Continuous Improvement Supervisor
- Req. Number: OTC/1444811
- City, State: Columbus, Ohio
- Posted Date: 11/27/2024
Supervisor, Continuous Improvement
Remote (travel required)/Columbus, Ohio
Status: Full Time
Job Category: Operations: Continuous Improvement
Relevant Work Experience: 5-10 years
Relevant Work Experience: 5-10 years
JOB SUMMARY
At OTC Industrial Technologies, we believe that our employees are our greatest strength. Through investment in our people and growth from within, we believe in providing you with a wide variety of opportunities to accelerate your career potential as you help us drive change to move our business forward.
For over 60 years, employing and developing the best-in-class talent has been at the forefront of our success. By coupling our teams' hands-on experience with a wide range of products from top vendors, we provide customers with the best quality products and technical application expertise and services at the lowest possible costs.
The Continuous Improvement Supervisor is an ultimate team player, dedicated to creating value at every opportunity. This individual is resilient, adaptable, and committed to pushing the organization forward in its mission to provide customers with unparalleled service through operational excellence
This position plays a critical role in driving operational excellence and fostering a culture of continuous improvement across the organization. Additionally, this role is focused on elevating efficiency, productivity, and quality by leading and supporting initiatives that directly impact key business areas, including safety, customer value, quality, productivity, cycle time, growth, margin expansion, delivery, and inventory management.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
This position will provide leadership and oversight of the Continuous Improvement team to accomplish the following essential functions:
- Push innovative boundaries to enhance the customer experience, fostering a service model that is grounded in operational simplicity and efficiency.
- Lead and support multiple improvement projects from concept through execution, ensuring projects are on time, within scope, and aligned with the company's goals for quality and productivity.
- Drive progress, eliminate waste and focus on short & long term strategies.
- Support the OTC teams in implementing lean transformation and daily management across the organization in a standardized way.
- Actively identify, design, and implement process improvements that reduce waste, streamline workflows, and elevate operational performance.
- Works with senior leadership to set strategic initiatives to drive growth, performance, profitability, strategy, staff development, and opportunity development.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the effectiveness of continuous improvement efforts. This includes setting targets and continuously reviewing metrics to ensure initiatives are driving positive, measurable impact.
- Ensure OTC's Operations Methodology is applied in a way that supports business performance and true alignment of business goals and objectives across all segments.
- Participates in Gemba walks
- Provides necessary training specific to Lean Transformation tools and methodology.
- Execute key activities as part of Lean Transformation and daily management
- Support the launch of all activities needed to incorporate Lean Transformation and daily management into the OTC culture, including:
- Assisting in identifying on-going training needs
- Supporting communication of the direction of Lean Transformation and daily management initiatives to employees
- Utilizing a change management model to drive the lean culture transformation for the segments
- Ensure high levels of engagement for Rapid Improvement Events
- Drive OpEx culture change through coaching of employees and leaders to drive lean behaviors, and follow the principles and practices of OTC
- Track all changes/improvements made to provide Segment Leadership/Management assurance that changes are effective and lasting.
- Up to 75% travel required.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- 5 - 10 years of related experience in the manufacturing or distribution industry.
- 3 + years of leadership experience capable of driving organizational change
- Experience with cost out methodologies and targets.
- Experience in continuous improvement (e.g. Lean, 5S, Six Sigma, Kaizen, etc.)
- Strong knowledge in computers (MS Office).
- Technical skills, manufacturing processes, distribution process and / or materials knowledge.
- APICS CPIM Certification or equivalent experience preferred.
- Coach high-level leaders throughout the segment, including sales, CX, engineering, product management and operations, and ensure transformation priorities are aligned to the top overall business needs and Operational Excellence thinking is utilized in solution approaches.
- Coach all processes through lean execution and behavior changes. Develop a highly effective Daily Management process. Provide coaching on basic lean fundamentals of one-piece flow, on demand, zero defects and standardized work. Deployed techniques such as basic problem solving, Kaizen and A3 thinking and tools including Kanban, Value stream mapping, visual management, pull, TPM, SMED and 5S.
- Coached and developed the full time OpEx change leaders and grew their OpEx knowledge and execution capabilities. Mentored the team to be true agents of change. Improved their change management capabilities (tools and behaviors) and ensured rigor around conducting rapid improvement events.
- Demonstrated Financial acumen that provides cost estimates and capital expenditure justification as necessary, and accurately projected and tracked savings.
- Ensured compliance with standard processes and tools, supported the segment team to develop and follow their personal standard work (leaders and associates) that yielded a culture of system, process, and behavior discipline that provided results using lean principles.
Who we are:
At OTC Industrial Technologies, our people drive our success. With over 60 years of prioritizing talent investment and internal growth, we offer diverse career opportunities. We deliver top-quality products, technical expertise, and services at competitive costs by leveraging our team's experience and partnerships with leading vendors. Join us if you're motivated to be part of an exciting transformational journey. To learn more about OTC, CLICK HERE.
OTC Industrial Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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