Continuous Improvement Manager

**Date**:May 9, 2025

**Location**: Barcelona, ES

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

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**Site Zona Franca**:
**Continuous Improvement Manager**

The main purpose for this position will be to facilitate the implementation of the ALPS Process in the site, manage the Continuous Improvement and develop the knowledge of the SITE in CI tools.

**About the Role**:
ALPS Foundations and Primary Processes:

- Facilitate and coordinate CI activities at site, such as Daily Operating reviews and CI workshops, meetings and reviews.
- Give support to the implementation areas.
- Serve as liaison among Implementation Task Forces to coordinate activities across the site and to share resources effectively.
- Coordinate the delivery of training content to shop floor work teams as per the Implementation Plan.
- Review and refine training content with the SSC (Site Steering Committee) and suggest improvements
- Train shop floor work teams and team leaders on best practice principles and concepts.
- Help in the assessment and evaluation of work teams to ensure that learning outcomes have been achieved.
- Coordinate scPrime Assessments in quarterly basis to serve as Report to SMU’s and BA CI Teams.

Profit Improvement Projects:

- Support the Project Leaders in the developments of the Profit Improvement Projects and serve as liaison between them and the Site Steering Committee.
- Manage high level Profit Improvement Projects.

Always complying with the AkzoNobel policies and HSE established rules.

**About You**:

- Experience in Continuous Improvement Programs or Improvement Projects.
- Lean6Sigma manufacturing programmes.
- Previous work experience in functions described.
- Good knowledge of HSE.
- Good knowledge of local manufacturing liquid processes.
- Good skills in people management.
- IT knowledge at user level and capacity to manage a data base, produce Reports and analyze data.
- ScPrime management.
- Fluent in English (spoken and written).
- ToT (train of trainers) certification.
- CIM Expert training and Certification.

**What we offer**:

- Join a growing multinational company.
- Stable project.
- Professional and personal development in a dynamic environment.
- Dining room benefits.
- Flexible remuneration.
- Access to training platform.
- Free parking and metro 5 minutes walking.
- Paddle/tennis and football court free to use on site.

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 46620