Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Project Leader

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Lead Lean Six Sigma projects within the business unit and effectively coordinates these projects with the deployment champion and other improvement project teams.

These teams may be cross-functional.
• Project leadership includes identifying opportunities, defining and financially justifying projects, launching project teams, using good project management to manage team activities, leading teams to execute projects with the problem solving methodology, tracking project status and results, removing and elevating project barriers and developing team members.
• Identify integration issues with other projects/processes and coordinate the improvements with the appropriate project/process owners to accomplish the project goals.
• Manage the development and maintenance of methods and systems for measuring the degree to which the project goals, objectives and metrics are being met.
• Provide deployment champion with the results and recommend appropriate corrective action.
• Provide coaching and direction to the Kaizen Leaders to ensure LSS methodologies are applied and projects are completed successfully.
• Ensure two way open communication throughout the organization for Lean Six Sigma.
• Capturing project lessons learned that can be reused for other projects.
• APEX implementation assistance, evaluations, and auditing.
• LSS Training execution and management (White Belt, APEX, 6S)
• Other LSS or APEX related duties as assignedQualifications

Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree required; or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Project management experience, team facilitation, data analysis, change management, best practice translation, and process improvement experience is ideal.
• 5 years' relevant experience (Supply chain planning, manufacturing, process improvement, risk management, change management) preferred.
• Completion of LSS Black Belt certification.
• Avient integrates EHS&S into all aspects of our operations.

Each position at Avient is responsible for complying with all applicable EHS&S requirements.

Additionally, employees and management are responsible for reporting all EHS&S incidents immediately to ensure we keep EHS&S a priority within the organization

Additional Qualifications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Highly analytical, with the ability to interpret and leverage complex data.
• Results-oriented self-starter capable of driving initiatives independently and through teams.
• Proven ability to influence and engage stakeholders across the organization.
• Effective reporting skills, with the ability to synthesize data into clear, actionable insights.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability using data from multiple systems and reporting tools.

Physical Demands
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and sit...