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Advanced Drainage Systems Regional Continuous Improvement Leader in Findlay, Ohio
Advanced Drainage Systems
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Advanced Drainage Systems is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Regional Continuous Improvement Leader
US-OH-Findlay
Job ID: 2024-17333 Type: Regular Full-Time # of Openings: 1 Category: Manufacturing Advanced Drainage Systems
Overview
At ADS, no idea is off limits, and we celebrate creativity and bold moves.
For more than 50 years ADS has been manufacturing a variety of innovative and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional materials. Headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio, we are a multi-billion dollar stormwater management company, manufacturing pipe and ancillary products. What does that mean? When it storms, we capture rain with our drain basins, convey it with pipe, store it using chambers and finally treat it with our water quality products, before safely returning water back to the environment. We handle, what we call, the entire lifecycle of a raindrop. Our products help prevent flooding, which increases quality of life for people living in large cities, suburbs, and rural towns. We also believe in creating a circular economy and are the largest plastic recycling company in North America. We use plastic shampoo and detergent bottles to create pipe, diverting over 500 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. ADS operates a global network of over 60 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers.
We have amazing stories to tell, and we need your help getting our story out there. To learn more about ADS, please visit our website at
www.adspipe.com.
Responsibilities
The Continuous Improvement Leader works as part of a team that coordinates and strategically leads performance improvement throughout the manufacturing operations using Lean, Six Sigma and other Operational Tools and Methodologies. The CI Leader will be involved in all facets of operations, safety, quality, engineering, logistics, providing project and process improvement support. The successful CI Leader is able to develop and deliver LSS training content in both workshop environments and remotely by conference calls or webinars. The CI Leader is a mentor and coach for the factory leadership teams to strengthen capability in areas of lean operations and change management.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:
Drive the development and implementation of CI improvement plans consistent with and in support of the strategic plan and business operating plan.
Lead local improvement teams both directly on selected projects and through other team leads as needed.
Mine and analyze data to support the project selection process.
Provide training and develop training-related materials.
Follow-up and audit project progress to ensure results are achieved and sustained.
Resolve implementation issues, creating and managing implementation communication processes, and ensuring consistency
of implemented process