Continuous Improvement Site Leader

Overview:
We are a technology company that aims to help people return home safely from their worksites by building smart safety systems. We have a hyper focused safety culture that puts our customers and our employee safety first. As a company, we aim for stable and sustained business growth and this strategy has supported our growth. We hire carefully to ensure our growth strategy as well as culture fit and value each hire tremendously. We hugely value learning and continuous improvement and believe strongly in furthering the careers of all our employees. We recognize that our careers can take us in different directions, and we value retention by recognizing and even encouraging this diverse career growth. Being a global organization, we are well positioned to have varied opportunities within the organization to support growth in different directions. Our compensation and benefits packages are competitive.

MSA is an organization that respects boundaries, encourages people to unplug and recharge, and prioritizes the well-being of everyone on the team, all while sustaining reasonable growth and remaining committed to our meaningful mission.

**Responsibilities**:
This position serves as the Continuous Improvement (CI) change agent to ensure CI Cultural strategies are developed. Additionally, this position is responsible for incorporating MSA-OS & Lean principles/practices in the plant process; implementing and facilitating improvement actions related to people development, quality, profitability, productivity, inventory, downtime and staffing requirements.

**1.**

**Plant Improvement Process & Projects**

40%
- Serve as change agent within the plant to develop and rollout Continuous Improvement strategy
- Leads the planning and execution of Continuous Improvement events (JDI/KZ/Projects), including facilitation of meetings
- Provides training to plant associates specific to Lean Manufacturing tools and methodology
- Supports team to ensure improvements are implemented and sustained

2.

**Continuous Improvement vision cultural changes**

30%
- Developing tactical strategies to achieve CI goals within the plant
- Coach site leadership in CI thinking
- Identifies long and short-term objectives to support the Plant goals,
- Proactively works with Management team to identify, address and eliminate obstacles Leads the change of systems/processes as required

3.

**Continuous Improvement Activities**

20%
- Identifies training needs,
- Schedules Kaizen events / Projects with the plant team,
- Coordinates prioritizes areas of focus/topics for the teams with the Plant Steering Committee
- Proactively communicates the direction of CI initiatives to all plant employees.
- Contributes to and supports plant cost saving initiatives

**4.**

**Data Analysis and Sustainability**

10%
- Examines and evaluates progress after improvement implementation
- KPI maintenance including tracking plant-level metric results using defined tools and documents reviewing new procedures/controls, and partnering with leadership on issue resolution
- Communicates results to all internal and external customers
- Conducts including participating in staff meetings to provide updates and periodic updates to plant associates
- Promotes and shares Best Practices with global CI peers

Qualifications:
**Experience (required)**:

- 8 to 10 years of experience in Operational Excellence with lean manufacturing implementation experience
- Experience leading and facilitating workshops/improvement activities in a manufacturing environment and delivering savings
- Experience accumulated in recognized world class lean environments (companies with solid Operational Excellence reputation)
- Knowledge and practical implementation of all lean tools and techniques: Heijunka, JIT, Kanban, SMED, TPM, Kamishibai, Jidoka, Takt time, etc.

**Experience (preferred)**:

- Experience in SAP, Excel and Power BI
- MES and Manufacturing digitalization experience

**Education (required)**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business

**Education (preferred)**:

- Master’s degree in Engineering or Business

**Travel**:
Estimated 10%