Continuous Improvement Analyst

Forward March Inc. is collaborating with a leading global industrial manufacturing company delivering innovative solutions to customers that span many industries including transportation, construction, industrial, agriculture, retail and energy. The company aims to expedite Veterans and military spouses towards significant career opportunities in this industry. Job description below:

Join our team as a Continuous Improvement Analyst. This position is responsible for supporting standard playbook operational initiatives. The Continuous Improvement Analyst works as an internal consultant to identify, conduct, and analyze business/production diagnostics in order to establish current state, set fact-based goals, and identify potential value at stake for transformation initiatives. This position will develop implementation planning; coach, mentor, and guide local team progress; and mobilize resources for the successful implementation of the transformation effort. Will work directly with manufacturing facility transformation site leads to complete progress and quarterly review material and guide all group calls and meetings. This position travels about 75% of the time to manufacturing facilities undergoing the transformation diagnostic or mobilization process. This role is multi-faceted and requires an analytical self-starter with strong leadership skills, that has the ability to work independently in an unstructured environment.

Responsibilities:

• Collects, analyzes, and interprets production data to drive performance and fact-based decision making.
• Assists in training on lean tools, analysis, root cause problem solving, and structuring of implementation planning requirements for all operational areas.
• Coaches, mentors, and guides local facility leadership to drive daily performance of transformation effort.
• Drives accountability and fosters local ownership of operational initiatives to ensure sustainability.
• Serves as a change agent to foster a high performance management culture at local facilities.
• Identifies and schedules transformation deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Plans, manages, analyzes, and delivers data for progress reviews.
• Provides guidance (sustaining capabilities) for deck-building and storylines for reviews.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Desired Experience:

• Possess analytical ability to break down complex problems into manageable pieces, creative thinking, analytical/quantitative analysis and fact-based data collection.
• Strong oral and written communications skills to act as a change agent.
• Adept at building trusting relationships while motivating/influencing others to adopt new best practices through fact-based analyses/discussion
• Excellent leadership skills and ability to motivate personnel and drive positive change within the organization
• Self-starter that is adept at taking initiative and a proven track record of setting high goals for themselves, pursuing and obtaining them.
• Strong organization and multi-tasking skills.
• Proven ability to work independently in an unstructured environment.
• Highly skilled in Microsoft Office, specifically PowerPoint and Excel
• Three to five years of experience

Benefits

Named to Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for in America list four times, and with a people first philosophy rooted in The Golden Rule (treating others the way we would want to be treated), our company provides a safe and rewarding work environment. We have a team-oriented culture and believe employees are essential to the company's success.

In addition to a competitive benefits package, we offer the ability for individuals to grow within our organization through training, development and advancement opportunities.

Company Perks:

• Comprehensive benefits with low premiums starting day one
• 401k with company match
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Company profit sharing
• Onsite barbershop / hair salon and fitness center
• Great team and team dynamics

Hesitant to apply because you may not meet every specific requirement? If this role is something you are interested in, but your previous experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply! At our company we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We recognize that individuals with diverse experiences and backgrounds are essential to our success. You may be the perfect candidate for this role or others within our organization.

Our company is a designer and manufacturer of market-leading brands that help enable people to live safer, healthier, and more expressive lives. We operate with three segments: Building Products, Consumer Products and Sustainable Energy Solutions. Our emphasis on innovation and transformation extends to building products including water systems, heating and cooling solutions, architectural and acoustical grid ceilings and metal framing and accessories, and consumer products in tools, outdoor living and celebrations categories sold under brand names Coleman®, Bernzomatic®, Balloon Time®, Level5 Tools®, Mag Torch®, Well-X-Trol®, General®, Garden-Weasel®, Pactool International® and Hawkeye™. We also serve the growing global hydrogen ecosystem through on-board fueling systems and gas containment solutions.

We are value-added partner to customers, featuring a wide variety of highly engineered products across Tools, Outdoor Living, and Celebrations. At our Chilton, WI facility we produce handheld torches and propane tanks which are essential for camping adventure and DYI’s. 

Our company, and its subsidiaries, is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered regardless of race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, disability or veteran’s status.

Please contact Laurin at [email protected] for more information.