Industrial Continuous Improvement Manager

The Industrial  Continuous Improvement  Engineer will support industrial change management program (ICube Program)  across the PM EMEA Business Area. He / she will demonstrate a visible leadership on Safety and  People Empowerment/Enablement . He / she will be focused on continuous  industrial  improvements in order to improve productivity, energy efficiency, reliability, quality and cost of operations with no compromise on safety.  He /She will contribute to make her/his perimeter more competitive, safer, more customer oriented and unified. He /She will promote best industrial rituals  and operational discipline to deliver sustainable visible changes on the field.

JOB SCOPE

• Scope: PM EMEA  75 sites, 1.1bn€ of sales, 3700 employees in 24 countries,  divided on 10 operational Hubs.

• Direct report: PM EMEA Industrial  Continuous Improvement   & Quality Manager

• Team: Member of COE team (Center Of Excellence) supporting all Business Area  industrial operations. 

• Travels: up to 50% (short and long term missions) – we are looking for someone geographically mobile

• Ambitious targets on: Safety, Quality, Cost of sales, Visual Management , Housekeeping, Dust Management, Energy & Process Efficiency, industrial rituals of management.

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Continuous Improvement Engineer is a key position of industrial change management deployment and leads the implementation of various best practices. 

• Promote implementation of industrials basics  like : Rituals of Management, 5S, Dust Management.

• Insure sustainable Imerys Industrial Improvement program (ICube) roll-out: investigations and interviews, the performance of the plant on each of the targets defined in the Group reference documents. 

• Together with Hub teams, define key priorities and design an action plan to be put in place.

• Implement the action plan and define  the work to be done by the different teams on the site.

• Make sure goals are set to our highest standards, that processes are in line with benchmark, that results are achieved on time and that actions put in place are sustainable.

• Implement, promote and track the Saving Roadmap, OEE and all industrial  KPIs and routines used by PM EMEA

• Support the definition of sites specific industrial mid-term vision (3YP) in line with all levels of industrial management.

Accountability

• Industrial basics (Rituals)  implementation & sustainability

• Cost savings delivered as  budgeted

• Sustainability of savings  pipeline of idea  

• OEE improvement (Availability, Performance, Quality)

OTHER IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS

• Maintenance of our specific IT performance tracker tools (IT GSuite environment)

• Coaching and onboarding of new comers 

• Training about Continuous Improvement tools and processes to colleagues from all departments. 

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Education: 

• With Master’s degree in Mechanical, Process, Material  or Chemical Engineering

Experience: 

• More than  5 years seniority,  in an industrial environment .

• A demonstrated  project management experience is requested.

Technical skills: 

• Solid technical background  enabling to quickly understand all aspects of our technical clusters.

• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing tools

• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certified, highly appreciated.

• Knowledge about Statistical Process Control would be a plus.

• IT savvy. Advanced proficiency with Google Suite would be a plus.

Language:

• Fluent in English is mandatory.

• French and other European languages skills are highly appreciated.

SOFT SKILLS: 

• Ability to influence without authority

• Ability to prioritize tasks , project management and planning skills

• Ability to lead multi- disciplined and multi-cultural teams

• Rigor and Problem solving

• Analytical and synthetic mindset

• Excellent oral and written communication

• Good interpersonal skills

• Autonomy

• Teaching and coaching  skills.