat: significant time on the floor coaching teams, setting standards, facilitating kaizen events and making results stick, using Lean, TPM, structured problem solving and digital tools. Manages a small team and reports into senior engineering leadership.
What you’ll own
Lead deployment of the continuous improvement program across every manufacturing site and the distribution center
Drive and sustain autonomous and planned maintenance, focused improvement, centerlining, CILT, 5S, visual management and standard work
Lead cross-functional projects that remove losses in safety, quality, delivery, cost and productivity, using RCA, A3 and 5 Why
Run loss analyses and process observations, build performance dashboards, and validate financial savings
Partner with plant leadership on uptime, changeovers, waste, labor productivity and equipment reliability
Support digital manufacturing tools: connected worker, digital inspections and standard work, dashboards and analytics
Coach supervisors, managers and frontline teams, and build internal continuous improvement capability
Lead kaizen events and manage several initiatives at once, with charters, timelines and reporting to site and executive leadership
What we’re looking for
Bachelor's degree; an engineering or technical major is strongly preferred
8+ years implementing continuous improvement programs; Total Productive Maintenance experience highly desirable
Experience leading major cultural or change-management efforts
Strong people skills: influences teams from the shop floor to senior leadership without direct authority
Analytical, financial and budget fluency; manages several conflicting projects under tight timelines
