Continuous Improvement Coach

Description

Wheeler Machinery in Salt Lake City, UT is seeking to hire a Continuous Improvement (CI) Coach. This role will teach and mentor frontline employees and leaders on CI methodology, help build an engaged culture that solves problems, and work with technicians, team leads, and supervisors to instill the CI mindset through facilitation, coaching, and hands‑on learning. The CI Coach will spend most of their time out at the Gemba using Lean tools to foster engagement, energy, and sustainability of the Wheeler Way Forward.

• Support implementation of the Wheeler Way Forward Strategic Framework.
• Mentor frontline employees to drive change in their work areas, improve key business indicators, and simplify operations.
• Coaching employees in continuous improvement tools to solve problems and embed a CI culture.
• Support and drive the CI cards system by providing recognition and coaching of participants.
• Lead and coach problem‑solving activities.
• Deliver training courses to build continuous improvement capabilities.

• Unwavering commitment to working safely.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years of full‑time CI role experience.
• Proficiency in applying Lean tools (people development, mapping, problem‑solving methods, standards, 5S, error proofing, daily management, KPIs).
• Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills; comfortable speaking before groups of all levels.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

41 CFR 60-1.35(c).