Continuous Improvement Leader

Eurofins Built Environment Testing is seeking a Continuous Improvement Leader to join our team! The Continuous Improvement Leader will be in charge of developing, planning, and executing the strategy that results in eliminating waste, improving customer satisfaction, and increasing market share. The Continuous Improvement Leader is not only highly competent as a process manager skilled in project design, planning, and implementation to ensure performance and process development, but also as a leader who drives the CI initiatives set for Eurofins Built Environment Testing.

 Continuous Improvement Leader responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

• Managing and facilitating all Continuous Improvement initiatives and strategy
• Driving a continuous improvement culture within the organization by prioritizing opportunities and execution of a Lean transformation strategy and metrics
• Using metrics to provide support to process owners in linking projects to strategic operational objectives
• Driving plant cost savings initiatives
• Assisting teams in developing Lean roadmaps to use in the deployment of strategic objectives
• Ensuring successful definition and execution of large, cross-functional improvement initiatives tied to annual strategic priorities
• Identifying best practices within and outside the company and serving as a channel for best-practice sharing and adoption across business units
• Providing guidance for projects and kaizen events
• Managing and facilitating continuous improvement projects and kaizen events to improve productivity and accelerate growth
• Challenging organizational leaders when necessary to create an action-based culture of continuous improvement and increase CI and Lean-oriented thinking throughout the organization
• Working with the finance department to evaluate project savings estimates, validate reported CI benefits, and ensure accurate accounting of CI productivity

Some core responsibilities of the Continuous Improvement Director:

• Analyzing company processes and procedures
• Developing process enhancement strategies
• Establishing norms and standards of company performance
• Monitoring staff performance and organizational processes
• Communicating ideas and opinions to other members of management
• Training, mentoring, and guiding team members in new processes
• Staying up-to-date with developments in management and process optimization
• Providing reporting regarding process updates and overall results and company performance