
Global Continuous Improvement Manager
- The Woodlands, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, business administration or related field
- Six Sigma Black Belt certification and / or Lean certification
- Experience with TQMS such as TPS, Honeywell operating system, or similar operational excellence model
- 8-10+ years of progressive experience in Lean Transformation across multiple sites, driving continuous improvement in a high-performing organization, preferably in a manufacturing environment, working with capital equipment
- The ability to coordinate and lead successful cross-functional improvements is necessary in addition to possessing superior written, oral and presentation skills
- Experience in leading CI at a multi-site level
- High level of self-motivation with proactive approaches to problem solving and strong decision-making capabilities
- Strong leadership and organizational skills
- Working experiences with functional leaders to establish and execute CI roadmap to deliver baseline results
- Able to influence, motivate and drive a CI mindset with multiple disciplines throughout the organization
- Proficient in Excel, Outlook, Word, Visio, Power Point and Power BI
- Master’s Degree in Engineering or Business Administration
- Lean transactional experiences in customer services, order entry, engineering design, and finance.
- SME/AME/ASQ/Shingo Prizes Lean Certification or other Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
- As an individual contributor, develops, communicates, and leads the execution of the global CI strategy, focusing on transformation, processes, and systems to enable greater value delivery and improved productivity
- Champions and sustains a robust CI infrastructure allowing near real time program improvements with cross functional collaboration so learnings are shared across the portfolio
- Support all Dover operational excellence initiatives
- Supports execution of the CI roadmap within the site and champions site level CI events, returning productivity improvements through core lean waste elimination concepts
- Monitors and analyzes operational performance metrics to identify areas of improvement
- Responsible for site productivity targets, both deployment and execution. Champions site productivity roadmap projects and fuel to grow process to enable a reduction in cost of goods sold (COGS)
- Responsible for End-to-End process optimization and standardization
- Participates/teaches/leads the deployment of design for flow lean tools
- Establishes standardized work and audit schedule for sustainment. Partner in Driving and improving the SQDIP metrics globally
- Implements CI best practices sharing across all sites globally within DPC
- Participates in GEMBA walks and coaches/mentors/trains the plant/functional management teams to deploy a consistent CI culture across the plant/functional areas
- Teaches problem-solving skills to employees, promotes the use of problem-solving tools within the plant / functional areas and becomes a subject matter expert
- Follows up regularly with site leaders to insure the continuation of foundational CI projects, ensuring all projects are tracked and reported on