Continuous Improvement Manager

TT Electronics plc • Perry, OH

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Continuous Improvement Manager, you will advance operational excellence by working alongside employees and leaders to understand how work is performed, solve problems, and build sustainable improvements. This role requires a hands-on, collaborative leader who spends time where the work occurs, uses data and structured problem-solving to guide decisions, builds trust across teams, and helps the organization mature its continuous improvement practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust and collaborate across functions and organizational levels.
• Practical knowledge of continuous improvement and structured problem-solving methods, including Lean, Six Sigma, root-cause analysis, Value Stream and process mapping.
• Strong analytical skills with experience collecting, interpreting, and communicating quantitative and qualitative data.
• Ability to design, implement, measure, and sustain processes and systems in an evolving manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of change management and the factors that influence adoption and sustainability.
• Curious, adaptable, and committed to continuous learning, with a willingness to seek feedback, challenge assumptions, and learn from results.
• Experience in continuous improvement, operational excellence, manufacturing, engineering, quality, operations, or a related discipline within a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with production teams to solve problems and improve processes.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through improvement, change, and problem-solving initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to use data to understand problems, evaluate solutions, measure results, and translate ideas into sustainable processes.
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, A3, DMAIC, PDCA, change management, or comparable methodologies.
• Must be a U.S. person within the meaning of ITAR (U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, Political Asylee, or Refugee).
• Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and have good judgment.
• Candidate is expected to exhibit high ethical standards and promote the same within the company.

Nice To Haves

• Lean Six Sigma certification or comparable continuous improvement training is beneficial but not required.

Responsibilities

• Charter a vision.
• Develop and guide the site's continuous improvement roadmap in partnership with employees, functional leaders, and site leadership.
• Spend meaningful time on the production floor observing processes, engaging employees, and identifying opportunities to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity.
• Design, implement, and sustain improvement systems and processes, including building new processes from the ground up when needed.
• Utilize value stream management to identify constraints, improve flow, and drive site-wide continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establish meaningful measures of success and connect improvement priorities to business and customer needs.
• Drive change.
• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives using appropriate methods such as Lean, Six Sigma, root-cause analysis, process mapping, experimentation, and structured problem-solving.
• Apply change management practices to help teams understand, adopt, and sustain new processes and ways of working.
• Facilitate collaborative problem-solving by gathering perspectives, testing assumptions, analyzing data, and helping teams develop solutions rather than prescribing answers.
• Develop practical methods for collecting and analyzing data to identify trends, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Establish KPIs and operating cadences that make performance visible, support decision-making, and measure whether improvements are delivering sustained results.
• Empower teams.
• Build trusted relationships by listening, asking thoughtful questions, following through on commitments, and valuing the knowledge of people closest to the work.
• Coach employees and leaders in continuous improvement, problem-solving, and data-informed decision-making.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary teams through complex problems, including situations where the solution is not known at the outset.
• Build team capability and ownership so improvements are sustained, and teams become increasingly able to solve problems independently.
• Lead the planning, facilitation, execution, and sustainment of Kaizen events, ensuring improvements are effectively implemented, measured, and sustained while developing and mentoring employees to become effective Kaizen facilitators.
• Safety is a core responsibility of this position. Team members are expected to perform all job duties in accordance with company safety policies, OSHA regulations, and established procedures. This includes wearing required personal protective equipment (PPE), participating in safety training, immediately reporting unsafe conditions or incidents, and stopping work when unsafe conditions exist. All employees are responsible for maintaining a safe, clean, and organized work environment and for actively contributing to the prevention of workplace injuries and accidents.

Benefits

• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager