Continuous Improvement Manager
About The Position
Responsible for, but not limited to, planning, managing, and coordinating activities in the areas of Engineering, Maintenance, and Innovations within the business unit. This role is based on customer requirements, current standards, and tools for Safety, Quality, and Engineering at Schnellecke Logistics Alabama. The position involves improving business processes to make them robust and efficient, developing layouts, material, and information flows to meet customer requirements and optimize resource utilization, and developing and implementing warehouse strategies. The role also includes elaborating and updating manpower files, providing monthly movement quantities for invoicing, coordinating and directing projects, and supporting Lean and Kaizen initiatives.
Requirements
- Adherence to safety principles at all times.
- Know and follow standard work procedures and safety rules for all tasks assigned.
- Execute the values, philosophy, mission, strategy, policies, and standards of the organization to achieve the vision of Schnellecke Logistics.
- Apply the procedures in the area of responsibility, to ensure the use of best practices in Schnellecke Logistics.
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field preferred or equivalent experience.
- 2 years lean management experience.
- Engineering, Planning of Logistics processes, 5 years.
- Team Leading, 2 years.
- Budget and administration, 2 years.
Responsibilities
- Plan, manage and coordinate the activities in the area of Engineering, Maintenance and Innovations in the business unit.
- Improve business processes to make them robust and efficient.
- Develop Lay-outs, material and information flows to meet the customer requirements and optimize use of available resources.
- Develop and implement warehouse strategies based on packaging characteristics, consumption, delivery method, etc.
- Elaborate and update manpower file with RTR quantities.
- Provide monthly movement quantities as basis for invoicing.
- Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.
- Direct the application of the Project management methodology in the business unit.
- Support Lean and Kaizen initiatives in all areas.
- Initiates and manages internal LEAN systems.
- Enforce LEAN principles and culture throughout organization.
- Support the development of Training and Lean-Tools and Techniques for those individuals that are involved in Change Processes.
- Performs analysis of efficiency data to ensure all process are working to standards.
- Monitor progress toward completion of training goals.
- Manages the Idea Management program which uses ideas from associates to make improvements in the operation and other areas.
- Deficiency analysis, Identification and implementation of process improvement considering customer requirements.
- Conduct time studies and upload information into SharePoint system.
- KPI measurement and development.
- Coaching and active support of Leadership in all areas of Lean Processes.
- Auditing of Lean-Processes and Reporting.
- Train all personnel on LEAN culture, Kaizen, Idea Management, and other pertinent areas.
- Work with operations managers and engineering to ensure efficiency reports reflect the workload of each process.
- Continuous Improvement of Best Practices.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
