Continuous Improvement Manager Ii

Are you an experienced professional looking to implement and create positive change within an organization?

The Continuous Improvement Manager will utilize leadership, influence, operations experience, and communication abilities to identify and drive change through continuous improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives at our Horse Cave, KY facility. This individual will need the ability and courage to coach several levels of leadership, from senior to front line leaders, as well as shop floor operating and maintenance personnel.

This role will have high visibility with key site and corporate leadership and will be working to deliver significant financial bets to the business. It is an excellent opportunity to learn and grow with the Dart team. With a foundation built on honesty, integrity, teamwork and respect for the individual, we’ve created a workplace where people who share our values thrive. We also invest in providing an environment centered on safety, community, health and wellness.

Day-to-Day Role:

• Develop, implement, and support the effective application of best practices such as Standard Work, Standard Operating Conditions and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Conduct timing and point of loss yield studies to identify the loss, Pareto.
• Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices).
• Develop countermeasures ranging from basic problem containment to system repair to equipment replacement.
• Act as a change agent for leading continuous improvement initiatives including development and delivery of training materials and programs.
• Manage and promote practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards, and serve the needs of our customers.
• Facilitate regular improvement planning sessions to identify key strategic opportunities to achieve manufacturing strategic A3 goals and develop related action plans with measurable outcomes.
• Provide continuous improvement leadership and support to drive KPI’s for safety, quality, production, efficiency, and service.
• Understand, support, and follow management expectations in alignment with company values
• Develop a detailed root cause analysis for each problem, where each root cause is validated through testing demonstrating that the condition or defect can be turned on or off.
• Facilitate problem solving by leveraging/modeling continuous improvement methodologies to eliminate root causes and permanently reduce variance.
• Analyze observations and data to fully understand and categorize issues and areas for improvement.
• Analyze lines for constraints and bottlenecks to achieve continuous flow.
• Perform data analysis and provide written reports that make problems and opportunities visible.
• Support and reinforce the effective application of the Daily Management System to validate those actions lead to desired performance improvements.
• Generate and communicate implementation plans using Gantt charts and work breakdown structures and coordinate resources to staff implementation plans, as necessary.
• Proactively seek and identify problems that need to be resolved and quantify the anticipated benefits of problem resolution.
• Advocate for the Voice of the Customer (VOC) via process capability and defect elimination.

Core Skills and Qualifications:
The ideal candidate must possess all of the following:

• EHS systems for a safe working environment
• Ability to lead through influence rather than authority.
• Experience using Microsoft Office, including the ability to create basic reports, documents, presentations and spreadsheets in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.
• Ability to apply improvement concepts to continuous, non-discreet, manufacturing processes.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to solve practical problems in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Experienced in optimizing the performance of one or more of the following:
  • Factory systems and line process inputs
  • Information flow
  • Raw materials flow, conveyance, blending, and drying systems
  • Continuous process operations
  • Quality systems for defect elimination
  • EHS systems for a safe working environment
  • Operational systems for waste elimination
  • People development for engagement and ownership
• Raw materials flow, conveyance, blending, and drying systems
• Bachelor's degree in operations, Engineering, or other manufacturing related field with seven (7) years of direct continuous improvement experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
• Factory systems and line process inputs
• People development for engagement and ownership
• Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
• Operational systems for waste elimination
• Ability to learn and understand materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of products.
• Quality systems for defect elimination
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills necessary to persuade and influence decision making of individuals, groups, or work teams.
• Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize workload, and respond to changing business demands
• Information flow
• Strong understanding and demonstrated experience in the areas of Continuous Improvement, Operational Excellence, Lean principals, statistics, and data analysis.
• Continuous process operations

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience with continuous improvement for multi-site or multi-buildings.
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Industrial Engineering.
• Experience with the following methodologies and practices: FMEA, Kaizen, Lean tools, 5S, Visual Factory Aids, SMED concepts, VSM, VOC and Poke Yoke.
• Lean / 6 Sigma Certification, American Society for Quality Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence or American Society for Quality Certified Quality Engineer.
• Lean manufacturing experience.
• Paper converting, chemical/plastics processing, and packaging industrial experience.

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Overview: Dart makes everyday products that give people the freedom to enjoy the food & drinks they love, wherever they are. From to-go containers and dinnerware to tamper-evident food packaging and even the red Solo cup, Dart products have been keeping people on the go and having fun for more than 50 years. Dart is a family-owned, family-focused company of 13,000 employees united by a shared set of values. Headquartered in Mason, MI, Dart has 30 locations in four countries.

Benefits: Dart Container full-time employees enjoy great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) with company matching contributions, paid vacation, paid holidays, short-term disability, tuition assistance, product discounts and more.

Dart Container is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are subject to a drug test (excluding THC*/marijuana/cannabis) and background check at the time of offer.

• THC testing ONLY when such testing is required by law.

Dart Container is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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