Senior Continuous Improvement Manager

Job ID: 8596 

Newell Brands is a leading $8.3B consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands such as Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid® and Sharpie®, and 25,000 talented employees around the world. Our high-performance culture, unparalleled curiosity about the world around us, and talented people fuel our success. Our culture is enabled through our core values which guide all we do and how we win as One Newell. They are Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership & Leadership.

Mission:

Reporting to General Manager, the Continuous Improvement Senior Manager shall actively focus on driving productivity through capability in people processes and technology. Leads and encourages groups for continuous improvement or progress projects. PEAK ( PLANNING, ENGAGEMENT, ACHIEVEMENT & KNOWLEDGE ) Newell’s brand improvement strategy, is fundamental to that goal & a crucial element in our future systems

Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Implementation of "Lean Manufacturing in the axes of quality, productivity, equipment maintenance and visual management, respecting the Group's safety requirements. Achieve objective performance improvement results through deployment of PEAK processes within manufacturing sites within Malaysia.
• Support delivery of business units strategy plans in building the capability and implementation of continuous improvement across the organization to meet defined goals and milestone.
• Support and build monthly, quarterly and annual deployment strategies & plans for PEAK / continuous improvement
• Operationally initiate the set of workshops, improvement groups, Kaizen and manage the continuous improvement leaders. Perform regular & periodic validation of each project and initiative with each function and operating unit.
• Teach, coach & facilitate  hierarchical line in all methods of progress relevant to the Plant and monitoring the multidisciplinary teams involved in the projects.
• Organize and lead communication regarding the Projects. Network with other global & organization leaders & to learn & share “Best Practices”
• Assess successes and progress.
• Sustain (PDCA) actions.
• Ensure compliance with the methods, including the accuracy of the calculation of the indicators of project performance.
• Maintain the "kaizen" state of mind in the Organization. Ensure that Kaizen / continuous improvement is impacting both results an cultural changes including – develop financial benefits of automation, driving engagement & linkage of individual & team activities to losses & business needs
• You must always take safety into account in both new and old projects, issues of adequacy of machinery, ergonomics in the workplace, standardization

Requirements:

• Technical Senior Engineer, with proven experience and  leading deployment of Continuous Improvement activities / within manufacturing sotes ( Ideally Black Belt certified)
• Comply with internal rules and regulations.
• TPM, Six sigma or equivalent continuous improvement background ( 5 years )
• Project management & experience in automation

Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to motivate, develop people, communicate, listen and perceive
• Ability to work from execution to shop floor level
• Excellent analytical, influence and communication skills
• Creative and flexible to support development of new solutions / ideas
• Excellent time management
• Leadership characteristics

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments.