Operational Process Improvement Manager Atlanta GA Area -

Company manufactures folding carton packaging for beverage, personal care and household products.

Job Description

Develops, trains, and monitors methodologies that improve the cost, quality, productivity, and other critical operational measurements as a way of improving manufacturing reliability, reducing costs, and elevating productivitywith the goal to drive to zero losses and 100 percent employee ownership.

Leads implementation of improvement process focused on core pillars of the business to include;

What will you be responsible for?

• Learning and developing new methodologies that improve the success rates of improvement activities in accomplishing the goals of the organization.
• Trains personnel in the continuous improvement program at the various skill levels.
• Attends gate review meetings for projects to monitor adherence to continuous improvement program.
• Develops and maintains ongoing tracking of continuous improvement activities in the organization to determine financial impact of improvement activities.
• Prepares reports for internal and external customers as required.
• Identifies and incorporates improvement opportunities into the continuous improvement program.
• Initiates, reviews, masters, and follows all standard operating procedures (SOPs) for area of responsibility.
• Lead key project efforts and provide coaching to other project leaders on process design, change management and the Six Sigma DMAIC/DMADV methodology in support of the creation, improvement, and management of end-to-end Operations and Engineering processes.
• Assists in planning and evaluation of training programs and materials and curricula development.

What are we looking for?

• Broad experience with a program and principals similar to IWS as implemented by P&G and Toyota manufacturing.
• Job related experience for 5 years minimum at a manufacturing environment at the plant level
• Certifications/Licenses/Other: Six Sigma – Kaizen – Lean – ISO or similar.

Working knowledge of the following areas: Experience with IWS systems, lean methodology and Six Sigma quality, Kaizen activities, Value Stream Mapping, quality standards; generally accepted managerial practices and procedures; problem solving.