Description SR. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MANAGER This position can be fully remote
About the Position Responsible for creating, leading, and managing continuous improvement (CI) strategies and corporate initiatives for the Company, in partnership with the senior leadership team and under the guidance of the mission of the Company at-large. This position provides coaching, training, and influence to ensure the Company culture is built and maintained with a key focus on CI thinking, methodologies, and behaviors, in alignment with all Company policies, procedures, key objectives and regulations. This position partners with other members of senior leadership to define the strategic direction, provide key communications and direct the CI tools and activities for Company management and leadership.
Our Ideal Candidate - Has a growth mindset and is always looking to continually learn and grow.
- Has managed continuous improvement (CI) strategies and corporate initiatives
- Has Excellent Communication skills and able to collaborate cross functionally
Day in the Life - Partners with senior leadership to define and maintain the Company's mission, vision, values and establish CI goals and objectives. Ensures annual CI budgets align with key short and long-term goals.
- Shares the vision and demonstrates all Company values. Provides implementation, deployment across the platform, and results-focused consulting to site/organization leaders across multiple sites. Interaction is primarily focused on providing guidance on how to improve, approach, identify and understand a root cause driver to performance with managers, site, and organizational leadership.
- Leads, guides, and helps create solutions for highly complex and multi-faceted problems. Problems are unique and require a thorough understanding of operating unit policies and practices. Applies knowledge of different techniques and practices to achieve desired results. Utilizes resources across work areas, departments, and businesses to create solutions.
- Creates solutions which have a major business impact on the organization. Solutions usually relate to a large, established business process or a medium, developing business group with high complexity or growth potential. Decisions typically have long-term impacts on more than one area of the organization and/or multiple sites.
- Provides general oversight of all CI activities and manages the day-to-day tools, methodologies, and strategies for project teams with CI initiatives. Recommends staffing and training for CI activities and initiatives. Manages all related systems initiatives and prioritizes those activities as appropriate. Measures and reports on the performance of CI results.
- Oversees activities, goals, reporting and budgeting for all groups engaged in CI initiatives. Researches, selects, and promotes CI programs and services which are cost-effective and bring high quality tools and value to the Company.
- Facilitates and integrates the Company into the fabric of all key business communities it serves by effectively communicating key CI activities and programs. Acts as an advocate within the businesses the Company is associated with on projects to support and facilitate CI behaviors and related project tools.
- Manages monthly financial forecasting and annual budget development for CI across the organization. Accurately and confidentially maintains Company records and other sensitive business and client data and intellectual property.
- Builds and maintains strategic and effective relationships with clients and future clients, foremen, project teams, specialty contractors, vendors, suppliers, user groups and others that reflect and support the Company's core values and meet or exceed the customer's expectations.
- Provides high quality communications, mentoring, coaching, problem-solving and training to staff and other co-workers at all levels as needed.
- Consistently makes decisions in an attentive and safe manner to ensure the safety and health of self and others.
- Utilizes LEAN concepts or other continuous improvement methodologies to ensure the most efficient operations, processes, and activities.
- Promotes and models the Company mission, vision and values through exercising sound and ethical business practices, championing all elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and providing high quality services and programs as they relate to clients, subcontractors, co-workers, suppliers, and the public.
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in construction management, project management or a related field. LEAN certification is preferred.
- Minimum 6-8 years of Continuous Improvement (CI), project management and project leadership experience with projects of all sizes. Minimum of 3 years in a leadership or program management role with responsibility to manage people, business plans, budgets, and key relationships.
- Experience with various types of improvement approaches to continuous improvement and Kaizen events. Extensive skills and experience teaching CI methodologies, applications, and standard practices. Thorough understanding of process management and the project life cycle. Strong process orientation.
- Experience with and thorough understanding of how to track and approach improving business, division, group, and organization-level metrics such as revenue, cost, margin, cash, service, and speed.
- Experience leading others through significant organizational change. Superior experience and skills in leading, managing and championing organizational change. Superior ingenuity, creativity, innovation, and analytical skills, teamwork, and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent communicator and collaborator, with the ability to clearly and concisely articulate ideas and concepts and the ability to build strong, diverse, working teams, cultures, and relationships at all levels, cross functionally, and within the community.
- Exceptional ability to influence and motivate and develop front line and senior level management, providing support to build high performing, highly engaged teams and providing organizational and leadership guidance through periods of significant transition.
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex problems with strategic critical thinking skills and detail orientation, and to drive appropriate, innovative, and practical solutions with self-initiative and sensitivity.
Excellent business acumen and experience collaborating with senior leaders in a high growth, process-oriented business setting. Demonstrated strategic business development, relationship building and client communication skills. - Experience and skills working with confidential data. Demonstrated high level of integrity and dependability. Aptitude to work independently under pressure, assess multiple demands and manage priorities.
Superior written, verbal, listening, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management and persuasion skills, and the ability to influence employees at all levels, including senior management.
Travel - Occasional travel may be required.
Benefits At ArchKey Solutions, our benefits package includes competitive health insurance options (medical, dental, and vision), a robust 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, paid time off and holidays, and access to wellness programs. Additionally, we offer professional development opportunities, tuition reimbursement, and employee assistance programs to support your growth and well-being. We ensure that our benefits are designed to promote the health, security, and work-life balance of our employees. Additional information is available at Archkey.com.
