Continuous Improvement Process Manager

About the position

Continuous Improvement Process Manager
Port Elizabeth
Market related salary offered
The Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) is an ongoing effort to improve products, services and processes. The ultimate objective of the Continuous Improvement Process is to ensure a culture where employees improve processes daily to continuously reduce all non-value adding activities, all overburden and any unevenness in all the processes.

• The successful incumbent must drive Continuous Improvement to quantitatively and qualitatively improve costs, quality and service.
• Train and educate the organisation and implement continuous improvement methodologies.
• Provide strategic leadership and tactical planning to ensure Continuous Improvement strategies are implemented and maintained.
• Lay & maintain the foundation for standardised work operations.
• Engage all levels of management in the PDCA process.
• Adopt lean tools, lean systems, lean behaviours and lean thinking that will lead and support improving business results.
• Be responsible for identifying OEE opportunities including tracking downtime results, improving data integrity and developing improvement plans based on the data.
• Driving shop floor Continuous Improvement through employee empowerment.

Professional Background / Basic Qualification / Work Experience:

• Degree / Diploma in Operations/Engineering field.
• Management experience, this position requires the incumbent to co-ordinate, facilitate and manage different projects in order to achieve the CIP objectives.

Please submit your resume to [Email Address Removed] before COB on 05 April 2024

Desired Skills:

• drive Continuous Improvement to quantitatively and qualitatively improve costs
• quality and service
• Provide strategic leadership and tactical planning
• Train and educate the organisation and implement continuous improvement methodologies
• Lay & maintain the foundation for standardised work operations.
• Adopt lean tools
• lean systems
• lean behaviours and lean thinking that will lead and support improving business results
• responsible for identifying OEE opportunities including tracking downtime results
• improving data integrity and developing improvement plans based on the data.
• Drive shop floor CI through employee empowerment.

Desired Work Experience:

• More than 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

• Diploma

About The Employer:

automotive component