Position Summary:

• Responsible for leading the development and sustainment of the facility's continuous improvement program, working hands on with key stakeholders.

Encompassing:

+ Continuous Improvement, Environment, Health & Safety, Research & Development, Quality, Supply Chain Management, plant Management

• Supporting in the development and delivery of data driven improvements and efficiency across the overall value chain.
• Strengthening, shaping, providing technical expertise, and coaching the implementation of a continuous improvement culture, encompassing core tools, frameworks, techniques, initiatives, standards, projects, and plant management processes aligned with RPM's strategic goals.

Responsibilities:

• Work with facilities in collection of business baseline performance data such as OEE and Yield, aligning with tiered meetings and leading to sustained improvement activities.
• Establishment of plant management meaningful metrics reflected in financials.
• Lead and coach data driven continuous improvement projects and events to eliminate root causes of waste.
• Documentation of continuous improvement activities and projects.
• Establish plant management processes to monitor progress and reporting against standards, by hour, shift, day, week, and month.
• Ascertain corrective and sustained preventative actions to eliminate deviations from standard.
• Implement and coach on improvement programs to institute new standards and improved ways of working.
• Support in collection of relevant data, leading to improvement activities.

Competency Requirements:

• Ability to use data analytical software such as Minitab, Power BI, JPM
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Flexibility in working hours.
• Strategic and analytical mindset.
• Excellent communication skills verbal and written.
• Leadership, coaching and mentoring skills across all levels of an organization.
• Self-driven, motivated and ability to drive and motivate key stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and facilitate organizational changes, inclusive of cultural change.
• Endorse and practice teamwork.
• Use Lean and statistical process control tools to get a root cause of waste.
• Expertise and working knowledge with CI tools.
• Strong Emotional (EQ) and Cultural Intelligence (CQ).
• Ability to understand financial measures and how they are generated.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years' experience working in Continuous Improvement.
• Experience of and comfortable with working in a high-paced manufacturing environment on the shop floor and in quality control
• Experience in driving and sustaining improvements.

Qualifications:

• Technical degree or equivalent in Engineering, Science, Business, Management or Operations related subjects - Required.
• Accredited Lean Six Sigma Black Bel.

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