Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Manager Job at EverDriven Technologies LLC
EverDriven is a rapidly growing, tech-enabled transportation management company, serving some of the most vulnerable children in our community. We exist to ensure that children with special needs receive safe, efficient, and cost- effective transportation to and from school. Our proprietary, best-in-class, technology solutions enable school districts and parents to easily plan, track and adjust each student’s trips, to and from school, and gives the student access to the educational experience they deserve. Every Trip. Every Day. If you’re someone who thrives in a mission forward, fast-paced, technology driven environment, we would love to talk to you about a fulfilling career at EverDriven.
Position Summary:
The Continuous Improvement Manager (six sigma black belt) is a change agent for product and process quality improvements. They work as business partners with the various EverDriven departments to meet and exceed department goals. They are responsible for identifying opportunities to deploy Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma tools and methods across the organization. They manage risk, set direction, and lead the way to achieve breakthrough improvements in quality.
In this role they will be responsible for managing complex, enterprise-wide initiatives to accomplish strategic organizational priorities. Expectations of the role include orchestrating and facilitating a supportive environment for cross-departmental teams to deliver desired outcomes. They will collaborate with business sponsors, product owners, other business and technology leaders, and teams of subject matter experts to ensure broad organizational readiness, effective risk management, and transparent and timely communications with stakeholders. This role actively partners with operations leadership to advance the project management practice, craft and deploy standard operating procedures, and champions agile and lean project management to improve enterprise agility.
Salary Range: 117k-127k/year, depending on experience
Office Location: Greenwood Village, CO - hybrid schedule
Responsibilities:
Project Management
- Facilitate working agreement and commitment to shared objectives with team of subject matter experts, ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities.
- Lead Continuous Process Improvement efforts at EverDriven in coordination with department leaders
- Apply established best-practices while working lean (eliminating waste), using strategies best-suited to the situational need, and being resilient and adaptable.
- Facilitate and support cross-departmental teams in aligning to deliver on desired outcomes.
- Support and/or create ways of working that enable the most effective, efficient and expeditious execution and resulting impact.
- Facilitate effective risk and issue management, to ensure challenges are anticipated and appropriate actions are taken.
- Lead change by demonstrating successful application of new tools and methods to improve product and process quality.
- Work in close collaboration with the Product, Training, and Operations functions to ensure delivery of high-quality, effective, and timely training
- Detect both obstacles and opportunities and respond to them as quickly as possible to produce desired outcomes.
- Build and maintain communication channels and methods to provide updates on progress to internal stakeholders timely and succinctly.
- Leverage data and other assessment mechanisms to facilitate enterprise level transparency and insights that are delivered in a consumable and meaningful format.
- Manage project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Effectively communicate to ensure stakeholders are aware of any project delays heading into key milestones.
Leadership
- Continually improve workflow and maximize efficiency by eliminating impediments to organizational readiness.
- Guide, navigate and support teams if initiatives are forced to adjust due to resource or priority changes.
- Turn troubled projects around and bring in appropriate resources as needed.
- Champion agile and lean project management practices and make continuous improvement a priority.
- Actively engage in approaches to enabling enterprise capabilities to deliver value incrementally, optimize throughput, and improve time to market.
- Lead projects from start to finish with an emphasis on quality and delivering on time.
- Leverages relationships cross-department to accomplish project and organizational goals.
Requirements:
- Required - Black Belt Six Sigma
- 5+ years of project management experience within operations units. Application of agile methodologies required.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills to lead large-scale initiatives through collaboration with internal departments.
- Exceptional critical thinking skills.
- Strong ability to work in a time sensitive environment while managing multiple, large-scale initiatives.
- Demonstration of engagement, flexibility, innovation, and willingness to challenge the status quo.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
- Virtual Doctor Visits with $0 Co-Pay
- Life Insurance (company paid)
- Short Term Disability Insurance (company paid)
- Long-Term Disability Insurance (company paid)
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Time to Volunteer
- Flex Spending Account (FSA)
- 401K Plan (with an awesome employer match!)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Discounts Program
Commitment to ESG:
Since 2006, EverDriven has remained committed to incorporating environmental, social and governance fundamentals into the framework of our internal and external culture. Today, ESG principles are part of the lifeblood of EverDriven and a driving influence that shapes not only our culture but all aspects of our day-to-day operations. We believe ESG principles enable us to more successfully achieve our mission to help every child have an equal opportunity to learn, grow, and succeed.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
EverDriven is a mission-centered, action-oriented company that honors diversity and inclusion. Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We strive to hire great people from a variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our cultural health stronger. In turn, our inclusive culture inspires our innovation and fosters a sense of belonging so we can continue to serve the most vulnerable populations with excellence.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity:
EverDriven Schools is deeply committed to building a workplace where inclusion is not only valued but prioritized. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.
Visit our website and learn more about us at www.EverDriven.com.
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