United States, Geneva, NY, Henkel Consumer Brands

Sr. Continuous Improvement Manager

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 50,000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Consumer Brands continuously drive the evolution in dynamic categories: Laundry & Home Care and Hair. With our trusted brands, including Persil and Schwarzkopf, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

Dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE Executes improvement projects and drives results.
Identifies and drives improvement to plant standards, such as visual management, standard work instructions, technical work instructions, centerlines, set up sheets machine parameter settings, etc.
Collaborates cross functionally to implement identified improvements.
Interfaces with global leaders to report out on local production system roadmaps, performance data, and best operating practices.
Analyzes business processes and performs line studies to identify opportunities and drive improvements. Identifies losses in efficiency for value streams and equipment and aids in implementing solutions to improve.
Collaborates to develop short- and long-term strategies to reduce waste.
Drives kaizen, implementation of TPM, and other projects focused on improving plant efficiency, machine reliability, sustainability, and the reduction of waste.


YOUR SKILLS 3+ years applying Lean methodologies in a manufacturing environment.
Highly developed understanding of TPM methodologies and implementation
Demonstrated ability to present proposals and projects to all levels of employees.
Ability to quantify improvements per KPI, lead RCA to solve production loss issues, lead change, and create process flows, value streams and flow diagrams.
Proficient in the use of value stream maps, fishbone diagrams, 5S, SMED visual management and other Lean tools Bachelor’s Degree in technical field, preferably in Manufacturing or Industrial Manufacturing preferred or 3 years of work experience

The salary for this role is $100,000.00 - $120,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

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