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Job Description
Primary Responsibilities:
Responsible for managing the planning, facilitating, leading and completing of Lean Sigma Continuous Improvement (LSCI) projects to support cost reduction, productivity, and quality objectives of the company. This position is a key role in the companys efforts to improve Company systemic improvement capabilities and driving a culture of continuous improvement. Reporting to the Director of Lean Sigma Continuous Improvement of the region, Black Belts will support the development of onsite Green Belts and members of project teams.
 
Essential Functions:
1. First and foremost a project and kaizen event leader. Will lead site and cross-site improvement projects and teams to rigorously apply the LSCI methods to achieve business results. Must meet project goals and milestones.
2. Partner with process owners and business teams to create a culture which supports process management; data driven decision making; and continuous improvement and aligned with established strategy; vision; goals and objectives.
3. Partner with process owners and business team leaders to identify and select projects and implement Lean Six Sigma within their functions.
4. Lead, coach, train and mentor teams in the use of LSCI tools and processes; serving as a change agent assisting them in solving high level and/or complex problems resulting in breakthrough levels of performance improvement.
5. Train; coach; and challenge process owners in the use of statistical tools; approaches and techniques to create process management and measurement systems and develop a Six Sigma mindset at all levels.
6. Train and mentor Green Belts throughout the organization providing guidance and direction as needed to ensure they are successful with their projects.
7. Ensure effective control and adoption of improvements by local process owners. Lead efforts to implement process Control and Management-process mapping, documentation, metrics, monitoring systems and process ownership.
8. Support the implementation / leverage of best practices across the company to ensure process improvements are institutionalized throughout the business.
9. Maintain project performance measures on a regular basis to report to leadership on project status as required.
10. Delivery significant financial benefits to the company or customers.

Experience and Skills
Qualifications/Additional Skills and Abilities:
• Minimum: High school diploma (Preferred Level: some college)
• Minimum: 5+ years work experience. (Preferred 7+ years of diverse experience across multiple functions of distribution, logistics, or warehousing related industry)
• For external candidates: Industrial Engineering degree strongly preferred and/or equivalent experience.
• Minimum: 2+ years of supervisory or management experience
• Thorough understanding of business processes within areas of responsibility.
• Leader of Change & Innovation: challenges the status quo, effectively influences others (all levels of the organization) to embrace change, overcomes change resistance and seeks out outstanding ideas (whatever their source) and implements them.
• Structured Problem-Solving skills and experience: uses a systematic, disciplined and fact-based process that gets to root cause to solve problems (not firefighting), has analyzed and improved processes..
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership & Accountability: excellent team facilitation/leadership skills. Demonstrated teamwork/collaborative work style. Creates results-oriented team, clarifies roles, responsibilities and objectives, motivates and sustains team members and other stakeholders.
• Quantitative Data Analysis aptitude: enjoys working with numeric data, can synthesize quantitative data to draw business conclusions. Possesses good basic mathematical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation skills.
• Proficiency with basic PC software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
• Ability to travel required primarily within assigned region. Estimated 30-75% but will vary depending on business needs.
Key personal attributes or behaviors would include but not limited to the following:
• Naturally inquisitive disposition…seeks to understand and proactively improve.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple/detail-oriented tasks.