Continuous Improvement Manager
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Tell us about your current or most recent job: where, your title, and how long you've been there (or when you left). Then tell us about one improvement you personally made to a line or a process there. What was it, and what were the numbers before and after?
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One you did yourself, not one you oversaw. Maximum response length: 3-4 sentences
Which of these have you done yourself? A job, an internship, the military, or your own project all count.
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Timed a changeover or a setup start to finish, with a stopwatch or video
Cut a changeover or setup time and kept it there
Built the tracker or spreadsheet a team used to log downtime or output
Led a root-cause investigation on something that kept failing
Ran a trial on a running line or process and measured the result
Written the business case for a piece of equipment
Got three or more quotes on a part or a project
Managed a capital project through install and startup
Trained or coached operators or leads on a method
Worked as an operator, mechanic, or lead on a production line
Programmed or changed a PLC, HMI, or sensor setup
None of these yet
Something else like these:
Outside a plant, which of these have you done?
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Cut the turnaround time on something that had to go back out fast: aircraft, trucks, a rental fleet, hotel rooms
Ran load-in or load-out for live events, tours, or productions
Ran expo or the pass in a busy kitchen
Cut ticket times or prep times in a restaurant
Reorganized a shop, bay, or stockroom so the work moved faster
Ran maintenance or turnaround planning in the military
Built the spreadsheet a team ran on
Coached a team to a result you could measure
None of these
Something else like these:
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Where the hours go
Tell us about a time you found out where the time was actually going in a process, and it wasn't where people thought. How did you find out, and what did you do with it?
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Maximum response length: 3-4 sentences
Scenario. Say two crews run the same changeover on the same line, and one of them is consistently 25 minutes faster. You have a stopwatch, a phone, and access to both crews. Walk us through your first week on it.
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Making it stick
Tell us about something that kept failing that you took to root cause. What kept happening, what did you find, what did you change, and how did you know a month later that it had held?
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Maximum response length: 3-4 sentences
Tell us about money you asked for, either got it or were turned down, any amount. What was the ask, what numbers did you put behind it, and what happened?
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Maximum response length: 2-3 sentences
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How you work
You need a lead on a tight schedule to run a changeover a different way, and they don't report to you. They tried it your way once and went back to theirs. What do you do?
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Maximum response length: 2-3 sentences
Think of the last problem you were handed that nobody fully understood yet. What did you do first? (There's no wrong answer.)
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Went and watched it happen a few times.
Pulled whatever data existed and looked for the pattern.
Asked the people who work on it every day what they thought it was.
Tried a small change and watched what moved.
Record a quick (1 to 2 minute) phone video, off the top of your head, and upload it here: Tell us about a change you made that didn't work. What did you try, how did you find out it wasn't working, and what did you do next?
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Work authorization & location
Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?
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Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for an employment visa (for example, H-1B)?
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Would this job mean moving to the Fort Worth area?
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No, I already live within commuting distance.
Yes, and I'd plan the move on my own.
Yes, and I'd want to talk about relocation help.
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This job is on-site in Fort Worth, with early starts and regular time on second shift. Have you checked your travel time here?
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Last things
Picture yourself two years into this job. Which sounds most like a good outcome?
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I'm running a bigger operations or engineering group here.
I'm the person who owns how fast and how steady every line in the building runs.
I've gone deep on the technical side: controls, automation, equipment.
I learned what I needed here and moved on to the next thing.
Haven't thought that far ahead. I need a good job now.
This group covers a few different kinds of work. Which parts do you most want to be doing? Pick up to three.
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Finding and cutting time on running lines
Root-cause work on equipment that keeps failing
Controls and automation: PLCs, sensors, HMIs
Writing and teaching the standard way to do a job
Managing capital projects and installs
Building the data and the reporting the plant runs on
Leading and developing a small team
Working with customers on new products
How did you find out about this position?
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