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Continuous Improvement Manager

3 months ago

Wood Dale, United States nVenia, A Duravant Company Full time

nVenia, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, is a manufacturer and supplier of integrated solutions and packaging equipment machinery. With over 300 years of combined experience, our long-standing brands of Arpac, Fischbein, Hamer and Ohlson serve end customers in the consumer-packaged goods, food and beverage, industrial, and other markets.


The Continuous Improvement Manager is responsible for driving improvements across nVenia. Key duties include leading continuous improvement projects and teams, advancing cost reduction initiatives, implementing best manufacturing methods, resolving production issues, and developing processes to enhance our manufacturing approach. The primary goal of the Continuous Improvement Manager is to reduce waste and inefficiencies, thereby decreasing lead times and increasing quality and gross profit.


ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBLITIES

  • Develop and lead Continuous Improvement initiatives.
  • Create a culture that fosters continuous improvement, excellence, and accountability.
  • Ensure teams have the skills, tools, and structure to support company needs.
  • Actively develops, manages, and executes the “Continuous Improvement Roadmap” and ensures alignment with larger group and company strategies. This includes development and maintenance of a robust CI project funnel, effective facilitation of kaizen and “just do it” process improvement initiatives, and engagement of site/group team members to accelerate improvement.
  • Build foundational daily management processes and analytics. Provide training, establish processes, expectations, and deployment to establish rigor around daily management to maximize growth, revenue, and operating profit.
  • Take a “hands-on” approach to driving process improvements to ensure the organization is using the best practices related to its Operations.
  • Effectively leverage tools, such as JIT, kanban, visual metrics, flow optimization, standard operating procedures, 5S, kaizen, Toyota Production System (TPS), and SMED, to drive continuous improvement activities to advance overall operations.
  • Improve productivity, efficiency, safety and throughput while eliminating waste.
  • Analyze current product designs, manufacturing processes, test procedures, floor layout, and material flow to develop new processes to improve production techniques that result in a more cost efficient manufacturing process.
  • Lead cross-functional teams in continuous improvement activities, process redesign, and waste elimination.
  • Work with Engineering to drive the Design for Manufacturability on new designs.
  • Create and conduct training throughout the organization to introduce lean / continuous improvement initiatives, processes, and safety protocols.
  • Review and recommend performance metrics and audits to drive continuous improvements.


POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • B.S. degree in Mechanical/Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent a plus
  • Minimum 10 years’ experience in an industrial/manufacturing/quality/process improvement capacity
  • Solid understanding and knowledge of the workflow in a machining and assembly operations.
  • Proven track record in continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles – JIT, kanban, visual metrics, flow optimization, standard operating procedures, 5S, kaizen, Toyota Production System (TPS), problem solving and SMED.
  • Demonstrated experience driving improvement through kaizen activities including but not limited to Standard Work, SMED, 3P, Material Pull, Problem Solving, and Transactional Process Improvement (TPI)
  • Ability to mentor and facilitate lean culture - strong communication and influence skills to work with individuals and to train others
  • Ability to work and influence all levels of an organization from senior leaders, specialists and operators in different functional areas


Why join nVenia?

  • nVenia offers a competitive benefits package for all full-time employees, including the following:
  • Medical coverage through your choice of a high deductible health plan or a PPO plan. All plans include prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible spending accounts, when allowed by tax laws
  • Health Savings Accounts (HSA), when allowed by tax laws. Our HSA includes a 2x match, up to $1,000 annually
  • Dental and Vision Coverage
  • Paid life insurance and disability insurance, and options to purchase additional coverage
  • Paid Maternity Leave
  • Optional coverage's include Long-term Care, Accident Insurance, and Critical Illness Insurance
  • 401k plan with a 100% match on the first 3% of employee contributions, and 50% on the next 2% of contributions (4% match if you contribute 5% of pay)
  • Educational Assistance reimbursement
  • Accrued paid time off (PTO) – 3 weeks per year
  • 10 paid holidays annually