Associate Director - Continuous Improvement

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About this role

Carrier is the world’s leader in high-technology heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration solutions. Our organization is committed to being a leader in our industry. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are looking for an opportunity to join us in this commitment, then we have an excellent opportunity for you. We seek a motivated, results-oriented individual to continue to raise our high bar in operations standards as a manufacturing engineer.

Each day, our team is working to meet some of the most unique and exciting global challenges. In order to continue to maintain our role as a global leader, we continue to seek talented, ambitious individuals to join our continuous improvement culture.

We are seeking a high energy, data driven, results-oriented Carrier Excellence/Lean Leader to facilitate the transformation of our world class factories in Carrier Residential, specifically our Indianapolis furnace factory.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of lean processes across the Indianapolis manufacturing site
• Create the lean vision and implement a lean strategy to reduce inventory, lead-time, and waste at both plants and associated suppliers
• Drive measurable improvements that support metrics for customer delivery, productivity, and product flow
• Formulate plans and teams to develop pull systems, training personnel, and other activities to achieve world-class process flow
• Develop value stream maps for the organization and eliminate process waste through implementation of lean techniques
• Guide plant teams in developing and executing lean plans to reduce inventory, lead-time, and waste and to improve process quality
• Promote Six Sigma/Lean integration utilizing strength of both methods to achieve business goals
• Assist Plant Managers in establishing product flow for plant value streams utilizing visual management tools
• Encourage use of lean tools to pull material from suppliers and internal sources/customers
• Train site on lean concepts and mentor people using lean tools

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 10+ years of experience in productivity improvement and continuous improvement within a manufacturing setting

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• Master’s Degree with 7+ years of experience in productivity improvement and continuous improvement within a manufacturing setting

Preferred Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering
• Deep experience with current continuous service techniques, including involvement with kaizen, value stream mapping, one-piece flow, Action Work Outs, 3P, and/or other lean tools
• Experience in a manufacturing leadership position across multiple facilities using current production and process techniques
• Effective at leading change and influencing at all levels of the organization
• Excellent communication skills and ability to tailor communications to different audiences

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