Continuous Improvement Manager Jobs

Weir ESCO

Onsite/Hybrid/Remote

Onsite at either:

Portland, OR

Newton, MS

Bucyrus, OH

Covington, KY.

Purpose of Role

Weir ESCO’s Continuous Improvement Manager provides leadership to drive continuous improvement into our DNA. This role will focus on guiding initiative success through process management, helping all employees become systematic problem solvers, and developing our next tier of CI leadership.

Why choose Weir:

Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities

• Relationships: Build relationships with those you support by becoming a valued resource and leader of effective processes improvement. Mentor and train others in continuous improvement roles to build local and regional resource capability
• Process Management: Support a process management approach to meeting objectives for cost, safety, and energy. Provide leadership and facilitation for cross-functional process improvement – ensuring a systematic approach is followed
• Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.
• Learning: Keep current on innovative process improvement practices and personal development. Recognize best practices and achievements, promoting organizational learning

Job Knowledge / Education And Qualifications

• Must be willing and able to travel up to 30% (primarily domestic, some international)
• Project management experience is beneficial, but not required
• Proven ability to facilitate and influence in a virtual environment
• Experience leading lean practices in both operations and administrative functions
• Must be permanently authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
• Bachelor’s degree and experience driving change through development, implementation, and ongoing coaching of Lean practices

Core Competencies

• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Outcome & Action Oriented: Assists colleagues to effectively plan their actions including appropriate support, resourcing and contingencies; Works effectively with resistance to change; Draws on a range of diverse techniques and methods to facilitate achievement of outcomes
• Listening Practices: attentive and active listening; has the patience to hear people out; can accurately restate the opinions of others even when he/she disagrees.
• Building Relationships: Skillfully builds and maintains relationships with CI Leaders and Managers throughout the organization; Uses language that the colleague can relate to; develops trust through keeping commitments and being non-judgmental
• Enabling Insight & Learning: Uses a range of techniques to raise awareness, encourage exploration and deepen insight; uses feedback and challenge effectively to increase awareness, insight and responsibility for action
• Presentation Skills: Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers, direct reports, and bosses; is effective both inside and outside the organization, on both cool data and hot and controversial topics; commands attention and can manage group processes during the presentation; can change tactics midstream when something isn’t working.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; is original and value-added in brainstorming settings.

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page.

Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

For additional information about Weir ESCO, visit us at www.esco.weir

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