Continuous Improvement Manager

Hunter Douglas is the world’s leading manufacturer of window coverings and a major manufacturer of architectural products. We are a brand that you know and trust. With more than 100 years of innovation, we’ve defined our industry with proprietary products that deliver revolutionary style and functionality and can be found in millions of homes and commercial buildings globally.

We are searching for candidates that are driven, intelligent, creative, and entrepreneurial. By offering challenging and accelerated opportunities for growth, powered by a shared hunger for success, we create a space for your career to thrive. In return for your expertise, we are committed to providing competitive and robust total compensation and benefit packages to ensure you feel valued. Our dream is to become the fastest growing, most loved, window covering company in the world. What’s yours?

One of the pillars of our North American division is spread across four different sites in Mexico where a blend of manufacturing and fabrication occurs. At each location we pride ourselves on exemplary safety and employee-first standards, as we pioneer production processes to be best in class. It is our focus on quality and growth that makes us an employer of choice and helps us maintain our culture of excellence.

Position Overview

Responsible for facilitating a culture of continuous improvement and employee engagement. It investigates, plans, trains, executes, and facilitates operational improvement programs with the aim of creating a culture of continuous improvement and lean manufacturing that leads to associate empowerment, waste elimination, and improvements in safety, quality, service, and costs. It drives adherence to standard work and the execution of the Lean Management System. It leads Kaizen events according to program guidelines designed to drive and sustain continuous improvement initiatives. Identifying opportunities for Kaizen events that provide measurable and sustainable results. Developing and communicating metrics to measure continuous improvement, continuously monitoring and analyzing quantitative and qualitative results related to initiatives

What you'll do

• Skills in problem identification and resolution.

• Commitment to eliminating all types of waste.

• Ability to plan, prioritize, and organize work without close supervision; ability to effectively manage multiple projects with a record of accomplishment of successful project completion.

• Consideration of information and evaluation of potential courses of action, generating solutions to problems.

• Managing goals and high-quality work while maintaining a safe environment.

• Instituting a culture of continuous improvement for quality and efficiency.

• Fostering and promoting a collaborative environment.

• Maintaining motivation and enthusiasm through development to drive a high-performance culture.

• Living the company's mission and core values.

• Ability to work independently, making sound decisions regarding daily functions/priorities while reporting non-routine decisions to management.

• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills along with superior computer skills, namely SAP, BW, Excel, Word, PPTX.

• Excellent communication and teaching skills, with a great ability to unite employees and teams.

• Proven ability to adapt and effectively manage in a changing environment.

• Strong understanding of and commitment to manufacturing excellence.

Who you are

• Minimum education: completed relevant degree

• Minimum More than 3 years of experience leading and managing people, departments, and organizations, with leadership in production/plant management preferred.

• Leadership, people management, department, and organizational skills.

• Computer and analytical skills.

• High level of experience in management and leadership skills within a Lean environment.

• Experience in multi-site support preferred.

• Experience leading/facilitating multiple kaizen events/programs and/or key participant role in a major lean transformation initiative.

• Six Sigma certification desirable.

• Experience in a manufacturing environment.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive compensation package including annual bonus

• Generous benefits package including major medical expenses and life insurance

• Vacation days

• Vacation premium

• Christmas bonus

• Food vouchers and cafeteria service

• Savings fund

• Career developmental opportunities

• A company culture that prioritizes internal development

Please note, all offers presented to candidates are carefully crafted to ensure market competitiveness, equity, and reflect the individual candidate’s education, experience, skills and potential.

Hunter Douglas is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.

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