Continuous Improvement Leader

Continuous Improvement Leader

Job Description

You were made to do this work: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision.

You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

Summary of Position:

This role is a fundamental position within the NA KCP Supply Chain.

The purpose is to execute lean transformation and drive business value through CI tools and methodologies across the assigned facility.

The role will provide leadership, vision, coordination, and functional direction to drive and sustain focused improvements in performance utilizing lean techniques and thinking. 

In this role, you will:

Facilitates, promotes, and supports lean cultural development, including:


* Executes focused transformations and operational excellence deployment utilizing an extensive playbook of lean tools and methodology.


* Coaches and develops teams to use lean techniques and thinking (leader as teacher).


* Uses lean MB&C, MS, and OS diagnostic tools to identify full potential opportunities and gap closure plans.

Facilitates the strategy deployment process within the Mill to support KCP True North, including -


* Works with mill leadership to support strategy deployment process, including CI 3 year roadmap.


* Champions problem solving processes (e.g., Kaizen) within the Mill to engage associates.


* Supports linkage of CI priorities and methodologies directly to facility results.

Develops, facilitates, and manages transformational improvement and operational excellence plans for focused assets/areas including –


* Executes the transformation standard across mills, supply chain, and business groups as identified by transformation and operational excellence agenda.


* Manages the introduction of tools and processes to support the transformation, as countermeasure to an identified problem.


* Facilitate kaizen events within the organization and provides coaching to others learning kaizen process.

Develops and manages systems and processes to ensure compliance with Plan, Do, Check, and Adjust processes within the Mill, including –


* Provides mechanism to track and report scorecard of Operational Excellence transformation measures through weekly/month accountability.


* Ensures all barriers to the acceleration change plan are identified and problem solved to achieve delivery of the implementation plan.


* Supports the internal governance / PDCA processes.

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