Director of Continuous Improvement

Company Background

Sensience is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered sensing, control, and sealing components.   

We deliver mission-critical protection and valuable data for a wide range of systems, including appliances, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration units, industrial process equipment, motor vehicles, and aerospace.  We have over 3,000 employees worldwide across 5 manufacturing facilities dedicated to keeping people and their homes safe.

Sensience brings a track record of over 75 years of innovation, quality, specialized expertise, a highly collaborative approach, and a commitment to growth – working together with our customers as valuable partners, helping to meet their critical objectives. We recently re-established ourselves as an independent company and looking for entrepreneurial minded candidates to help our company grow.

Position Summary

We are seeking a hands-on leader as our Continuous Improvement Director that will execute the Sensience strategy for the implementation of operations process improvement initiatives. The incumbent will provide leadership by implementing Lean methodologies across the entire Company mainly in production locations in Mexico, China, Thailand and the United States. They will create guidelines, training, and standard methods to provide a consistent implementation in all Sensience locations worldwide. Also, they will assist in the identification of key leaders for operations process improvement implementation at each location.

Position Responsibilities

• Establish Sensience Operating System to be followed by each Sensience location for methods to be used in the implementation of operations process improvement.
• Provides consistency among all facilities in areas such as 5S+1, Visual Factory, performance metrics, displays, etc.
• Works with Executive Leadership Team, Plant Managers, Operations Managers, and other key leaders and continuous improvement resources to achieve corporate KPIs.
• Helps develop resources and skill sets in each site/department to support the Company’s operations process improvement strategy.
• Coordinate, develop, implement and provide operations process improvement training/workshops for implementation and refresher sessions as required. 
• Evaluate current practices, recommend changes, and monitor implementation activities to better achieve increased customer, productivity, and inventory management and enhance Sensience’s global growth potential.
• Participates in the yearly value stream mapping budget review process and helps develop the manufacturing strategy for the plant.
• Lead Kaizen events including value stream mapping exercises across locations.
• Supports plants to achieve yearly targets for cost reductions and capital spending.
• Guide and collaborate with manufacturing and quality engineering teams for all manufacturing departments to drive production improvements, PPM reductions, and New Product Launch.
• Ability to work extended periods onsite at plant locations as needed.
• Up to 50% travel will be required.

Position Requirements:

• BS degree in Engineering or related discipline, OR a minimum of fifteen (15) years’ experience in operations, and manufacturing-related assignments. Previous managerial experience required.
• Lean Champion Certified. Black Belt, 6 Sigma Certification
• Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Working knowledge of MS Office, or equivalent productivity suites, currently in use by the Company.
• Strong written & verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated judgment & decision-making capability.
• Demonstrated organizing & planning capabilities.
• Ability to travel both US domestically and internationally as needed up to 50%.

Sensience is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE):  race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, or any status protected by applicable law.   

This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future are not eligible for hire.