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Continuous Improvement Manager
Posted: 01/03/2023
2023-01-03
2023-03-01
Job Type:
Permanent/Direct Hire
Industry: Engineering
Job Number: 21274
Pay Rate: $ 100000.00 - $ 120000.00
Job Description
Our client, an automotive manufacturing company here in the Grand Rapids, MI area, is looking for a Continuous Improvement Manager to join their team!
Position responsibilities:
- Develops, implements, and manages lean manufacturing processes.
- Facilitates continuous improvement throughout manufacturing worksites.
- Reducing manufacturing and burden costs
- Assesses and eliminates waste and non-value added activities.
- Contributor of various disciplines who works as a change agent for operational excellence.
- Responsible to manage risk, set direction and lead the way to breakthrough improvement.
- Assist the operation in making paradigm shifts through continuous improvement activities.
- Responsible to encourage and stimulate management/employee thinking by posing new ways of doing things, challenge conventional wisdom by demonstrating successful application of new methodologies, seek out and pilot new tools, create innovative thinking.
- Responsibilities Works with management to identify and establish project selection criteria with an emphasis on overall process and quality improvement.
- Develops and manages cross-functional teams to meet project objectives. Monitors productivity of groups and individuals, recommends changes where desirable.
- Provides leadership and support to team. Leads long-term projects aimed at waste elimination/production efficiencies and establishment of Lean Manufacturing areas in conjunction with manufacturing sites.
- Subject matter may include plant floor layout, material-handling routes, service parts, and key future launches.
- Facilitates continuous improvement project teams to continuously improve processes and give support to areas within the organization.
- Based upon management requests, leads employees through workshops designed to improve work processes to reduce cycle time, inventory, labor hours, scrap, etc.
- Creates and/or facilitates process design changes by integrating new systems and/or processes with existing ones.
- Provides guidance to Group Leaders/ Engineers and other project staff as needed to develop a team-based organization focused on project goals and objectives.
- Identify problems in a process, establish and manage projects within the process, evaluate the process and develop potential solutions to improve the process.
- Applies principles of statistical process control when appropriate. Identifies opportunities for common mistake proofing.
- Develop performance measurement tracking mechanism to support project objectives.
- Review management reports to ensure projects achieve stated goals and support business objectives.
Job Requirements
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree and 5 +years of continuous improvement experience OR 15+ years of continuous improvement experience without a Bachelor's degree
- Six sigma black belt certification
- 10+ years of automotive manufacturing experience
Our hiring process: After submitting your resume, one of our experienced recruiters will review it and reach out to you within 2 business days if they'd like to discuss next steps.
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