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Continuous Improvement Leader - Burlington Iowa
Company: Tenneco
Location: Burlington, Iowa
Posted On: 04/23/2024
This position will deliver continuous improvement training and activities throughout the plant while serving as a Subject Matter Expert on Continuous Improvement. Will lead and grow a culture of Continuous Improvement and its activities at the plant. Will facilitate projects aimed at generating Continuous Improvement techniques, cost reductions, and process performance improvements. Provides efficient leadership and cost-effective integration of Continuous Improvement, creating operational excellence.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Facilitates Continuous Improvement projects, cost reductions, and process performance improvements.
- Maintains CI implementation schedules for assigned projects, progress updates as required, and most importantly, provide documentation that demonstrates the direct link between CI implementation and process and Plant Operations improvements.
- Provides CI training and coaching at all levels of the Plant.
- Participates in and leads teams aimed at the resolution of quality issues and concerns.
- Supports production control, material control, material planning departments in improvement projects relating to scheduling inventory management and raw material flow and tracking.
- May support prototype and pilot runs to address design and process feasibility concerns from a departmental aspect.
- Interfaces with plant engineering on projects addressing staffing, manpower, time and capacity analysis.
- Generates, provides and participates in department specific training needs.
- Calculates cost reductions and/or various analysis to determine optimal problem-solving method.
- Teams with the Plant Controller to document savings and profit results of continuous improvement activities.
- Accountable for tracking all CI Projects and reporting progress to plant staff.
- Completes and or coordinates work sampling and or time studies to develop production standards for products.
- Assists in monitoring department equipment (OEE) and interface with Maintenance department to identify maintenance, repair and TPM.
- Works with process owner to develop value stream maps for each process and each value stream family within the facility.
- Utilizes the concepts of continuous improvement and cost reduction in the execution of the job function.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's Degree in business administration, finance, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
- Quality improvement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma
- Continuous Improvement certification preferred
- 3-5 years experience in Manufacturing Operations.
Soft Skills:
- Passion for Continuous Improvement
- Ability to communicate with all levels within the organization
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Predisposition to teach leaders a zero defect mentality
- Ability to weigh and manage priorities
- Skilled at synthesis and analysis
- Detail oriented
- Flexibility and diplomacy when dealing with staff and coworkers
- Ability to make decisions as well as influence decision-making
- Strong work habits focusing on safety, quality, and productivity
- Organizational skills
- Ability to multitask
- Ability to effectively communicate issues and ideas with peers and with management.
- Ability to build effective working relationships throughout the organization.
- Ability to facilitate meetings with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to operate independently within a tight deadline environment.
- Is a high energy self-starter with a resilient, can-do attitude.
- Project management
- Customer service
Hard Skills:
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