Director of Continuous Improvement

Posted Monday, December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM

Sensience is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered sensing, control, and sealing components.

We deliver mission-critical protection and valuable data for a wide range of systems, including appliances, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration units, industrial process equipment, motor vehicles, and aerospace. We have over 3,000 employees worldwide across 6 manufacturing facilities dedicated to keeping people and their homes safe.

Sensience brings a track record of over 75 years of innovation, quality, specialized expertise, a highly collaborative approach, and a commitment to growth – working together with our customers as valuable partners, helping to meet their critical objectives. We recently re-established ourselves as an independent company and looking for entrepreneurial minded candidates to help our company grow.

We are seeking a Director of Continuous Improvement who will be responsible for executing the Sensience Strategy of driving value creation by implementing Lean tools and process improvements across the company. The incumbent will provide cross-functional leadership across locations that include Mexico, China, Thailand and the United States. They will create guidelines, training, and standard operating procedures to provide consistent execution and optimal performance in all Sensience locations worldwide.

Also, they will assist in the identification of key leaders for operations process improvement implementation at each location.

• Lead advanced manufacturing capability initiatives, collaborating with manufacturing and quality engineering teams to improve production, reduce defects (PPM), and support new product launches.
• Implement Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to streamline operations, reduce cycle times, eliminate waste, and enhance workflow efficiency.
• Champion Kaizen, 5S+1, and best-in-class practices for efficiency, quality control, and employee engagement.
• Establish and deploy a Standard Operating System for consistent, optimized processes across all locations.
• Develop guidelines, training, and SOPs to ensure operational consistency and best practices.
• Evaluate current practices, recommend changes, and monitor implementation to improve productivity and inventory management.
• Drive improvement of process capability for critical characteristics to quality, ensuring key product and process attributes consistently meet or exceed customer and regulatory requirements.
• Design and implement strategies for critical process reliability and redundancy, ensuring robust, reliable operations and business continuity.
• Prepare and present financial reports focused on schedule, performance, and budget adherence.
• Develop strategies and business cases to support value creation and cost savings.
• Demonstrate measurable results in financial performance and operational cost reduction.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, professional development, and employee engagement.
• Coordinate and deliver process improvement training and workshops.
• Ability to work extended periods onsite at plant locations as needed
• Up to 50% travel will be required

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related discipline, OR a minimum of fifteen (15) years’ experience in operations and manufacturing-related assignments. Previous managerial experience required
• Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills
• Working knowledge of MS Office, or equivalent productivity suites, currently in use by the Company
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated judgment and decision-making capability
• Demonstrated organizing and planning capabilities
• Ability to travel both US domestically and internationally as needed up to 50%

Sensience is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE): race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, or any status protected by applicable law.

This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future are not eligible for hire.