Regional Continuous Improvement Manager – Polymer & Packaging
Job in
Brecksville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 44141, USA
Listed on 2026-09-01
Listing for:
Sherwin-Williams
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-01
Job specializations:
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Business
Change Management, Operations Management -
Management
Change Management, Operations Management, Project & Program Management
Job Description & How to Apply Below
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:
- Plan and execute regional strategy to achieve continuous improvement goals.
- Champion OPEX Standards and ensuring continuous improvement throughout region.
- Identify and lead portfolio of strategic initiatives and projects that positively impact business results.
- Develops and maintains relationships with internal or external partners to advance continuous improvement methodology and deployment.
- Propose and meet OP16 regional targets.
- Propose and meet regional strategic initiative targets (Opportunity Cost, Productivity, Hidden Factory, Capacity, Sustainability, Future of Work, etc.)
- Collaborate with regional finance to identify high value opportunities, align resources and approach to impact positive results.
- Responsible for supported region’s project portfolio
- Lead, execute, and support continuous improvement projects that deliver business results.
- Coach site leadership and site continuous improvement leaders on effective deployment of Lean Six Sigma tools.
- Identify and develop regional talent to drive a continuous improvement culture.
- Champion projects with high level of ambiguity.
- Guide and direct regional Black Belts, Green Belts and Champions in effective leadership, project execution and timely certifications
- Facilitate the validation of performance/financial results and long-term sustainability of the region’s continuous improvement projects.
- Facilitate monthly calls to ensure all site project leads are providing regular status updates and progressing towards project completion.
Regional Continuous Improvement Project Planning and Execution
- Plan and execute regional strategy to achieve continuous improvement goals.
- Champion OPEX Standards and ensuring continuous improvement throughout region.
- Identify and lead portfolio of strategic initiatives and projects that positively impact business results.
- Develops and maintains relationships with internal or external partners to advance continuous improvement methodology and deployment.
- Propose and meet OP16 regional targets.
- Propose and meet regional strategic initiative targets (Opportunity Cost, Productivity, Hidden Factory, Capacity, Sustainability, Future of Work, etc.)
- Collaborate with regional finance to identify high value opportunities, align resources and approach to impact positive results.
- Responsible for supported region’s project portfolio
- Lead, execute, and support continuous improvement projects that deliver business results.
- Coach site leadership and site continuous improvement leaders on effective deployment of Lean Six Sigma tools.
- Identify and develop regional talent to drive a continuous improvement culture.
- Champion projects with high level of ambiguity.
- Guide and direct regional Black Belts, Green Belts and Champions in effective leadership, project execution and timely certifications
- Facilitate the validation of performance/financial results and long-term sustainability of the region’s continuous improvement projects.
- Facilitate monthly calls to ensure all site project leads are providing regular status updates and progressing towards project completion.
- Propose and meet regional standard work goals.
- Coach site leadership on effective execution of Standard Work requirements
- Certify site compliance to Standard Work program and audit sites for compliance to certifications already achieved.
- Train site teams on all aspects of Standard Work (Takt, SOP, Kaizen and 5S)
- Promote a Kaizen Culture throughout the region
- Lead and participate in Kaizen events at sites; conduct Kaizen training (including General Kaizen, SMED, Visual Factory, FMEA, 5S, etc).
Up to 30%
Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.
This position is also eligible for bonus and…
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