Continuous Improvement Specialist

Continuous Improvement Specialist

Requirements

• Post Secondary education in engineering or business.
• 3–5 years relevant work experience
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification, Black Belt preferred.
• Good analytical skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to travel to sites

Responsibilities

• Drive Continuous Improvement Initiatives in providing value-add analytical and business intelligence support to all CHEP SC/3rd Party Operations functions.
• Utilize Lean Six Sigma principles to drive CI initiatives and operational excellence in order to improve safety and productivity metric, reduce waste and deliver cost savings.
• Drive the implementation of innovative and creative ideas, methods, and process improvements for all CHEP SC/3rd Party Operations.
• Promote operational excellence and a culture of continuous improvement, challenge the status quo persistently.
• Serve as a change agent, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and driving actions across various levels of the organization to ensure added value and the effectiveness of implemented processes and tools.
• Identify improvement opportunities, develop, and manage improvement plans, and lead improvement initiatives with SC champions and process owners. Identify gaps and design new processes, while improving safety performance metric, reduce waste, and save costs.
• Lead national implementation.
• Develop analyses and models for projects and continuous improvement of processes, working collaboratively across functions to develop optimal low cost/high value solutions as prioritized by Supply Chain leadership.
• Provide robust data analysis focused on cost reductions, process improvements, and strategic initiatives for the Canadian Operations and Supply Chain team.
• Drive continuous improvement training program within CHEP / 3PL operations, in collaboration with plant champions and OPEX team, provide training and coaching to employees on lean and continuous improvement methodologies to execute improvement projects.
• Analyze data using LEAN Six Sigma statistical data analysis methods.
• Conduct problem-solving, root cause analysis, Gemba Walks, KAIZEN events, and CI improvement workshops.
• Develop and analyze key performance indicators to monitor and track the impact and benefits of improvements in support of the company’s objectives.
• Implement and develop necessary procedures, tools, flow charts, templates and online tools and apps.
• Drive best practice development and implementation.
• Conduct process maturity assessments and audits.
• Assists plants with various operational issues, SAP, Procurement and Coupa.

Preferred Qualifications

• Essential: English
• Desirable: French