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Job Purpose and Impact

The Continuous Improvement Specialist will develop, implement and sustain process improvement initiatives. In this role, you will conduct continuous improvement activities and lead cross-functional projects with low to medium project cost and risk, and activities with well-defined processes. You are responsible for data collection and analysis within the project teams and for developing and embedding new ways of working across the organization. The CI specialist uses his facilitation skills and ability to lead root cause analysis sessions and project meetings and you are able to create communication plans for conveying the right information about the project to the organizational leaders and other stakeholder. 

Key Accountabilities

• Directly provide updates on the project objectives, performance measures, issues and risks to senior staff.
• Identify, monitor, and implement continuous improvement best practices.
• Develop and handle continuous improvement plans for projects with low to medium cost and risk in order to reach and sustain project goals.
• Lead multi-disciplinary improvement teams
• Conduct organization readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization, resource evaluation and execute continuous improvement strategies that meet business requirements.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of two years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of four years experience in the chemical industry or similar working environment
• Having a Lean Six Sigma Green belt is considered a plus