Job Opening: Sr. Continuous Improvement Specialist
- Company
- ALBANY INTERNATIONAL, CORP.
- Location
- SALT LAKE CITY, UT
- Posted on
- May 9, 2024
As our Senior Continuous Improvement Specialist you will have the opportunity to provide leadership and implementation of assigned continuous improvement activities. This is a proactive, results oriented, hands on role to develop and lead a culture of continuous improvement, continuous improvement of our business performance, and ensure alignment throughout the business to goals and objectives.
In this role, you will:
Be expected to work in accordance with our core values: Safety, Accountability, Integrity, Respect, Passion and innovation. The role of the Senior CI Specialist is to enable and support in the following areas:
Lead Improvement Culture:
* Ensure all improvements are focused on a safety first mentality.
* Develop formal training for others on lean and six sigma tools and principles.
* Train - trainers in lean and six sigma tools and principles.
* Coach others on lean and six sigma principles, projects, and tools.
* Coach - coaches on effective coaching and mentoring techniques.
* Facilitates kaizen throughout the business.
* Empower and involve everyone in the continuous improvement journey.
* Develop systems and mechanisms for idea capture, facilitate suggestions for improvement, recognize team members for their improvements.
* Ensure employee recognition is systemic in the organization.
Continuously Improve our business performance:
* Leader of problem solving tools and techniques to drive hands on problem solving activities (A3, DMAIC, PDCA, data analysis
* Lead cross functional teams in improvement events.
* Drive implementation of continuous improvement tools and systems.
* Create documentation, charts, labels to support visual factory efforts.
* Deliver cost savings projects to achieve site growth and productivity improvements.
* Support the achievement and documentation of all site growth and productivity requirements.
* Support development of project funnel to capture future opportunities and ensure moving forward in the CI journey.
* Drive 5S initiatives throughout the site, own sustainment and standardization of 5S efforts.
* Ensure standard work is developed and all processes in the site have and are working to standard work.
* Develop and deploy layered audit process for all standard work.
* Document and share best practices with other Albany sites.
Align teams to strategic priorities:
* Support hoshin working and reporting sessions.
* Support regular report out activities on continuous improvement projects.
* Assist in development of the annual and long term CI roadmap.
* Effectively communicate strategic priorities with cross functional teams.
* Develop and standardize sustainable improvement systems.
* Lead the development of KPI's for daily performance management connected with site strategy.
* Special projects and miscellaneous duties, as needed or assigned
Supervisory responsibility: No
Working Conditions: Indirect Labor: Office environment, moderate to quiet noise and not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions. Some travel <10% may be required.
Physical requirements:
* Occasionally positions self to move an office or production item.
* Frequently move about the production floor and office area to attend meetings or trainings
* Must be able to remain in a stationary position up to 75% of the time
* Frequently operates a computer, enters data into systems, verifies information, etc.
Day
Monday - Friday 7:00 am - 3:30
Qualifications:
* Bachelors Degree preferred, or 4 years direct equivalent experience
* 4 Years of manufacturing or related experience
* Aerospace or regulated manufacturing experience preferred
* Six Sigma Black Belt required or in progress
* Ability to lead project based activities with minimal... For full info follow appl
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We are an equal opportunity employer. Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran