Sr. Specialist, Continuous Improvement

Ref# 17031

Waterdown, Ontario

Essential Responsibilities 

Work across all functional disciplines of the organization; focusing on transformational business improvements, operational excellence, and continually enhancing our improvement tool sets and methodologies. The ideal candidate is passionate about leading change, driving results, and promoting a culture of improvement.

• Continuous Improvement Programs: Lead Gemba and 6S maturity assessment, training and improvements across the site.
• Operational Excellence: Support teams in operational excellence journey through people engagement, facilitation of kaizen, and driving customer focus.
• Opportunity Development: Collaborate with functional leadership to develop and define continuous improvement opportunities aligned with the organizations key results and objectives.
• Facilitation: Ability to engage a cross-functional team through kaizen planning, facilitation and closure.
• Process Analysis: Facilitate the collection, analysis and visualisation of existing process data aligned with the customer value stream to improve safety, quality, and cost.
• Lean / Six Sigma: Application and coaching of lean & six sigma tools to eliminate waste and reduce process variation within project teams.
• Project Management: Lead cross-functional teams in planning, execution and monitoring of improvement projects, ensuring timely completion and validated attainment of objectives.
• Change Management:  Ensure successful adoption of change through effective management of the human side of change.
• Training, Development and Learning: Provide coaching and mentoring to Lean Expert and Green Belt candidates, support and provide training of lean tools and methodologies, and identify self-development opportunities.
• Contribute to Culture: Stay above the line while working with complex changes and conflict. Engage and contribute to the continuous improvement mindset.
• Conflict Resolution:  Ability to identify, address and resolve conflicts that arise during cross-functional activities to minimize disruption, risk and sustain team cohesion, while fostering psychological safety and open collaboration.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience
• Project Management Professional Certification considered an asset
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification an asset - Green Belt Minimum
• 5+ years’ experience in CI
• Experienced in working with cross-organizational teams

Preferred Additional Skills

• This position requires a self-starter with an engaging style.
• Utilize solid influencing and facilitation skills who will develop relationships and build on a collaborative work environment.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving and ability to coach others in the methodology
• Demonstrated working knowledge with Lean and Six Sigma tools
• Planning and time management
• Develop and continuously improve practices based on industry benchmarks and internal teams’ experience and learning
• Ability to work effectively and facilitate functional teams of all levels
• Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills
• Strong verbal and written communication and organizational skills
• Action oriented and ability to make decisions
• Data query and collection an asset
• Data visualization an asset