Continuous Improvement Manager (Finance)

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Create synergies with the plant management team that enables the team to meet or exceed the financial cost reduction targets for labor productivity, material utilization, and overhead spending through a culture of continuous improvement and waste elimination.
• Promote and facilitate development of continuous improvement strategy and lean principles.
• Collaboratively train leadership team members and employees on the sustainable approach to continuous improvement through sharing of best practices.
• Lead and develop the CI Engineers and Technicians through support of career development and coaching.
• Ensure alignment objectives and projects of the CI team and the facility
• Participate in regular workshops and learnings with other Plant Continuous Improvement leaders to collaborate and coordinate on systemic priorities and initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops on CI and creative problem solving

NATURE AND SCOPE

The Plant Continuous Improvement Manager will report to the Plant Manager. As part of the Operations team, the Plant Continuous Manager will have significant interaction with all employees throughout their location in addition to CI leaders across the US at other BAC facilities. The Plant CI Manager will have direct reports of Engineering and Technician caliber.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering
• 7+ years of experience in Manufacturing/Engineering
• 3+ years of Leadership experience in plant operations with an emphasis on continuous improvement
• Demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing, production and information systems and systems
• Strong collaboration, influencing and employee leadership skills
• Demonstrated use of analytics and metric alignment in CI
• Competency based used of lean methodology-Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, SMED, etc.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. While performing this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk up to 50% of the time in manufacturing environment. This position requires occasional lifting up to 25 pounds and travel both domestic and internationally up to 10-20% of the time.