Continuous Improvement Manager

Job Category
:
Quality, Safety & Environment

Requisition Number
: CONTI
001359

• Posted :
  September 30, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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29 Hanover Road
Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA

LAPP is a family-owned company headquartered in Stuttgart and a global leader in cable and connection technology. Founded in 1959, we are still fully family-owned today. With around 5,800 employees, we are operating in over 80 countries – globally connected and regionally rooted. Working at LAPP means more: this is where inventive spirit and a hands-on mentality meet cherished values and tradition.

We offer all employees the freedom to develop and pursue new opportunities. Flexibility and personal responsibility are just as important to us as a family-friendly work environment. We value all our colleagues with their talents, ideas and perspectives.

Summary: Under the general direction of the Quality Director, the Continuous Improvement Manager leads Lean improvement activities and process automation across the Americas. The role applies Lean principles to eliminate waste and standardize work, then uses digital tools, examples may be Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Microsoft Power Platform and Artificial Intelligence (AI), to automate and scale improved processes. Focus areas include Safety, Quality, Delivery, Productivity, Cost and Efficiency.

Implement LEAN processes across all functions of the organization to facilitate improvements in overall customer satisfaction, while minimizing costs to Lapp.

• Identify Process Lean Initiatives and automation opportunities across all business units in Americas, in both office/transactional and operational processes.
• Lead the prioritization of the Process Lean Initiatives and automation initiatives in collaboration with the management teams.
• Process mapping, value stream mapping, identifying inefficiencies in productivity
• Deploy appropriate LEAN methodologies to guide teams to resolve process issues.
• Lead the implementation of corrective actions based on Internal and External process failures. Lead the implementation of level 3 and level 4 processes in Americas region.
• Support the business in establishing “LEAN Manufacturing Best Practices”
• Lead the Kaizen events throughout the business units.
• Develop Internal Business Partners for implementation of Lapp Operating Systems- LOS workshops, LOS projects and LOS roadmaps
• Enhance the development of LOS knowledge, methods, principles, standards, culture and training

• Implement standard work, visual factory and error proofing (poka-yoke)
• Utilize KPI’s to identify major quality issues contributors and lead the implementation of corrective actions.
• Identify bottlenecks, deviations and potential for improvement and derive sustainable measures
• Support of internal business partners on the shop floor achieve measurable, continuous and sustainable improvements in effectiveness and efficiency
• Guide employees through operational change management and improvement process
• Establish a culture of Continuous Improvement
• Design, build and deploy automation solutions using RPA, Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, SharePoint/Microsoft Lists, Forms) and AI tools such as generative AI assistants and intelligent document processing
• Develop Power BI dashboards and KPI reporting to measure process performance and track the benefits of improvement and automation projects.

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

• Active listener, Conveys communication thoroughly- receptive and responsive
• Proven Diversity Champion in a dynamic multi-cultural workforce
• Hands-on mentality, Take the Initiative,…