Performance Improvement Leader LOCATION: Bedford Heights, OH, US, 44146 REQ ID: 46799 If you are a current employee click here to apply. SEE designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. SEE strives to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance - a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. Our culture guides everything we do - how we partner with our customers and suppliers, attract and retain top talent, and create value for our stakeholders. SEE generated $5.5 billion in revenue in 2023 and has approximately 17,000 employees. The company operates out of 46 countries/territories, and our products are distributed in 115 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com. Job Description The Performance Improvement Leader is responsible for applying continuous improvement and lean manufacturing methodologies throughout the organization/plants and acts as a lean champion, driving Lean-Enterprise culture throughout the organization. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: * Implement Lean within the Manufacturing and Supply chain organizations * Provide intensive training for production teams and culture change within the organization * Teach, demonstrate and Coordinate Lean implementation and activities on the shop floor such as Kanban, Material Conveyance, Production flow, Super Market design and deployment, Value Stream Mapping, Takt time analysis, Problem-Solving, Standardized work, Set-up reduction, 5S, Visual Workplace, and Error-Proofing, 5S, TPM, SMED/QCO, Visual Factory, Kaizen, Scheduling, etc. * Ensure consistency of Lean methods * Assist plant Lean teams in sustaining gains achieved in Lean efforts. ----Support management team in implementing the best practices * Contact for overall Lean improvement plan development and implementation * Lead Kaizen events as and where needed * Set Lean reporting (projects and financials) system, and report regularly to Line and functional management * Manage follow-up of multiple projects in different production Sites * Exchange experiences with Lean organizations in other area Qualifications Required: * Bachelor's degree or higher required * Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant manufacturing work experience Preferred: * Degree in Chemical, Industrial, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering is highly preferred * Black Belt is highly preferred * Hands-on and has strong experience in production management with Lean implementation * Strong leader with a strong personality, who is able to convince the organization to do the move toward Lean * Advanced Training in Lean methodologies, 5s, SMED, VSM, Kaizen and other continuous improvement methodologies * Good understanding of financial measurements and goals in the Lean/Flow through-put world * Solid project management skills, team leadership skills, and excellent communication skills * Process improvement experience with demonstrated successful results driven application of the concept * Demonstrated success in leading and driving sustained change on the shop floor * Experienced in training, facilitating, and coaching of Lean concepts to all levels of an organization * Has led/participated/directed 50+ kaizen events on the shop floor and the ability to regularly work on the manufacturing floor and outside Requisition id:46799 Relocation:No SEE is committed to attracting, selecting