# Continuous Improvement Leader

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: Prairie Du Chien, WI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $164,612 - $201,193
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

As a Continuous Improvement Leader at 3M, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with innovative people around the world and make an impact by:

- Working with site leadership teams to set short-term strategic direction and operating plans for assigned areas of responsibility

- Developing site CI strategies for continuous improvement and establishing improvement objectives

- Solving complex problems requiring in-depth interpretation, analysis, and improvement approaches

- Driving financial improvement across the site/organisation

- Collaborating with front-line employees, support teams, department/function, supervisors/managers, and operations leaders to determine goals, direction, and approaches for improvement

- Teaching, mentoring, and developing others in their ability to establish Continuous Improvement as a primary mechanism to improve financial and operational performance

- Using CI Dashboard to manage, maintain, and communicate CI impact/performance to leadership at all levels

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A Bachelor's degree or higher

- Five years of experience in plant and/or operations leadership in a private, public, government, or military environment

- Three years of experience in developing and leading kaizen events in a private, public, government, or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

- Strong communication skills across all levels of the organisation

- Ability to develop and execute strategic plans

- Ten years of experience in plant operations, engineering, and/or maintenance functions

- Strength in leading and managing culture change

- Advanced data analysis and Microsoft Excel skills

- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt experience or certification

- Coaching and teaching skills

- Lean Manufacturing experience

- Demonstrated results using continuous improvement methodologies

The expected compensation range for this position is $164,612 - $201,193, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. 3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially.

## Skills

### Required
- continuous improvement
- strategic planning
- problem-solving
- communication
- leadership

### Nice to have
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Black Belt
- Lean Manufacturing
- Microsoft Excel
- coaching
- teaching

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