Director, Continuous Improvement
Delicato Family Wines
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Napa • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $126,530 - $197,914 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Acting on own initiative, the Director Continuous Improvement will proactively guide key stakeholders in identifying business opportunities where Lean, Six Sigma and continuous improvement methodologies will deliver increased efficiency and cost reduction throughout the organization.
- Responsible for facilitating and managing projects which identify, analyze, and solve business challenges, enhance processes, improve systems, eliminate waste, increase efficiency, and identify cost savings across the organization.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and coach/train within all levels of the organization.
- Develop lean project communications and change management plans to ensure collaboration.
- Develop staffing needs; attract, motivate, and retain a workforce with the appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve goals and objectives.
- Utilize Six Sigma statistical analysis to help teams reduce variation and defects in their process.
- Facilitates team project reviews to track progress, provide appropriate steering, and escalation of issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Business, or Supply Chain
- 10+ years in manufacturing, business or supply chain, or related field with a proven track record of business results
- 3-5 years of focused Lean, Six Sigma, Formal continuous improvement, and change management projects, Toyota Production system, preferred
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills inclusive of change management methodology
- Must have ability to influence at all levels of the organization
- Must have a proven collaborative approach and a team player
- Must have excellent interpersonal, time management, decision making and conflict management skills
- Passion for driving business improvement and leading changes in a complex environment
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills
- Detailed knowledge of quality theory/6 sigma, TPS Lean methodology and tools
- Advanced technology application skills in Microsoft project including project management
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- life and disability insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) with generous company match
- discretionary profit sharing
- paid time off (PTO)
- paid holidays
- wine & merchandise discounts
- tuition reimbursement
- gym discounts
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
LeanSix Sigmacontinuous improvementstatistical analysischange managementToyota Production Systemquality theoryproject management
Soft skills
communicationinfluencecollaborationinterpersonaltime managementdecision makingconflict managementcoachingmentoring