Director, Continuous Improvement

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities!

We currently have an opportunity for a Continuous Improvement Director at our Lake Forest Corporate Headquarters plant in Lake Forest, IL
. This position will support our Malvern, AK, Louisville, KY, Bellwood, VA, and Wheeling plants with up to 75% travel. This position could also be located at our Malvern, AK, or Louisville, KY locations.

The Continuous Improvement Director will be responsible for driving continuous improvement and demonstrating maximum efficiency and delivery productivity for the entire Business Unit (BU) with disciplined process and world class measures. The Continuous Improvement Director will be a key creator of the Continuous Improvement and Digital Factory strategy for the BU, leveraging best practices across our manufacturing sites as we continue to develop our Boundless operating system across Reynolds Consumer Products (RCP).

We embrace and accept individual experiences and backgrounds to achieve a diverse and inclusive workplace.

You Will Have the Opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

Strategy & Business Transformation

• Develop plans, schedules, and budgets for tactical projects to improve existing processes; ensure cost-benefit evaluation for all assigned projects are completed to define potential financial, business and industry impacts of initiatives.
• Support the business leaders in the development of intermediate and long-term CI strategies to assure delivery of the projected CI Saving Budget.
• Create the digital manufacturing (IoT) strategy and coach plant teams on implementation and sustained performance enhancement as a result.
• Advise and influence senior leadership on business transformation topics that include organizational effectiveness, performance results, and change management in the terms of complexity and impact on the business.

Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence

• Manage a CI Savings Budget across the Business Unit that represents an achievable value to deliver back to the business.
• Act as the subject matter expert for the core pillars of the Boundless operating system to assure sustained results, including assisting in training and plant acclimation to the new PEPS process.
• Drive the improvement of processes and systems in the plants and implement programs that will have continuing long-term benefits.
• Continuously evaluate and measure program or initiative performance and progress against goals and serve as a change agent within the organization.
• Monitor existing processes to make sure they continue to perform at optimal levels of efficiency achieving lowered conversion costs year-over-year.
• Direct all CI activities to include Kaizen events in 5S, SMED, TPM, VSM, PDCA or equivalent, A3 Problem Solving.
• Ensure adherence to Lean Methodology, including Kaizen, 5S, Standard Work, Daily Management, Layered Audit Process and Business Plan development to eliminate waste.
• Confer with management, engineering, and other staff regarding manufacturing capabilities, production schedules, and other considerations to facilitate production process improvements.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Effectively lead, manage, develop, coach, and evaluate team members and associates at various levels of experience.
• Develop and deliver Lean Training at all levels of the organization while driving Operational Excellence standards.

You Will Love It Here If…

• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment
• You put safety first, always
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You believe in treating all people with respect, operating ethically, and growing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
• You are…