Regional Continuous Improvement Specialist

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.
***About the Role**:
**Lead continuous improvement initiatives across assigned sites or groups using Lean, Six Sigma, and 5S methodologies.**

**Drive operational excellence by enhancing safety, process efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.**

**Foster a culture of continuous improvement throughout the organization.**
**Key Responsibilities may include**:

- **Lead the implementation of Lean and Six Sigma principles to improve efficiency, eliminate waste, and enhance quality across the function.**:

- **Facilitate Kaizen and other continuous improvement (CI) initiatives, guiding cross-functional teams to solve complex problems and optimize processes.**:

- **Train and coach operational teams in CI methodologies, promoting effective use of Lean tools to drive improvement efforts.**:

- **Collaborate with Finance and Transformation teams to track cost reductions and performance improvements, documenting measurable impacts.**:

- **Develop and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for CI projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and timely achievement of results.**:

- **Share best practices across the organization, encouraging a collaborative environment to drive operational excellence and continuous learning.**:

- **Conduct regular audits and reviews to ensure compliance with CI initiatives and adherence to Brambles Global OpenX standards.**

**Major/Key Accountabilities**
- **Drive the implementation of innovative and creative ideas, methods, and process improvements for all CHEP SC/3rd Party Operations.**:

- **Promote operational excellence and a culture of continuous improvement, challenge the status quo persistently.**:

- **Serve as a change agent, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and driving actions across various levels of the organization to ensure added value and the effectiveness of implemented processes and tools.**:

- **Identify improvement opportunities, develop, and manage improvement plans, and lead improvement initiatives with SC champions and process owners. Identify gaps and design new processes, while improving safety performance metric, reduce waste, and save costs.**:

- **Develop analyses and models for projects and continuous improvement of processes, working collaboratively across functions to develop optimal low cost/high value solutions as prioritized by Supply Chain leadership.**:

- **Provide robust data analysis focused on cost reductions, process improvements, and strategic initiatives for the Canadian Operations and Supply Chain team.**:

- **Drive continuous improvement training program within CHEP / 3PL operations, in collaboration with plant champions and OPEX team, provide training and coaching to employees on lean and continuous improvement methodologies to execute improvement projects.**:

- **Analyze data using LEAN Six Sigma statistical data analysis methods.**:

- **Conduct problem-solving, root cause analysis, Gemba Walks, KAIZEN events, and CI improvement workshops.**:

- **Develop and analyze key performance indicators to monitor and track the impact and benefits of improvements in support of the company's objectives.**:

- **Implement and develop necessary procedures, tools, flow charts, templates and online tools and apps.**:

- **Assists plants with various operational issues, SAP, Procurement and Coupa.**

**Qualifications**
- **Post Secondary education**:

- **3-5 years relevant work experience**:

- **Lean Six Sigma certification**:

- **Good analytical skills**:

- **Good communication skills**:

- **Ability to travel to sites**

**Experience**
- **Worked in a process driven situation where success depends on adherence to deadlines**:

- **Inventory planning/control and logistics experience**:

- **Data analytics, Operations, Project Management**:

- **Safety Experience**

**Skills and Knowledge**
- **Good working knowledge of MS office (particularly Excel)**:

- **Self-motivated and works well under pressure**:

- **The ability to maintain a high level of accuracy with a high volume of output**

**Language**

**Essential: English Desirable: French**

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