Sr. Continuous Improvement Specialist

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

At Givaudan, we are building a culture that embraces the traits and characteristics that make each one of us unique. Working here you will bring your skills, customer orientation and desire to work for a company that not only does well, but also does good. Our operations teams contribute to the manufacturing of products and solutions that touch billions of lives every day. Be yourself and feel unique as you belong within our culture of care, safety and inclusion.

As a Continuous Improvement Senior Specialist reporting to our Site Operations Director, you will lead the execution of Continuous Improvement projects within the site or specific function to embed best practices, promote a continuous improvement mindset and refine non-value added activities. This is an on-site role at our Bethlehem site, Pennsylvania.

In this exciting role, you will work on:

• Business Orientation
  • Contribute to the design of Site/Department strategies and deployment plans 
  • Identify and measure improvement opportunities; develop action plans as needed.
• People Engagement
  • Support in deploying CI Awareness workshops to all teams (e.g. CI basics training)
  • Incentivize everyone to share Good Practices.
• Capability Building
  • Follow up of CI capability building governance at Team/shop floor level 
  • Develop people by delivering training for basic CI Methodologies
  • Training includes:  CI Basics (5S, 8Wastes, Problem Solving), Yellow, Visual Performance Management, CI Maturity Assessment
• Problem Solving
  • Follow up of Problem Solving building governance at Team/shop floor level 
  • Coach project teams in applying problem solving techniques (ex: root cause analysis)
• Performance Management
  • Set up and help implement daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly performance management reviews at shift, department and site level including the definition of lagging and leading indicators
• Continuous Improvement Maturity Assessment (CIMA)
  • Support the CI Manager / Lead / Site or Department to prepare the CIMA Assessment and follow up with the teams based on CIMA outcome
• Process Efficiency
  • Train, coach and inspire teams in applying relevant CI tools and methodologies for improving Processes and Asset Efficiencies
• Work Standard
  • Support process owners on development of CI related work standards
  • Help teams to apply and comply with work standards (e.g. SOPs, OPLs)
• Business Impact
  • Lead and support specific business improvement projects
  • Coach project teams on applying Lean and Six Sigma tools during project execution phases.
  • Promote implementation progress of assigned CI projects, monitoring resource plans, project team accountabilities, change requests, deadlines, milestones, change management roadmaps, communications and manage periodic updates 
  • Report the financial and non-financial benefits for assigned improvement projects

You?

• University Degree required, ideally in Engineering fields or related.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification or equivalent CI training required.
• 3+ years of experience in Process Engineering or Project work.
• Track record on leading improvement projects, training and coaching CI principles.

Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision plans, tuition reimbursement, high matching 401k

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.