Continuous Improvement Lead

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About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit  .

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

Lubrizol is seeking a Continuous Improvement Leader to support our Calvert City plant in their journey towards operational excellence. The primary objective of this role is to spend time on the floor driving continuous improvement projects, with a special focus on standardization and automation while capturing the results along the way. The day-to-day efforts will focus on oversight and implementation of the Lubrizol operating system to include One Lubrizol Standard Work, supporting 4-step projects, and running internal assessments, and managing productivity projects.

What We're Looking For:

• Drive productivity for the plant managed by corporate software.
• Own site responsibility for implementation of the Lubrizol operating system driven by the central team, beginning with core elements
• Key inflow / outflow exchange with the central continuous improvement team
• Responsible for maintaining productivity tracking / dashboard for the plant / monthly metrics
• Completing starred Value Stream Map (VSM)
• Support manufacturing technology team in defining, prioritizing, and executing automation roadmap and projects
• Develop and train additional resources within the plants to support continuous improvement projects

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in engineering or program management or 10 years of equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of Operations/Manufacturing experience
• 2 or more years of Continuous Improvement experience
• History of implementation of LSS, role based standard work, 5S programs
• Solid communication, facilitation, and proven project management experience skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong presentation skills from preparing presentations to delivering it
• Working knowledge of documented management systems, such as ISO 9001 and RC14001.
• Value Stream Mapping experience
• Travel up to 25%
• Must be willing/able to work in a plant environment.
  
  Ability to wear all required PPE

Considered a Plus

• Experience in organizational, cultural, and technical change management.
• Training development and delivery experience (due to responsibility to train site resources)
• Lean Manufacturing experience

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.

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