Continuous Improvement Manager

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 50,000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Consumer Brands continuously drive the evolution in dynamic categories: Laundry & Home Care and Hair. With our trusted brands, including Persil and Schwarzkopf, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

The Henkel Bowling Green, KY manufacturing facility is looking for top talent to lead our facility to Best in Class performance levels and culture.  We have a clear 3-5 year journey laid out to build capability and drive to ZERO losses using world class processes.  If you enjoy working with others and have a passion for improvement, come join our winning team! 

Dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE

This position is responsible for continuous improvement activities for a production group.  

• Identifies and drives improvement to plant standards, such as visual management, standard work instructions, technical work instructions, centerlines, set up sheets, machine parameter settings, etc. 
• Collaborates cross functionally to implement identified improvements. 
• Analyzes business processes and performs line studies to identify opportunities and drive improvements.
• Identifies losses in efficiency for value streams and equipment and aids in implementing solutions to improve. 
• Drives kaizen, implementation of TPM, and other projects focused on improving plant efficiency, machine reliability, sustainability and the reduction of waste. 

YOUR SKILLS

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field, preferably Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering.
• Three (3) years minimum experience applying Lean methodologies in a manufacturing environment.
• Highly developed understanding of TPM methodologies and implementation required.
• Ability to quantify improvements per KPI, lead RCA to solve production loss issues, lead change, and create process flows, value streams and flow diagrams.
• Proficient in the use of value stream maps, fishbone diagrams, 5S, SMED visual management and other lean tools.  

The salary for this role is $69,000.00 - $128,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range.  This salary range may also be modified in the future.

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At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different races, colors, religions, sexes, national origins, disabilities, veteran statuses, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and other legally protected characteristics.