Continuous Improvement Leader, Multi-Site

Location: 

Allegan, MI, US, 49010

Perrigo Company is dedicated to making lives better by bringing Quality, Affordable Self-care products that consumers trust everywhere they are sold.  Help us do it.


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Description Overview

This is a great time to showcase your Work Systems expertise at Perrigo, a growing, global, consumer self-care company.  We are uniquely positioned for continued growth, with key focus on enabling operations and supply chain efficiencies to drive our growth strategy and business results.  To support this supply chain transformation, we seek a talent to implement our Perrigo Work System (PWS) at our seven West Michigan OTC facilities.  Reporting to the Vice President OTC Operations, this is a highly visible role, that will spotlight your talents to lead projects, collaborate and train operations staff, and guide the development of this critical program.

Scope of the Role

With an established work systems framework in place, you will guide the five key pillars of this program, infusing best practices and standards within our West Michigan manufacturing plants.  This role offers the opportunity to act as an ambassador and guide for plant leadership and staff on the PWS journey.  You will collect and coach best practices and standards around tools, processes, and cadences, to ensure our work systems are delivering improved outcomes and efficiencies on the production floor.  Supporting both batch and continuous manufacturing processes, this is a highly collaborative role acting as a driving force around score card management, accurate data collection, reviewing calculations and real time analysis.  Teams will seek out your leadership and training in the development of visual tools and problem solving as the work systems continue to roll out to additional facilities.  Your ability to lead with a continuous improvement mindset, collaborate with an attitude of training and development, and demonstrate an interest for both the work and people on the manufacturing floor, will be the foundation for your success.

This role requires onsite involvement and travel between the West Michigan plants based in Holland and Allegan.  Because we are building new efficiencies in our Supply Chain organization, this role will offer the opportunity to showcase your talents, and you would be well positioned in a growing organization for opportunity.

Experience Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field
  • Minimum eight years’ experience in Operations Production environment, using work systems
  • Experience with data analysis and interpretations for use in continuous improvement
  • Exposures to Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, work cells, and/or similar related processes
  • Skilled in Microsoft applications, including strong Excel skills desired
  • Strong communicator, with experience leading projects and/or teams
  • Determined, upbeat personality who enjoys a role with a high level of collaboration
  • Flexibility to occasionally visit three shifts in an operation

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We are seeking a diverse applicant pool to ensure the diversity of our team reflects the end consumers we serve through our self-care mission. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates our team’s differences. Individuals of all races, ethnicities, nationalities, ancestries, religious creeds, sexual orientations, genders, gender identities and gender expressions, national origins, ages, mental and physical abilities, familial status,’ veterans status’, military status’ and more are encouraged to apply. TOGETHER, we make lives better. #DIV


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