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Design Continuous Improvement Leader
Sherwin-Williams
Brecksville, USA
Senior · 10+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 2 weeks ago
Full Job Posting
Qualifications
- Minimum Requirements • Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status) • Must be at least 18 years of age • Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, technology, operations, quality, or a related field. • 8 years of leadership experience in R&D, Quality, Operations, product development, or continuous improvement, including responsibility for complex cross-functional and multi-site initiatives. • Demonstrated experience designing and delivering technical training, mentoring certification candidates, managing improvement portfolios, and coaching leaders and project teams. • Advanced analytical and problem-solving capability, including DOE, MSA, FMEA, statistical modeling, data visualization, and appropriate statistical software. • Executive-level communication, facilitation, change leadership, project/program management, and stakeholder-influence skills. • Experience working across regions or global teams and willingness to travel as business needs require.
- Preferred Qualifications • Advanced degree • 10 years of leadership experience in R&D, Quality, Operations, product development, or continuous improvement, including responsibility for complex cross-functional and multi-site initiatives. • Black Belt certification or equivalent mastery of DFSS, DMAIC, Lean, advanced statistics, and structured problem solving required and Master Black Belt certification
- Successful candidate will be required to sign an Employee Restrictive Covenant Agreement where permitted by law.
- Minimum Requirements • Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status) • Must be at least 18 years of age • Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, technology, operations, quality, or a related field. • 8 years of leadership experience in R&D, Quality, Operations, product development, or continuous improvement, including responsibility for c
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the PCG Design Continuous Improvement strategy, roadmap, governance cadence, portfolio priorities, and measures aligned with business and customer needs.
- Lead the global DFSS program, including Champion training, Yellow/Green/Black Belt curricula, candidate mentoring, certification governance, refresher content, and regional capability expansion.
- Institutionalize design quality practices in product development, including voice of customer, critical-to-quality translation, House of Quality, measurement-system analysis, design of experiments, FMEA, statistical modeling, and robust design.
- Partner with business units to identify high-value opportunities and allocate resources to initiatives with the strongest customer, quality, growth, risk, speed, or financial impact.
- Lead strategic customer and product-quality improvement efforts using DMAIC, accelerated root cause, Lean, Kaizen, value-stream mapping, advanced analytics, and structured experimentation.
- Advance data and analytics solutions using approved citizen-data-science and workflow tools such as Dataiku, Power Automate, SharePoint, Business Objects, and related platforms.
- Drive measurable improvement in complaint resolution and complaint-rate processes, design-program adoption, FMAP maturity, toller governance, and applicable quality standards.
- Provide oversight and partnership for GBMS, ISO 9001 activities, management review, calibration governance, and related R&D quality-system programs, as assigned.
- Establish transparent dashboards and operating reviews for project count, validated savings, opportunity cost, schedule, adoption, compliance, customer outcomes, capability development, and key risks.
- Build an engaged, high-performing team through talent planning, objective setting, quarterly development conversations, recognition, job shadowing, coaching, succession planning, and cross-functional exposure.
- Communicate effectively with senior leaders, business partners, regional teams, and customers; escalate material risks early and recommend practical corrective actions.
- Promote a strong safety culture and comply with all applicable Company policies, quality requirements, and ethical standards.
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