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Celebrating 100 years in 2024, Plymouth Tube Company is a fifth-generation family-owned, precision metals manufacturer. Our products include tubing, extruded shapes, and cold-drawn shapes spanning specialty carbon, alloy, stainless steel, nickel alloy, and titanium. Headquartered in Warrenville, Illinois, with seven plants in the U.S. and one in Germany, Plymouth is known for offering industry-leading service levels and unique technical innovations.

We have a great family-based culture guided by these four values: People, Customer Focus, Community & Environment, and Long-Term Orientation. These values serve as pillars to support our mission statement: ‘We are committed to providing products and services that meet or exceed our customers' expectations.

Plymouth Tube is looking for an enthusiastic, ambitious team member to join our Continuous Improvement team. This person must embrace change, be self-motivated, and inspire others inside and outside the department. The individual should be able to communicate directly and openly with all levels in our organization. There will be many opportunities for the successful candidate to engage their innovative and creative problem-solving skills to help move the department to the next level. It is a must that the Continuous Improvement Manager has a high degree of personal integrity in dealing with customers, superiors, subordinates, and co-workers and will represent Plymouth Tube Company in a professional manner. The successful candidate will live both in the big picture as well as in the details, desire to make an impact, and work well in a team and individually.

ABOUT THE JOB:

As the Continuous Improvement Manager, you’ll drive sustainable Lean/Continuous improvements within Plymouth Tube facility, delivering breakthrough results in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC), while building cultural change throughout the organization. You’ll also work closely with plant leadership and department employees to achieve results. This position requires strong technical Lean/Six Sigma Manufacturing and hands-on leadership skills, along with a passion for operations excellence, to be successful. The CI Manager should possess extensive technical skills and hands-on experience in continuous improvement manufacturing activities. A strong application knowledge of LEAN Manufacturing techniques and related CI tools are required: Root Cause Analysis, Kaizen Blitz, Value Stream Mapping, OEE, First Hour Full Power, 5/50, Labor Analysis, 5S, 7 Wastes, Pit Stop Changeovers, etc. This person should be recognized as a change agent, challenging the status quo to drive to operations excellence.

The CI Manager also needs to possess leadership skills to drive the overall CI process across the facility, without having direct reporting relationships at the plant. He/she will work closely with the CI Director but must also be able to leverage his/her power of influence with the Plant Managers and their Teams.

The successful candidate should have strong practical Lean Manufacturing experience.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Develop tracking tools and measures to support CI initiatives.
• Provide and teach CI tools to the team members.
• Participate in safety related activities as requested or relied upon.
• Train, coach, and mentor local Mill team, at all levels, on Lean/Six Sigma principles to create competence deep and wide to drive the culture of continuous improvement. This is a hands-on role.
• Better leverage resources and share best practices across all facilities.
• Coach and mentor / facilitate local teams in Problem Solving using the tenets of the Lean/Six Sigma System.
• Leading and facilitating Kaizen events to drive sustainable improvements.
• Benchmark performance across the Mill and industry to identify areas of opportunity.
• Develops business case justification for projects and initiatives.
• Support an operating culture that promotes involvement, communication, mutual trust & respect, expectations and accountability and a passion for excellence.
• Track and analyze the CI process and manufacturing matrices.
• Own and role model Plymouth Tube values and behaviors to develop and transform the Company culture. Ensure that these values and behaviors are a part of everyday life at Plymouth Tube.
• Establish and drive productivity pipeline roadmaps across departments and the location.
• Lead, participate, and facilitate formal rapid improvement events to drive LEAN/Six Sigma principles, leading to improved safety, quality, delivery, cost, and revenue growth.
• Challenge the status quo to find ways to optimize manufacturing performance to deliver superior results.
• Support improvement activities that are consistent with the needs of the Lean/Six Sigma Business System. Provide coordination and communication for change initiatives.
• Build an employee engaged work environment.
• Develop and execute improvement action plans.
• Work closely with Mill teams to:
• Build a CI culture across the organization.
• Lead and execute Lean/Six Sigma System transformation improvement initiatives, including annual plans and improved process methods and practices to improve operating performance.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

· Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university is preferred but not required, preferably in Engineering, Math, Science, Business, or Operations.

· Five (5) or more years in a manufacturing environment.

· Must demonstrate the ability to get things done through others.

· Must be self-motivated, have a high sense of urgency, be able to solve complex situations, and be resourceful.

· Three (3) to five (5) years of CI experience in a Continuous Improvement Department as a Manager preferred.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU:

· Benefits effective 30 days from date of hire.

· Medical, Dental and Vision, HSA, FSA

· 401k Matching, Life Insurance, STD/LTD

· 100% covered tuition reimbursement (including books & reasonable expenses)

· Wellness Program / Lifestyle Rewards / Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

· Paid Time Off & Holidays

· Career Arching: Plymouth allows for a great depth & breadth of knowledge in which you can

wear many hats and be exposed to several opportunities.

COMPETENCIES/DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:

• Team Player: Steps up to help the team even when it’s outside of normal duties or comfort zone, looks out for the safety of self and team. Cooperates with others without dominating the group, values team members for their contributions and professional abilities, and always treats people with respect. Communicates ideas respectfully, honestly and clearly, and considers the suggestions and opinions of others
• Care & Commitment: Consistently reliable, follows work instructions, investigates any inconsistencies, and looks ahead to next steps. Offers ideas for improvements (safety, operations, process, and quality) and actively participates in improvement processes. Accepts change as part of future state improvement and adapts with positive enthusiasm.
• Initiative: Initiate’s problem solving to address issues, acts without being told or directed, actively participates in resolution, seeks best alternative even if it challenges the status quo. Does and says the right things for the right reasons even when it’s uncomfortable, speaks up immediately when seeing a safety hazard, a process error, or problem to resolve. Acts with sense of urgency: Gives immediate attention to tasks or issues that prevent organization from reaching goals, rethinks priorities and organizes work to achieve goals or get goals back on track.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

• Sets high standard of performance expectation, measures performance realistically, encourages personal and professional development, mentors, and coaches for individual and team achievement.
• Tenacity: Demonstrates consistent striving to achieve results regardless of roadblocks, generates new and creative approaches to problems. Adjusts quickly to changing priorities, flexes to new pressures from the environment (loss of talent, changes in team, new priorities, or changes in strategy). Brings new life to old systems, continuously challenging the status quo, includes others in vision, not rigid with others intellectually, emotionally, or interpersonal
• Communication: Exhibits excitement about the job and organization, demonstrates a “can do” attitude up and down the chain, demonstrates effectiveness in negotiations and collaboration. Highly effective in getting point across in an organized and easy manner, effective one on one or in groups, cognizant of impact of decisions on others, and helps other recognize the chain of communication. Adept at running meetings, keeps meetings on track with objectives, is specific in requests and timelines, successful in achieving meeting results, thorough in follow up and follow through.
• Leadership: Leads by Example as a model team player. Strategize with peers to reach monthly and yearly goals, provides a clear, credible vision for staff and organization. Inspires people to participate in a team environment, encourages others to resolve conflicts, and builds quality relationships with other departments.
• Continuous Improvement: Consistent in performing standard work, problem solving, and plans and leads effective meetings. Follows up and follows through on action items, uses visuals and data to communicate changes, works with team to identify improvement opportunities. Audits lean improvements for sustainability, viability, and validation, and maintains improvements.

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