Continuous Improvement Facilitator

• Lead cross-functional teams to deploy standard operating procedures and process improvements.
• Manage improvement initiatives through hands on interaction and personal mentoring skills utilizing LEAN principles, tools and strategy deployment.
• Lead and facilitate training in LEAN principles for the organization. Develop standard tools for departments to utilize in process improvement efforts.
• Analyze low to mildly complex production and processes. Utilize common process improvement techniques to analyze operations. Identify impact to current processes of proposed defect fixes or system enhancements and work with the various stakeholders to propose and develop process and/or technology modifications.
• Actively participates in the analysis of production and process issues, recommends solutions to further business goals and works with the appropriate teams in the plant to implement those solutions.
• Facilitate meetings, kaizen events and workshops to solve urgent business needs.
• Develop requirement documents and conduct systems testing, training, and related documentation, as necessary.
• Perform all assigned tasks in a safe, efficient, timely, and accurate and highly productive manner according to company policy.
• Contribute to the team effort to produce a quality product
• Attend scheduled work hours on a regular and timely basis. Maintain good attendance.
• Develop and maintain strong, positive business relationships with key internal clients, external customers and suppliers to clearly understand their business processes, and the development/articulation of short and long term business objectives.
• Define the business case for the projects that have been proposed and validate the opportunity, scope and importance of a project.
• Build, mobilize, and lead cross departmental project teams to meet the project objectives within the given time frame, and within budget
• Present status updates to stakeholders in the form necessary, using Six Sigma and Lean tools
• Establish key measure of success for projects and implement tracking plans.
• The company may assign other duties.

Above is a list of the most important responsibilities and functions, which are essential to the position. Employees must be able to perform these essential functions satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. Accommodations will be evaluated and provided to eligible employees on a case-by-case basis, depending on the employee's medical restrictions, work availability, the nature of the position, the position's essential functions and other relevant factors.

Qualifications

• Education: Five or more years of relevant business or project management experience required. Associates or bachelor's degree is desired but not required
• Licenses/Certifications: none

• Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Lean knowledge/experience to apply lean concepts and principles across an entire value stream- shop floor focused
• Excellent training and presentation skills.
• Consistent demonstration of ability to act independently, prioritize and influence others on a regular basis.
• Must have LEAN or Process Improvement experience - shopfloor focused
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Power Pint, Project, Visio, Outlook, and Access.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross functional teams
• "Hands on" person
• Organized and data driven
• Passionate about continuous improvement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management mindset
• Negotiating skills
• Event planning skills
• Managerial skills
• Counseling skills
• Training skills
• Investigative skills
• Empathy, assertiveness, accuracy, patience, professionalism, confidentiality
• Must be able to perform each essential function and responsibility of the job satisfactorily in accordance with company productivity and quality requirements

• Core Competencies
  • Communication - the ability to convey and distribute data to all pertinent parties.
  • Analyzing & Problem Solving- the ability to apply logic to solve problems to complete a specific task
  • Adaptability- the quality of being able to adjust to new conditions.
    
    

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)