Continuous Process Improvement Senior Manager

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Your role at Clorox:

The Maintenance & Reliability Excellence Coach is responsible for driving the implementation and sustainability of maintenance best practices, asset care systems, reliability engineering processes, and digital maintenance capabilities across multiple manufacturing sites. This role partners with plant leadership, maintenance teams, and storeroom organizations to improve asset reliability, reduce reactive maintenance, optimize maintenance spending, and enhance overall manufacturing performance through standardized processes, training, and coaching.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in Preventive Maintenance (PM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM), SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), MRO storeroom management, Reliability Engineering, and Asset Care systems.

In this role, you will:

• Lead deployment of maintenance and reliability best practices across multiple manufacturing facilities to improve equipment performance and uptime.
• Coach plant and maintenance teams on Asset Care, Preventive and Predictive Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, RCM, TPM, and Work Management.
• Reduce reactive maintenance by strengthening planning, scheduling, defect elimination, preventive maintenance, and equipment reliability programs.
• Serve as an SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) subject matter expert, driving consistent processes for work orders, preventive maintenance, planning, scheduling, backlog management, and shutdown/turnaround planning.
• Improve SAP PM data quality and governance, including equipment hierarchies, functional locations, failure coding, and maintenance of master data.
• Provide expertise in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and MRO storeroom processes, including spare parts optimization, inventory accuracy, cycle counting, and critical spare identification.
• Partner with procurement and supply chain teams to improve spare-parts availability, reduce obsolete inventory, and optimize MRO inventory investment.
• Conduct maintenance assessments, GEMBA reviews, and process health checks to identify performance gaps and develop corrective action plans with site leadership.
• Build organizational capability through training, workshops, standardized work processes, documentation, coaching, and sharing best practices across manufacturing sites.
• Monitor and analyze key maintenance and reliability KPIs, including PM compliance, schedule compliance, planned vs. reactive work, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance cost, equipment uptime, spare-parts availability, and inventory accuracy to identify improvement and cost-reduction opportunities.

What we look for:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Supply Chain, Industrial Technology, or a related field, or 15+ years of relevant experience.
• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing maintenance, reliability engineering, maintenance systems, or maintenance leadership within a plant/manufacturing environment.
• Strong expertise in Preventive and Predictive Maintenance, Maintenance Planning & Scheduling, Reliability Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Asset Care, RCM, and TPM/Operational Excellence methodologies.
• Advanced working knowledge of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), including work management, preventive maintenance, equipment hierarchies, maintenance planning, backlog management, and data governance.
• Experience with SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and MRO/storeroom operations, including spare-parts optimization, inventory accuracy, critical spares, and material master data.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and influence cross-functional teams and leaders without direct authority, with strong facilitation, training, communication, continuous improvement, and data-driven problem-solving skills.

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Workplace type:

Hybrid - 3 days in the Alpharetta Office
50-70% Travel

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[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

–Zone A: $131,200 - $258,500

–Zone B: $120,300 - $237,000

–Zone C: $109,400 - $215,500

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

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