Operational Excellence Change Agent

Role Summary

This role leads and participates in cross-functional teams, focusing on continuous improvement projects aligned with company priorities. Responsibilities include identifying, implementing, and tracking process improvement projects. This role actively champions a culture of lean continuous improvement throughout the organization.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for implementing lean initiatives utilizing lean methodology covering Operations, management, and people systems.
• Identify improvement opportunities and implement solutions using process improvement tools, relevant metrics, and improvement objectives to create cost savings through direct expense reduction or process improvement savings.
• Responsible for analyzing data and creating analytical dashboards for trend analysis.
• Identification and creation of appropriate measures for tracking success through the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
• Participate in site projects as necessary.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred. Advanced degree, or professional designation a plus. Minimum 2-3 years of experience in continuous improvement or industrial engineering or operations. Influential change agent who will engage all organizational levels and lead sustained improvement. Competent in project planning, execution, post implementation support, while having the ability to work on multiple projects in various stages simultaneously. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are necessary to successfully ask the right critical questions and present, coordinate and implement his/her plans and procedures. Problem solving includes critical thinking, statistical analysis and ability to focus. Lead or support teams in a limited project size capacity or cross-functional project team.
• Preferred Qualifications: Lean green belt or black certification.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; advanced degree or professional designation preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Flexible schedule to accommodate workload. May require off-shift work hours as job demands.