Business Partner, Black Belt

Business Partner, Black Belt | Primient

Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet.

We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

The Business Partner, Black Belt sits within the Continuous Improvement team and drives operational excellence by embedding a culture of continuous improvement across the organization. This role is responsible for leading and mentoring teams in Lean Six Sigma methodologies, driving targeted short- and long-term continuous improvement initiatives, manages key projects, supporting local plant efforts, and conducting analyses to enable data-driven decision-making and operational solutions.

By championing Primient’s values of integrity, growth, and excellence, the Business Partner, Black Belt enhances efficiency, productivity and sustainable growth across the organization.

• Lead Primient Operating Model (POM) implementation: Drive the plant-level implementation of POM, ensuring alignment with operations goals. Provide strategic consultation to plant teams for effective and uniform implementation.
• Champion a Safety-First Culture
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  Advocate for and model a “Safety First” culture within the Plant. Provide tools and lead projects that enhance safety standards and improve safety outcomes.
• Develop and Report Performance Metrics: Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure project success. Provide regular reports and insights to project sponsors and leadership to track progress.
• Manage Continuous Improvement (CI) Deployment: Lead the execution of Lean Six Sigma projects to drive process improvement and defect reduction
• Drive Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Improvement: Implement and support plant level OEE tools and reporting. Lead improvement projects to optimize OEE.
• Utilize Data Management Tools
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  Apply Lean Six Sigma tools to support operational improvements, streamline reporting, and manage plant data more efficiently.
• Manage Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Process improvement Projects: Lead process improvement projects in collaboration with plant personnel, leadership, and engineering teams to improve efficiency, quality, and costs.
• Deliver Lean Six Sigma Trainings
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  Lead problem solving training initiatives, including Green Belt training, RCCA, Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA), LSS awareness and tools training
• Mentor and Coach Lean Six Sigma Green Belts: Provide mentorship and coaching to Green Belts and project team members, helping them to drive continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, STEM, supply chain, business administration, finance, or a related field
• Certification in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

• Experience leading Lean Six Sigma project work
• 3+ years experience in continuous improvement roles in a continuous process manufacturing environment
• Experience in leadership roles (e.g., decision making capacity) (preferred)
• Facilitation or learning and development experience (preferred)
• Project management experience (e.g., complex continuous improvement projects) (preferred)

• Lean, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement Methodologies (e.g. TPS, Stable Ops)
• Continuous Manufacturing Processes (operations, maintenance, EHS and quality)
• Microsoft Applications
• Statistical Simulation…