Senior Continuous Improvement Manager

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Fortive

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2016

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-03

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Logistics

Fortive is a global industrial technology company that specializes in delivering advanced healthcare solutions, intelligent operating solutions, and precision technologies. With a team of 18,000 employees, Fortive works on solving tough technical challenges, empowering safer, smarter, and more efficient industrial operations. The company emphasizes sustainability, integrity, and continuous improvement, striving for a future that's stronger, safer, and smarter. Fortive has been recognized as one of America's Most Responsible Companies, demonstrating its commitment to positive social and environmental impact.

📋 Description

• Serve as the Fortive Business System partner for assigned functions, sites, or priorities • Translate strategic priorities and performance gaps into focused improvement plans, measures, actions, and operating cadences • Prepare and lead complex Kaizen events from scoping and prework through facilitation, implementation, and sustainment • Lead multiple Kaizens concurrently and provide leadership for large-scale President’s Kaizen and Shingijutsu events • Define problems, scopes, objectives, teams, measures, customer outcomes, roles, risks, milestones, and expected results with sponsors and process owners • Guide root-cause analysis, decision-making, countermeasure development, ownership, and accountability • Lead structured problem solving using process data, customer information, and cross-functional perspectives • Apply FBS tools and connect improvement work to strategic, financial, operational, commercial, quality, and customer KPIs • Support policy deployment, daily management, business operations reviews, and improvement funnels • Coach leaders, Champions, Practitioners, FBSLs, and team members; build organizational capability and transfer ownership • Lead change across functions, sites, cultures, and time zones using virtual collaboration and visual management • Apply AI, automation, analytics, and digital tools to defined business needs

🎯 Requirements

• Eight or more years of progressive experience in continuous improvement, operations, product, service, commercial, customer-facing, or another relevant environment • Five or more years of hands-on experience applying Lean, FBS, or comparable continuous-improvement fundamentals • Demonstrated experience leading complex Kaizens from problem definition and prework through implementation and sustainment, including multiple concurrent events • Project-management capability within a Kaizen environment, including scope, milestones, ownership, risks, measures, stakeholder alignment, and implementation planning • Demonstrated ability to facilitate cross-functional problem solving, coach from frontline team members through L2 leaders, and influence without direct authority • Exposure to product, commercial, service, or customer-facing work sufficient to understand customer-centered challenges and commercial problem solving • Strong business acumen, communication, facilitation, adaptability, independent judgment, and self-directed learning • Aptitude for AI-enabled tools, analytics, automation, and digital collaboration • Ability to lead virtually and travel up to one week per month

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities • Learning and growth opportunities • Inclusive culture • Global team environment

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