Continuous Improvement Manager
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- Fort Wayne, IN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in the company performance system best practices.
- Guide the company performance system roll-out and lead the cultural shift to managing through pillars.
- Coordinate and support plant pillar and platform leads (5S, Safety, Planned Maintenance, Focused Improvement, and more).
- Engage all associates through hands-on mentoring and audits.
- Monitor Sprint Plan timeline and engage pillar leads and plant leadership to ensure successful completion.
- Lead the Reliability Improvement Plans (RIP); establish action plans and schedule follow-up meetings.
- Coach teams in giving and receiving feedback, root cause analysis, trade-off analysis, interpersonal communications and external interactions.
- Work with the Operations teams to create an Autonomous Maintenance work culture and run to centerline.
- Degree in Business Management, Organizational Development, Engineering or other related fields
- 5+ years of plant manufacturing experience
- 5+ years' experience in Continuous Improvement environment - TPM, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and related process improvement systems.
- 5+ years' experience mentoring teams and individuals
- 5+ years' experience with root-cause analysis, data collection, and using TPM/ company performance system concepts such as "Why, Why/ How, How", Phenomena Thinking.