Overview & Responsibilities
Purpose of the Job:
Lead moderate-to-complex improvement initiatives across a site, region, or end-to-end value stream (manufacturing and/or service).
Provide facilitation and coaching to cross-functional teams, standardize best practices, and drive sustained performance improvements. The position is to coordinate and lead a wide range of activities that are designed to improve on-time delivery, productivity, quality, cost, safety, and/or environmental performance. The position will assist in the evaluation process, justification of improvements, and with carrying out the implementation plan.
Focus: deliver multi-functional results and mentor others in CI methods.
Background and Experience:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field (or equivalent experience). Degrees or Advanced Degrees with an emphasis on Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence considered a plus.
Experience: 5–8+ years delivering CI / process excellence results, including cross-functional projects, change adoption, and sustainment.
Certifications: Lean / Six Sigma Black Belt preferred (or equivalent advanced certification).
Skills:
- Advanced facilitation (value stream mapping, rapid improvement events, daily management coaching).
- Strong analytical capability (process capability, root cause analysis, basic statistics) and storytelling with data.
- Coaching and influencing without authority; experience working with leaders and frontline teams.
- Project and change management skills; ability to manage risk and stakeholder expectations.
- Experience standardizing and replicating improvements across departments or sites.
- Strong written and verbal communication; ability to work in cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable working in shop floor, repair center, or field service environments as required.
- Process and leadership-oriented mindset.
- Meeting facilitation and training skills required.
Nature of the Job:
- Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives and value stream mapping across end-to-end processes.
- Apply advanced Lean / Six Sigma methods to improve capability, quality, delivery, and cost.
- Coach teams on problem-solving and CI tools; mentor junior CI practitioners.
- Drive replication of best practices across sites/regions; establish control plans.
- Partner with IT/Analytics to enable data-driven process improvements where applicable.
- Aid deployment of business strategies throughout the organization ensuring alignment of improvement initiatives.
Specific Job Responsibilities/Competencies:
- Lead complex projects and value-stream improvements.
- Coach cross-functional teams; mentor junior CI practitioners.
- Establish control plans and measurement systems for sustainment.
- Identify replication opportunities and deploy best practices.
- Advanced Lean/Six Sigma; strong facilitation and influence.
- Strategic thinking; ability to connect work to business outcomes.
- Risk management; resilience in ambiguous environments.
- Communicate in a professional, positive, courteous manner at all times with all levels of the business.
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