NAM Continuous Improvement Manager (Simpsonville, SC, US, 29681)

Sealed Air Corporation•Simpsonville, SC

40d•Onsite

About The Position

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance - a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com. The NAM Continuous Improvement Manager is responsible for working closely with regional plant leadership and cross-functional teams to diagnose and resolve issues impacting operational performance. Examples of these issues include rate, yield, crewing, and quality challenges which have a material impact on FPMP and/or Supply Chain performance. Please note that this role will be based at our Simpsonville, SC site with travel (30%) to other sites as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering
5+ years of experience of directly relevant experience within a role focused on Operational Excellence and/or Continuous Improvement
Prior experience in a similar role within Supply Chain or Manufacturing Operations
Prior experience leading operational excellence and/or continuous improvements efforts at a large manufacturing plant or across multiple plant locations within a region
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles
Knowledge of financial measurements and goals in a fast-paced business
Strong data analytics capability with working knowledge of Power BI
Strong project management skills
Demonstrated success in leading and driving sustained changes on the manufacturing/production floor
Demonstrated success leading kaizen events focused on Supply Chain or Manufacturing Operations
Ability to teach, coach, and lead advanced training in Lean methodologies, 5S, SMED, VSM, Kaizen and other continuous improvement methodologies
Ability to communicate effectively across all levels within the organization
Ability to travel up to 30% (as applicable)

Responsibilities

Performing "Deep Dive" analysis into operational issues to identify root causes alone and in partnership with plant resources including engineering and OpEx teams
Helping facilitate and promote plant to plant OpEx best practices.
Proving insights into senior leadership for operational improvement opportunities.
Resolve operational challenges.
Performing data analysis using SAP, Power BI, and various support programs to analyze key business metrics and identify opportunities to increase performance.
Identifying opportunities and supporting plants in transforming the opportunities into executable action plans.
Supporting performance improvement initiative pipeline growth and health.
Participating in financial management calls, taking action and leading investigations as applicable.
Reviewing monthly trends and understanding categories which are over/underperforming.
Leading regional operational excellence and continuous improvement efforts and providing guidance and expertise on which approach and methodologies to use.
Partnering with Supply Chain Operations leaders to ensure improvement efforts are completed in a timely manner.
Directly leading and/or participating in kaizen events and other continuous improvement efforts.
Teaching, demonstrating and coordinate lean implementation efforts and activities on the manufacturing/production floor such as Kanban, Material Conveyance, Production flow, Super Market design and deployment, Value Stream Mapping, Takt time analysis, Problem-Solving, Standardized work, Set-up reduction, 5S, Visual Workplace, and Error-Proofing, 5S, TPM, SMED/QCO, Visual Factory, Kaizen, Scheduling, etc.
Assisting plant Lean teams in sustaining gains achieved in Lean efforts.
Supporting management team in identifying and implementing best practices.