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The Continuous Improvement Manager will be responsible for creating and sustaining a culture of continuous improvement in a dynamic operations environment. The individual will be a hands-on Lean leader with demonstrated understanding of Total Productive Maintenance and/or Reliability-Centered Maintenance, proficient in the deployment of Lean and Six Sigma to achieve results in alignment with business objectives. The individual will successfully collaborate with operations, supply chain, quality, and technical teams to drive operational efficiency and resilience enabling an integrated Lean standardized approach to meet or exceed our customers’ expectations and enable growth. This includes building equipment reliability programs, operational resilience, new capabilities, re-designing complex processes and working on program management efforts, including standardization, infrastructure, and technologies. The Continuous Improvement Manager will be expected to travel domestically and/or internationally 15%.

Primary responsibilities:

• Partner with plant leadership to lead Lean Management System integration through the LEAD for Lean program in alignment with our Global Operations vision, objectives, and metrics.

• Effectively deploy Lean methodologies and tools that directly improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Engagement (SQDCE) results.

• Drive and implement equipment reliability, process, efficiency, and productivity improvements positively impacting the Cost Conversion Productivity (CCP) metric.

• Coordinate with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to develop and improve autonomous, preventative, and predictive reliability maintenance programs.

• Work with cross-functional resources to identify and execute continuous improvement initiatives; leading and engaging participation in WorkOut, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and ways of working to reduce waste, optimize flow and improve yields and productivity.

• Lead and be an active participant in projects that include equipment reliability programs, operational resilience, new capabilities, re-designing complex processes or working on program management efforts, including standardization, infrastructure, and technologies.

• Exercise project management skills towards results oriented delivery and manage the relationship between improvement teams and stakeholders.

• Advance Lean training, and broader organizational understanding of Continuous Improvement.

• Develop results-oriented process-owners with effective problem solving, improvement tool selection and data analysis.

• Oversee delivery of plant continuous improvement performance targets including financial results.

• Perform any other related duties as required.

• Work within formal systems, such as cGMP, ISO, CE to ensure that new processes or process improvements are in conformance with compliance requirements.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required for his position.

• Bachelor degree with 10+ years of experience or equivalent education and years of experience; or, Master degree with 8+ years of experience or equivalent education and years of experience; or, Doctoral degree with 5+ years of experience or equivalent education and years of experience.

• At least one higher education degree in Engineering, Life Science, or Business discipline

• Certifications:Lean and/or Six Sigma Certification preferred.

• Experience: Minimum 10 years’ experience in a manufacturing industry with Lean Manufacturing and/or cGMP experience in a continuous improvement role with applied experience in Total Productive Maintenance and/or Reliability-Centered Maintenance principles.

• Travel: Ability to travel domestically and internationally to conduct training and lean events 15%

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