Continuous Improvement Leader

continuous improvement leader

location: grand prairie, tx or madera, ca (supporting 2 additional sites). Travel requirement: up to 25%.

sealed air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high‑performance growth culture that delivers consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerates our performance. In 2024, sealed air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world.

sealed air is seeking a continuous improvement leader to champion and drive operational excellence across our grand prairie, tx and madera, ca facility and two additional sites. This high‑impact role is central to fostering a culture of continuous improvement, aligning site‑level initiatives with strategic business goals, and ensuring the effective implementation of our performance management system.

as a strategic thought partner and coach, you will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to identify opportunities for improvement, implement sustainable solutions, and influence change across all organizational levels. Your leadership will help accelerate performance, support policy deployment, and contribute to sealed air's global improvement efforts. This is an exciting opportunity for a results‑driven professional with a passion for lean principles, hands‑on problem‑solving, and coaching teams toward operational excellence.

• lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on improving performance, including routine status reviews of the focused improvement registries across the site for effectiveness and impact to goals.
• develop and propose goals which support strategic business objectives for the site, ensuring these goals are cascaded and improvement initiatives are in place to reach them.
• ensure the performance management system is implemented and sustained through verification at all levels of the organization, including audits.
• coach all levels of the site on the performance management system with a focus on 3 principles of lean leadership: go see, ask why, and always show respect.
• ensure proper training is provided for all levels to support and sustain the performance management system, including training on the system implementation and lean tools.
• track performance to planned levels/targets and ensure the pdca cycle addresses gaps.
• synchronize the site with global improvement activities and initiatives, sharing best practices with others.
• recommend disciplinary action to managers.
• assist in policy deployment for the site, including goal setting and tracking of execution.

• bachelor’s degree required, technical degree preferred.
• 5+ years minimum manufacturing experience.
• green belt certification preferred.
• able to work both independently and within a team, generating results with general/minimal guidance from management.
• excellent written and verbal communication skills along with professional presentation and negotiation skills.
• must be flexible, innovative, and comfortable setting own priorities.
• polished presentation, business acumen and facilitation skills.
• good understanding of lean manufacturing principles.
• experience with high volume operations.
• strong organization and planning skills.
• change agent experience.

$100,800 – $151,000. The range disclosed complies with applicable state and local pay transparency laws. Offers within this range will be determined by relevant factors including education, experience, and internal alignment. This position may also be eligible for annual performance bonuses and other incentive programs. Sealed air offers a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and other benefits designed to promote well‑being.

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