Continuous Improvement Manager

Responsible to provide the strategic leadership to support and drive all aspects of Lean transformation. This person will report to the General Manager and will implement a strategy to lead change and produce deliverables that are aligned with attaining business objectives. To support these efforts, the Continuous Improvement Manager will build and lead a highly competent team that has the analytic, business, and facilitation skills to challenge the organization and lead it forward.

This team consists Manufacturing Engineers that support plant operations.

• Responsible for implementing and maintaining World Class Lean, quality processes, and other advanced manufacturing methodologies and systems specifically for Forging, Machining, Grinding, and Thread Roll Processes.
• Increasing productivity through the support and leadership of people, processes and technology.
• Ensure production equipment is capable and has capacity for growth; involves integrating equipment, people, material flow systems, and information systems.
• Develop and maintain in process quality control systems and standards to ensure product quality.
• Drive continuous improvement in labor costs through waste reduction, production efficiency, and operations improvement.
• Develop strategies, implement and monitor processes and operating systems for the manufacture of aerospace fasteners.
• Metrics driven and a solid decision maker.
• Evaluates and directs work space and shop floor utilization requirements.
• Work with vendors to determine appropriate material specifications.
• Responsible for maintaining and improving all factory processes and related metrics. Production efficiency, cycle times, capacity, capabilities and others as needed.
• Provides leadership to technical personnel to ensure ongoing product & process improvements to meet quality, CPI (continuous process improvement) and production goals.
• Provides direction to technical support as required for critical process and product issues.
• Ability to design processes, evaluate results and drive solutions to improve the processes.
• Works closely with production, quality, product engineering and support teams as required.
• Develop and support new manufacturing processes.
• Determine capital equipment needs & development of the budget process for equipment, training, software, and equipment installation projects.
• Prepare procedures, reports, and plans.
• Participates and leads defect reduction initiatives.
• Other Duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree required (preferably Engineering, Business or Industrial Technology) with 7-10 years of experience in a manufacturing operations environment
• Demonstrated expertise in implementation of lean principles and improvements.
• Experience in demand flow principles and Six – Sigma Methodology
• Proven work history in an International Company and in matrix organizations.
• Strong project leadership experience with a diversity of team skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior management, teams and individuals across multiple cultures, disciplines and geographies.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

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