Plant Continuous Improvement Leader

Overview

Clorox is a company committed to growth – for our people and our brands. We operate guided by our purpose and values, with people at the center of everything we do. We believe that every one of us can make a positive impact on consumers, communities, and teammates.

Your Role at Clorox

This leader oversees the continuous improvement function and related activities in their plants. They ensure that their plant will successfully implement TRACC, work towards achieving plant CI objectives, and collaborate with other plant functions to support plant CI needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead TRACC implementation through Stage 3, ensuring strategy alignment across the business, customer-centricity, process integration, team ownership, adherence to tiered problem-solving methodology, data integrity, and risk management.
• Own leadership pilot (learning/modeling) activities at the sites.
• Own implementation plans and Stage progression.
• Own site loss and waste.
• Implement ITFs (Implementation Task Force) across the site.
• Drive PIPs (Process Improvement Projects) to eliminate losses.
• Review process improvements and provide recommendations for driving results.
• Develop a site improvement strategy.
• Offer Reliability Engineering and Constraint management coaching and implementation.
• Standardize training and documentation as the owner of key processes.
• Address issues based on root cause analysis of deviations in key performance indicators.
• Apply operations excellence to company processes.
• Inculcate the use of operations excellence tools and processes within plants to drive small to large-scale improvements that align with key business strategies.
• Stay connected and updated on current local and market trends in order to support better positioning through GME.
• Provide coaching and training to guide Manufacturing Operations in establishing and implementing operations excellence principles (TPM/Lean) to delivery throughput, cost, and inventory improvement.
• Create and own an integrated master plan for implementation, including leadership activities, maintenance systems, sustaining processes, and other loss elimination tools.
• Couch and mentor the entire site on integrating GME tools, including creating and maintaining Area of Excellence structures and sequencing applications.
• Facilitate training and improvement activities with leadership and operational resources.
• Connect Business, division, and local imperatives to the operations excellence work within the function.
• Facilitate training and improvement activities with leadership and operational resources.
• Communicate effectively, lead implementation, and analyze and review results.
• Develop operations excellence expertise in others.
• Maintain documentation related to key processes for database and web use.
• Take ownership of performance tracking, including coordinating and summarizing plant metrics and plans.
• As a member of the Plant Leadership Team, ensure consistency and standardization of best practices and tools.

Requirements

We seek a leader with:

• 10 years of manufacturing leadership experience.
• Deep knowledge and background in Continuous Improvement (CI) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) as well as CI-related topics and challenges and culture management.
• Elevates the knowledge of and sensitivity to CI-related topics and concerns into the broader business dialogue with plant leadership.
• Focuses on building a comprehensive continuous improvement culture across the plant.
• Synthesizes CI-related concerns into BU and plant manager communications.
• 5-10 direct reports, with a focus on coaching, training, and mentoring team members.
• Provides feedback that stretches individual development and fosters high-performing teams.
• Challenges and supports the team to explore and develop new and innovative approaches to achieve enterprise and plant-level goals.
• Experience with manufacturing execution systems (MES), pull systems, and data systems integration to drive efficiency.
• SAP experience preferred for seamless operational integration.
• Stakeholder engagement is preferred, while collaboration with peers is essential to success.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes wellbeing and provides flexibility for unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits, inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

Culture of Inclusion

We have a Culture of Inclusion that connects to our purpose and helps our people be the best versions of themselves, professionally and personally. This means building a workplace where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate in our Clorox community.