.Req ID: 120246 Remote Position: YesRegion: Americas Country: USA State/Province: New Hampshire City: Remote Employee US SummaryWe are seeking an EMS Continuous Improvement Director for a Global/Regional role.Individual ContributorResponsibilitiesDetermine and implement a Continuous Improvement strategy for the company and region.Drive CI across the Enterprise.Improve employee engagement, collaboration, and maturity in CI performance.Ensure full deployment of the Celestica Continuous Improvement roadmap by applying Lean Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing for improving both operational and non-operational processes in the region.Create formal methodologies for building, executing, and driving process improvement initiatives, and sustaining CI programs.Manage and develop the CI Regional team/trainers to lead the CI culture within the region.Work with key business stakeholders to build a CI environment and culture to support a change management program.Collaborate with CI regional and global CI organization for continuous improvement execution following the CI framework and Celestica Operating System.Drive the adoption and measurement of the Systematic CI Framework Standards, including key system elements like CI Committee and Management Gemba, while reflecting on and enhancing the Standards.Provide hands-on leadership and motivation to site and regional personnel to implement Lean and Six Sigma best practices.Ensure that senior leaders participate in kaizen.Lead and collaborate with site's productivity projects related to Continuous Improvement and support the project funnel in the Cost Productivity Roadmap.Drive the CI culture by helping to develop and implement the CI training programs and lead the training deployment, focusing on the flow of value to customers, both internal and external.Lead and facilitate process improvement-based CI workshops to drive ideas and solutions to achieve the site's objectives.Provide the annual CI activities execution plan, take the lead on executing activities, and performance enhancement to accomplish business objectives.Lead the sharing, deployment, and recognition of best practices.Knowledge/Skills/CompetenciesDemonstrated experience of identifying the need for and implementing process improvements that resulted in significant gains in operational efficiencies. Proven project management and organizational skills and expertise. Strong professional acumen and effective written and verbal communication skills.Physical DemandsDuties of this position are performed in generally good conditions with occasional exposure (10% - 33%) to noise, odours, dust, drafts, chemicals, operating machinery, temperature extremes, hazardous substances, etc.Duties may require regular periods of sitting and/or standing and sustained visual concentration on observing operations. Repetitive manual movements (e.G