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Continuous Improvement Manager - Great Lakes Region

ODW Logistics
Kenosha, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 1/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/7/2025

ODW Logistics is a people-focused and customer-driven third-party logistics (3PL) provider committed to delivering seamless end-to-end supply chain solutions. Our extensive range of services include supply chain design and innovation, warehousing, efficient distribution and fulfillment, freight brokerage, transportation management, and specialized e-commerce fulfillment solutions.

Essential Responsibilities

  • Identify and deliver service improvement activities across the business by thinking innovatively and employing various methodologies
  • Partner with business stakeholders and several 'lean champions' to build a continuous improvement environment and support an evolving program
  • Acknowledge trends and guide the delivery of better value and greater efficiency for total quality management
  • Lead lean / process improvement-based workshops to drive new ideas and solutions
  • Ensure project objectives are identified, reported and managed and that post implementation reviews achieve successful delivery to ensure improvements can be made for future projects
  • Elicit requirements and conduct staff interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, site visits and workflow / business analysis to drive process change
  • Monitor project risks to foresee potential problems and proactively suggest solutions
  • All other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

These may be representative, but not all-inclusive of those commonly associated with this position. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet every qualification.

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, quality management, continuous improvement, supply chain or equivalent education / work experience preferred
  • Minimum accredited Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt preferred
  • 5 - 7 years of proven continuous improvement analytical experience from a similar role, including project management and business analysis preferred
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools preferred
  • Capabilities

  • Adaptable and partner-minded
  • Ability to facilitate and lead teams through coaching, training, and empowerment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Innovative project management skills
  • Time management and planning skills
  • Physical and Mental Requirements

    While performing the duties of this job, the employee requires the ability to :

  • Hear, read and comprehend, write and communicate
  • Continuously grasp and handle objects and work around moving machinery
  • Focus (with or without corrective lenses) to see close and distant, along with depth perception capabilities
  • Our VALUES

    Pillared on our core values, we strive for collective growth and reaching our highest potential. We are dedicated to helping our teammates experience fulfillment through their individual strengths and innovative ideas.

    Respect | Give and it will be given.

    We treat others as we want to be treated. We cannot control events, but we can control our response. We build respect through honesty, fairness, and integrity.

    Trust | Earned over time.

    We do what we say we will do. We are clear, direct, and honest. We seek to understand and be understood. Team | Accomplish more together.

    We work hard toward a common goal. We desire to make everyone successful. We achieve the best results as a team.

    Opportunity | Realize your potential.

    We believe all people have significance and potential. We understand work and life are integrated and we value both. We strive to make an impact in the world around us.

    Equal Opportunity Employer

    ODW Logistics is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at ODW Logistics are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. ODW Logistics will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

    DISCLAIMER : The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, success profile characteristics or qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Management retains the discretion to add to or change the duties of the position at any time.

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