Continuous Improvement Leader

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you.

With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Continuous Improvement Leader, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Works with site leadership team to set short-term strategic direction and operating plans for assigned area of responsibility and defines guidelines/methods.
• Responsible for development site CI strategy for Continuous improvement. Will have direct responsibility and work with site leader for strategic planning and establishing improvement objectives.
• Complex problem solving requiring in-depth interpretation, analysis and improvement approaches. Improvement expertise/experience should encompass production, materials, transactional, warehouse, supply chain, Materials Resource Planning (MRP), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Portfolio and/or information flows. Ability to link process, execution and master data failure modes with projects to drive operational improvements that drive financial performance.
• Responsible for site/organization level goals, objectives, strategy and performance.
• Driving financial improvement across the site/organization
• Collaborates with front-line employees, support teams, department/function, supervisors/managers and operations leaders to determine goals, direction, and approaches for improvement.
• Responsible for working with site/ organization leadership team to determine approach and strategy for achieving operational and financial objectives.
• Teaching, mentoring and developing others (e.g. peers, supervisors, managers) in their ability to establish Continuous
• Improvement as a primary mechanism to improving financial and operational performance in their work centers, departments or areas.
• Use CI Dashboard to manage, maintain and communicate CI impact/performance to leadership at all levels.

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Five (5) years of experience in plant and/or operations leadership in a private, public, government or military environment
• Three (3) years of experience in developing and leading kaizen events in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Strong communication skills across all levels of the organization
• Ability to develop and execute strategic plans
• Ten (10) years of experience in plant operations, engineering, and/or maintenance functions
• Strength in leading and managing culture change
• Advanced data analysis and Microsoft Excel skills
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt experience or certification
• Coaching and teaching skills.
• Lean Manufacturing experience.
• Demonstrated results using continuous improvement methodologies.

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic travel

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially.

To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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