Also called: Continuous Improvement Director
Leads company-wide programs to make factories and offices faster, safer and less wasteful.
You coach plant managers on lean methods, review improvement projects across ten factories, and report savings to the company's executives. You travel a lot and spend much of your time persuading people to change how they work.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 14 years after high school. Bachelor's in industrial engineering plus 10+ years experience; Six Sigma Black Belt.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Industrial Engineering, Business Administration.
Growing about average. Not tracked separately; industrial production managers overall grow slowly.
Low risk for 10 years. AI finds savings in company data; setting strategy, winning over leaders and changing how thousands of people work stay human.
Classes: Business, Statistics, Speech or debate, Economics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-3051.
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